Walker's
Haute Route - Phase 2 - 29 August to 7 September 2006
Tuesday 29 August - Travel to Argentiere
The most stressful part of today's journey was finding Paul
and Hilda's house in West Hallam, between Derby
and Nottingham. I bombed down the A50 to Nottingham
before realising I should have turned towards Derby!
Anyway, I arrived in 2¾ hours which should have been 1¾
hours, and Paul got Hilda and me to East
Midlands Airport
in plenty of time to check in on easyJet's Airbus A319 flight to Geneva - 13:40 to 16:30.
But we left late at 14:00 and arrived early at 16:15, in plenty of time for our
Alpybus transfer to Argentiere, in pouring rain.
UK
weather had been warm and showery, so we disembarked at Hotel (Gite) Belvedere
at 19:10 in our t-shirts in pouring rain. But it had been an easy journey. Here
we joined Sue E, her twin sister Caroline, Gaynor, and Dave Lonsdale (all of
whom had arrived earlier and walked in purist fashion in rain from Chamonix), for a short but pleasant evening.
Tuna and potato stew followed Greek salad and preceded apple
slice cake, all washed down with plenty of red wine and followed by a game of
Uno.
So we went to bed before 10 pm (9 pm in the UK).
Note: This 'phase 2' trip was
attended by those on phase 1 in 2005, except for Betty. Dave E arrived a couple
of days later, and Hilde and Caroline just came on phase 2.
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2 comments:
I'm easily confused!
Phase 1: Zermatt to Grimentz
Phase 2: Chamonix to Grimentz
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