The end of another working week in the Alps and I barely stopped. As it happened, things tailed off as I was tidying up on the Saturday so it looks like I timed things well. Over the week, I spent a couple of nights based over at Belle Plagne in our “flagship” hotel. I have [...]

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Erm, yeah. It was worse than it looks. Or better. Depends on how you look at it. Heading back from the resorts I’d been working at for a few days, I was maybe 15km away from Chamonix. There’s a short cut that can be taken down the side of one of the hills on the [...]

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OK, after mulling and plotting and planning, I’ve booked some flights. And sorted a visa. My current schedule is to fly out to Bangkok on the 27th of January on Etihad airlines via Abu Dhabi. Their return flight was only £402 – less than £50 more expensive than the cheapest single flight I could find! [...]

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I don’t mean particularly expensive. They just often don’t make sense. I’m looking at booking my next flight from London to wherever. I’m checking out flights to Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Australia and Japan (Osaka and Tokyo). The prices of these trips, on the whole, make sense when you stack them against each other mile for [...]

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Just for a change, I awoke having had virtually no sleep. I tidied my room as best I could and went to hand the key back to Andy. Very kindly, he offered me to help myself to the buffet breakfast so I nabbed a yoghurt and a drink before catching the next train up to [...]

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I’m not one to shy away from a walking challenger. I pretty much blasted both Paris and Rome in two days each on foot. And then there was that little stroll from Monaco to Newcastle in 2007. So today I took on board the guidance I’d been given by my hosts and pinpointed the things [...]

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As I said in the last post, I got no sleep. Around 4:25, I picked up my stuff and walked from Gulla’s to the long-distance bus station, maybe 10 minutes’ walk away. It was easy to then just jump onto the first airport service and drop into a fairly deep slumber. I awoke as we [...]

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Just a quickie. I will update with full details of the last 2 days in Iceland when I get the chance, but I’m currently safely ensconced in the Copenhagen Central Library using their free wi-fi. I’m off to meet a fellow couchsurfer in 30 minutes, and my host at 9:30 tonight. I think I will [...]

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There wasn’t a whole lot left of the capital for me to see, so I had a bit of a lie in (I needed it!) and met Elfa to see the last few things. We walked up to the church which this time was open. It’s very plain inside compared to just about any other [...]

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The weather was particularly unsavoury this morning. As I left the apartment, the wind threatened to remove my cap for me and – not wanting any Indiana Jones-like near-escapes grabbing it from in front of an approaching truck – I gave up and took it off. Definitely the windiest and coldest I’d been since I [...]

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