This is nuts. We go home tomorrow, back to merry old Englandshire in an EasyJet flying toothpaste tube/cattle transporter. Our flight leaves at 4pm, but air travel tradition dictates we arrive two hours early for check in (a thirty second process, naturally). To make things even more tedious, our bus from Chamonix leaves at 7am - yes, in order to arrive ready for the flight that leaves at 4pm, I have to leave at 7 in the morning. And naturally that means waking up at 6am.

And some people actually go travelling for fun.

After last night’s torrential downpour we woke this morning to thick cloud covering the valley. The sun was doing its best to burn it off, but by 10am it was still there (and still is now) so rather than doing a high level walk, we chose to do a low one.

After spending half an hour watching people climbing on the rocks just down the road, we ambled along the forest paths towards Les Houches, a village at the start of the Chamonix valley. The walk was fairly sedate, mostly flat and went through the forest on the side of the valley, which caused my GPS some trouble, as can be seen from the track.

Today’s GPS log is, again, included after the break, and once again LJ users should click the title to see it correctly.

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