I’s back from my trekking! Me and my family (Mum, Dad and D) went off to a chalet in the French Alps – a little hamlet called Brairet (4 chalets and a farm) near a village called Sixt – Fer á Cheval, near a town called Samoëns which all in all is near Geneve and Lyons. Fer á Cheval is “horseshoe” in French and means the horseshoe shaped mountains around the valley. The people were lovely – not many spoke English and we don’t speak very good French but they were very appriciative of our efforts!
As an ultra fast rundown – we loafed, walked up a torrent (several times), shopped in Sixt and Samoëns, went to markets, got a suntan, got rained on torrentially (oft in the same day), drove along the Route de Grande Alpes, visited alpine lakes, saw the Cascade de Rouget (waterfall of the red mullet), sat in a hammock for hours, took a ride in a chairlift, parascended (woot!), took a tour train around Samoëns, visted Yvoire and Nernier – two medieval towns that are remarkably unchanged, walked around the Gorge du Port du Diable (Gorge of the Bridge of the Devil), saw a massive thunderstorm, star gazed and saw the biggest shooting stars we’ve ever seen – Mum and D saw their first shooting stars, walked the mountain trail to Sixt, bought souvenirs and a HUGE quantity of alcohol, had a powercut on the last night and played cards every night – including during the power cut by candle light.
For a visual tour…. please excuse the copyright signs on the pics – I’m a suspicious mare 😀 Not of you lot of course – of the unscrupulous people who venture into my blog. Suffice to say, I have enough pictures (117 to be precise) to keep me web designing for a few years!
The Fer á Cheval from our chalet – now you see it, now you don’t!
The torrent, 20m from the right of our chalet.
Samoëns in full flower – they really like their flowers around here…
…but not as much as they like their cows. That one’s for Sonata 😉
And this one is for the Frog! From a lake up a mountain of all places.
Gorge du Pont du Diable – as viewed mid wander through it.
Cascade du Rouget – I worked out what “du” meant this holiday and how it was different to “de” – witness my use of it!
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