Tim actually made it to Grenoble!

By , July 29, 2010 4:54 am

Tims only experience with public transport was him getting a train to Plymouth about 10 years ago.  Unfortunately though he was meant to be going to Portsmouth so we were all a little worried that he wouldn’t arrive up in Grenoble today!  Well he did and here’s a photo to prove it! – well done tim!  

La variante difficile

By , July 25, 2010 8:57 am

Yesterdays via ferrata branches quite early on and you have to choose between a peu difficile and extremement difficile.. today I was feeling brave and chose the hard variant, apparently one of the hardest in France.  Overhanging for most of the route, the signs describe it as tres athletic with pas echappe so I was more than a little apprehensive, particularly [...]

Via Ferrata Cascade de l’Oule

By , July 24, 2010 8:46 am

Famille Halliday/Chaffat have safely arrived at our pre Ailfroide base in Bernin to visit Alex’s parents Gabriel et Marina.  Unfortunately Alex is on some strange antibiotic at the moment that makes her face react badly to sunlight and swell up like that ginger freak Rocky from some Cher movie years ago so I dont’ have a partner until Tim arrives [...]

The Marin Trail Again

By , July 14, 2010 5:45 am

I couldn’t let a little crack in my carbon fibre frame keep me at home so I went to do the Marin trail in Wales again – this time with my Dad.  He did fairly well considering his list of handicaps and I think he fell off only twice.. at least he didn’t break any [...]

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