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26th January 2018 Hiking - Walking: Evian and Thonon, France Wind Direction: Wind Stength: Surf / Sea State: Air Temperature: Sea Temperature: Weather: Max Speed: Distance Covered: Friday 26th January – Relax, travel and walk **** cloudy with rain :( Again, the only vehicle in the carpark at the Crozet ski station and had a good night, mild too but woke to rain and low cloud:( That put an end to any plans for heading up the mountain so had a lay-in reading and listening to the rain on the van roof:) Then late breakfast and headed off at midday and because Geneva is in Switzerland where you have to pay a toll the road in France takes you miles out of your way! We saw yet another Intersport with a liquidation sale so we stopped to see if there were any bargains but nothing so crossed the road for bread at the supermarket! We carried on passing loads of fruit orchards with several wet buzzards on the ground looking rather fed-up! We filled up with diesel a fraction more expensive down this way and then for the second time on this trip our oil warning light came on !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :( We stopped at another supermarket and bought 5 litres of oil for the price a litre cost us near the M25! Will check the oil levels tomorrow and top up, hopefully it will have stopped raining! Getting hungry now so headed to Evian on the banks of Lac Lemon to check if they had any driftwood sculpture’s and parked next to the long prom at the far end of town near the marina for French bread baguettes. We then walked back towards the town along the pretty prom with cloud shrouded mountains all around and a light drizzle. There were a few large driftwood creatures but nowhere near as many as a Christmas a couple of years ago! There are loads of birds on the still waters of the Lac mainly Grebes, coots, gulls, Goosanders and Tufted Ducks, the highlight was watching a Grebe fishing under the crystal-clear water! We then turned up into the town and saw a sign to the Evian source which we found and loads of people were filling up their bottles – mineral water for free, can’t be bad, shame we didn’t have a bottle! Back at the van it is just a short trip back to our overnight spot at Thonon by Lac Leman for cuppa and cake. After Marks and Spencer braised beef, thankyou Mary we checked out the ‘Save Windsurfing at The Dip Campaign’ which seems to be going well. The rain has at last stopped and hopefully some good skiing weather is on the way. tomorrow we head up to Morzine, buy provisions for everyone flying into Geneva and look forward to a week in the mountains with family including both our boys, the first time for eight years! Should be good:) Photo Gallery Here Saturday 27th January – walk, travel and shop *** cloudy but sun late afternoon. Nice night by Lac Leman at Thonon but woke to a cloudy day. Practical start, top up engine oil and camper water. Then go for a lovely walk on the Lac prom past loads of sleeping Grebes to the marina and pretty square full of plane trees. Then to the fishermen’s cottages with their drying nets and fish traps, finally making it to the end of the ferry jetty with resting cormorants and heron! Back to the van and off to the busy Lidl where we have fun paying provisions for a couple of days for our ski party that is flying into Geneva. We get a huge trolley full for 147 Euro’s! and then set off up the mountain gorge to Morzine following the river we white water rafted in when the boys were young. Mag had already phoned the apartment agent to arrange us to pick up the keys and after a couple of circuits of the town we found it. With keys in hand it was only a short distance up the hill to the apartment which was very nice, perfect position near the lift with fantastic views, well done Hannah top choice:) The only downside was we were on the top floor and it took several trips up to get the van unloaded. All we had to do then was have a late lunch and wait for the others to arrive. I got a bit nervous waiting as the time ticked by so walked down to the main road to await their arrival. After several near miss accidents at a mini roundabout they turned up in a large coach and I was relived to see them safe and sound! After all the cases were up in the apartment Mag heated up the pizzas and it was great to catch before we all went to bed knackered. |
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