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Mark Prior

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 Overlanding the Americas
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Skiing Wrap Up: All good things must come to an end fromatob.org/2023/04/10/skii…

Skiing Wrap Up: All good things must come to an end

As the proverb goes, all good things must come to an end and our time in the Alps has drawn to a close. After being starved of snow throughout February, March has brought better conditions with som…

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Les Deux Alpes fromatob.org/2023/03/24/les-…

Les Deux Alpes

Ski passes at the larger French resorts are very expensive. It costs €56 per day to ski in Alpe D’Huez but fortunately if you are in resort for more than a week there is a season pass available whi…

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Alpe d’Huez Town fromatob.org/2023/03/14/alpe…

Alpe d’Huez Town

Alpe d’Huez from Above In order to keep our costs down we had booked most of our accommodation for our trip to the Alps in the town of Allemond in the valley below Alpe d’Huez. But for the mi…

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Global Warming fromatob.org/2023/03/12/glob…

Global Warming

One of the reasons we chose Alpe D’Huez for skiing was its high altitude, with slopes as high as 3300m. We wanted a snow sure resort that would guarantee snow for our whole trip. This turned out to…

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Skiing fromatob.org/2023/02/28/skii…

Skiing

We’ve always loved mountains and one of our favourite things to do in the mountains in winter is to ski. So before we started travelling we decided that we wanted to spend some time in the Alps in …

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Winter Time in The Lakes fromatob.org/2023/01/28/wint…

Winter Time in The Lakes

Following beautiful cold but clear days in December, the first couple of weeks of January in the Lake District were absolutely terrible – near constant heavy rain coupled with low cloud and very po…

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The UK Lake District fromatob.org/2023/01/29/the-…

The UK Lake District

When we were telling our friends what our plans were for the Winter the universal response was along the lines of “You’re nuts!”. Well no one has ever accused us of making sensible decisions. So on…

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Travelling In Turkey fromatob.org/2023/01/24/trav…

Travelling In Turkey

Entry Into Turkey For UK and EU citizens entry into Turkey is possible on a visa free tourist basis for up to 90 days within any 180 day period. So it couldn’t be easier. However US citizens are re…

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Coastal Bound fromatob.org/2023/01/10/coas…

Coastal Bound

The drive back to Antalya from Cappadocia is over 500km so we decided to take a few days to drive back along the coast. Day one of this journey was to get down to the coast which was a drive of jus…

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Cappadocia fromatob.org/2023/01/03/capp…

Cappadocia

Balloons over Goreme Cappadocia had been at the top of the list of things we were excited about when we planned our trip to Turkey.  Fortunately we were not disappointed as Cappadocia lives up…

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Ephesus and East fromatob.org/2022/12/26/ephe…

Ephesus and East

The main reason for heading West along the coast was to end up at our most Northern Point – Ephesus. This is the most complete classical metropolis in Europe and was a major city with over 250k inh…

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Along the Coast fromatob.org/2022/12/18/alon…

Along the Coast

We managed to drag ourselves away from beach life in Çirali and headed west towards the harbour town of Kaş (pronounced Cash). Theatre at Myra However on the way we stopped at Myra ,which is a city…

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Turkey: Summer Revisited fromatob.org/2022/12/11/turk…

Turkey: Summer Revisited

We left Chamonix at the end of October and after spending a few days in the cold and what seemed like constantly raining London we headed for warmer climes and hopped on a plane to Antalya in Turke…

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Emosson Dam fromatob.org/2022/11/05/emos…

Emosson Dam

One of the largest hydro-electric projects in the alps, the Emosson Dam, is situated just outside the Chamonix valley in Switzerland. The border between France and Switzerland was actually moved to…

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Les Pionniers: Ice Hockey fromatob.org/2022/11/05/les-…
Les Pionniers: Ice Hockey

Les Pionniers: Ice Hockey

Les Pionniers are Chamonix’s professional ice hockey team which compete in France’s top league, Ligue Magnus. They play at their central Chamonix home  –  Centre Sportif Richard Boz…

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Grand Balcon Sud, Lac Blanc and Lacs des Cheserys fromatob.org/2022/10/30/gran…

Grand Balcon Sud, Lac Blanc and Lacs des Cheserys

Brevant Lift with Glacier Bossons in Background Having  talked about the south side of the Chamonix valley in a previous post, the North side, although different, is equally stunning.  Th…

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The Glaciers of Chamonix fromatob.org/2022/10/23/the-…
Alpine Swimming fromatob.org/2022/10/18/alpi…

Alpine Swimming

Despite arriving in the Alps in September the temperature in the valley was still almost 30c so we decided to spend a couple of days relaxing at the beach in between hiking days. Given that the nea…

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