Europe 2017
Read More23/09/2017
We made it back to Geneva airport with 45mins to spare before Neil's plane left! It was quite stressful following the terrible instructions to find the French part of the Geneva airport to drop off the car... but we made it. Neil flew home and I took a bus to Chamonix to meet Claire. Here the glacier near the Aguille du Midi also shows how much snow was around!We decided to go out for tea again. We'd been recommended a restaurant in La Rozier by our Gite owners, so we made a booking after our walk and came home to get washed and changed. Good thing we booked! It was delicious food and by the time we left there was not a spare table in the restaurant!
Pre-entre seen here is an eggplant purée with goats cheese froth and walnut crush. Tiny but delicious!A view of where we went on our walk. We went along the bottom of the cliffs the left side of this picture, then crossed over the top and came back along the bottom of the cliffs on the right. We saw ancient ruins, a natural spring, some vultures and quite a few other people. Seems hiking is very popular around here.
I ordered caramel praline something. It was like a very light mouse on a thin biscuit base drizzled in caramel sauce. It was amazing!
Pre-desert we had a cheese tasting plate. We had a choice of five, but looked a little confused with the choices so the waitress gave us a piece of each. The Rochfert was a mouldy and very salty cheese, Neil didn't like that one, or the goats cheese (Heather, you would have lived it!), but the other three were very nice and tasty.After lunch we headed over to do a route right up the middle of the wall under the vase. It had a strange name, Les Femmes et les grimpeurs d'abord. It was a 3-pitch 3-star 5c and looked a lot more popular than the first route! It was a classic and while steep, had some big holds and it made you feel like a million dollars climbing in such a spectacular location! Not a bad route to finish the day on.
20/09/2017
Went sport climbing at the Tarn yesterday, but didn't get any photos. Favourite route of the day was Tresor du Zebra (I've interpreted that to mean Zebra Treasure!) a beautiful Pickett and steep 7a.
Today we're back at la Jonte. First route was the left trending diagonal crack with the bush on it called La Demande Aveyronnaise. It was 4 pitches of trad and bolts, and supposedly got three stars in the Rockfax guide. We've done La Demamde in Verdon, so this was the La Demand of this area (Aveyronnaise). It was airy, but the rock was a little average in places, and it actually wasn't that good. We were quite disappointed!