The best of Geneva – a hidden secret you may not know about…

Geneva like many Swiss cities is picture perfect with stunning architecture and flower boxes galore. It’s a fun place to hang out for a couple of days and spending time at Bains des Paquis was a highlight. It’s not on too many of the ‘must do’ lists, but it’s on mine. It was a scorching hot summers day […]

Getting inside the Mer glacier – France’s biggest

On my day off while walking Mont Blanc in Chamonix, we travelled from France to Italy in a cable car – The best cable car ride in the world. But if that wasn’t impressive enough I also had my first ever experience in an ice cave beneath the Mer de Glace (glacier). The railway to the glacier was built in the […]

The best cable car ride in the world

When you are in Chamonix whether you are walking Mont Blanc or not you must make a trip up the Aiguille du Midi, the highest point accessible by cable car in the Chamonix Valley, then keep going all the way to Italy. Get yourself to the base station of the Aiguille du Midi cable car in the centre of […]