Day Four travelling to Charmonix

Day Four Well time to leave Paris. It had been a wonderful city to us barring one or two incidents, but then again what city doesn’t have one or two incidents. We had an early train to catch so we had to leave at the crack of dawn, Jono after a night of having a sore stomach needed to be woken up, so I took a walk down to his room and got him out of bed. Then I rushed back to my room to get packed and ready. After packing as fast as we could we walked back over to jono’s room to see if he was finished, when he opened the door he was still in his boxers and looked surprised that we were there at all. We told him we would meet him down stairs and. Miraculously he arrived in ten minutes just after we had settled. We set off for the station early in the morning the sun had not even come up. So it was probably around 0630. We had a about a kilometer walk, which carrying 35kg bags was not the greatest. As we walked through the streets we saw some party animals returning home from a night out. Very drunk looking and struggling to maintain a straight line. One of then made a funny noise toward me as I passed which immediately put me into stressing about Lyndsay mood, but they were just two kids having a laugh. Jono on the other hand had a beer bottle thrown in his direction, but what can you expect on a Sunday morning in Paris.

We arrived at our station far too early. The blame for this was put onto me. So we had to wait for two hours till our train arrived. Fortunately this was marked properly on electronic screens and an information lady was able to assist us in explaining where we needed to be. Then the long train ride to St Gervais, which allow us a great opportunity to get to see the French country side. At St Gervais we were briefly joined by a Korean girl who took a liking to Jono although I think she was just happy to talk to someone English. The mountains and towns were beautiful all covered in snow. All the houses had at least 6inches of snow covering them which made the town look like a fairy tale.

Finally we arrived at our destination! The most beautiful little town, now just to find the hotel. I asked a bus driver if he spoke English and he responded with do you speak French? This didn’t help me much but he seemed to be very helpful as he told us our hotel was only a 10 minute walk. We opted to get a taxi anyway as we had the bags with us. 5mins and 18 euros later we were at our hotel. Thank goodness we had opted for the taxi, I doubt we would have found it walking the streets randomly. The hotel was stunning. As opposed to our so called three star in Paris this three star felt like a four star and we felt very comfortable and very happy. We then walked the town to go and fetch our ski’s and snowboard. Which was quite an excursion as we took a few wrong turns and ended up walking the whole town flat. This did give us a nice opportunity to explore the place however and it was tremendously enjoyable. We fitted our boots which was very quick for Lyndsay and Jono but due to my enormous and abnormal feet it took about an hour to fit my boots, with theski shop having to go backwards and forwards fetching more and more boots. When I finally got a pair that was comfortable the guys at shop looked stunned as if they had never given out a pair of boots that big. I was stoked as I got to wear brand new ski boots which looked really cool.

We then needed to find some food. We found a lovely pizza restaurant where we all enjoyed a good meal. Jono and I both had a pizza and Lyndsay enjoyed probably the best cheese fondu I have ever tasted. Belly’s full we decided to call it a night as we were all pretty bushed and very excited for the next day. But before that we got back to the hotel and decided to make use of the Jacuzzi, we enjoyed glass room surrounded by snow covered ground whilst in a warm Jacuzzi. Then it was time for bed.