Day 71: Ice

Date: Saturday 7^th June
Staying: Mer de Glace – Chamonix, France
Distance Travelled: 0 Miles
Song of the day: 7 Days in Sunny June - Jamiroquai

I have been looking forward to our visit to Chamonix for a long time. Ever since watching a world cup skiing event on Eurosport that showed what a stunning part of the world this is. Unfortunately, it has been shrouded in cloud since we arrived, but we weren’t gonna let something like that stop us.

We took a stroll into Chamonix (about 1.5km’s from the campsite along nature paths) and to Laurie’s great satisfaction, walked straight into a market in the town square (I am sure you can picture the look of complete resignation on my face as I realise I will be following her around for an hour and a half and then have to carry everything for the rest of the day). After an hour and a half (told ya) of looking through stalls selling roughly the same sort of thing, we headed into the main shopping street. Being out of season, most shops were closed, but, it is a picturesque little town, so was worth a look.

After lunch, we headed to the train for ‘Mer De Glace’, in the vain hope that the weather would clear enough for us to see it. It wasn’t looking promising on the way up, as we got clouded in, and when we arrived, things didn’t look any better. Not being able to admit defeat, we started down the path to the glacier (the cable car was closed), and as we were just discovering the path had been blocked off after 300m, the cloud cleared enough for us to have a fantastic view. It was well worth the effort. Now here’s hoping the weather does the same tomorrow when we are going up to over 3800m.