Welcome aboard EasyJet flight Screaming Baby 592 from Liverpool to Geneva. On your flight today you will spend more time waiting in the airport than on the plane itself. Upon reaching Geneva, remember we have landed in Switzerland and not France.

After failing to buy a new mobile phone we zoomed off to the airport, got on our plane full of shouting children and were transported to Geneva. From there we caught a bus to Chamonix.

The hostel is quite basic, but has all the essentials - warmth, lighting, electricity, water and free Wifi conveniently provided by some wifi transmitter nearby. My N810 fails to connect consistently, but my dad’s Eee PC is quite happy.

I’ve just managed to extract the GPS route from my GPS and have it on my N810, unfortunately I can’t upload it to any mapping sites because it takes too long and the connection dies. Guess I’ll have to keep them until I get back and upload then.

Chamonix is an interesting place, containing people from pretty much every nationality we’ve got. There’s lots of places to eat and buy tourist crap from, and a giant muddy river running through the middle. Supposedly there’s some large hills or something around it, but all I saw was cloud

Tomorrow we’re off for a walk up something high and steep if the weather is good. I’m charging my camera batteries as we speak. I hope I have enough memory space to store all the photos! I think I have about 7GB of space spread over all the various memory cards I own, and with this Eee I can copy things around.

Assuming this wifi holds out, I’ll continue posting