September 13th St gervais to Chamonix 28km

Gorgeous day to travel to the ultimate destination of Chamonix. Felt a bit nervous as it stood to reason it was going to have some hills. Not a great start when we cycled onto a motorway again!!!!! Too easy to do it at times. Dave had to lift the bikes over barriers twice good job his side is much better :/!!! Once on right road, yeah some pretty steep climbs but manageable, must be getting pretty strong in the old legs. Amazing views of Mont Blonc at each turn so made it all the easier. 3 hours of cycling and then we arrived!!!!! Good that immediately it did have the great feel that we remembered previously. Still buzzing with people and the sun shining.

Searched out sno-station but Siobhan not there but advised to pop back later and some-one else there. Time for coffee and then popped back and chatted to a guy called Rick who got really excited when Dave mentioned his trade. He spoke to Siobhan and  arrangement to meet tomorrow. If this works accommodation could be included. Then we went to accommodation place, where as well as sussing out potential places if required more job offers in potential. So all good really. We then went to Youth Hostel but  expensive for what it offered so back under canvas for us. Quite a eclectic mix of people here, bit of a political conversation going on as i type, luckily the Israeli/Palestinian question being handled by an earth politician :-)