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Now in Vizzavona after doing 2 days walking in 1 day . Ascent of 1170 m and descent of 2090m all in a distance of 22k no wonder my knees ache . My reward is a night in the I laricci hotel and a three course meal .tomorrow am easy day according to the french man we met at dinner . Now for a good nights sleep

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Today was a hard day for me started off with a long steep bouldery climb up to the highest point on GR 20 the views of the lakes were fab. We then had to cut across the mountain which involved alot of climbing and bouldering before a stony and wet decent to the refuge de petra piana . I was slow today so geoff raced a head of me all day but i will get him back one day .

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Now at hotel castel di vergio an easier day than the hell of the Cirque de la solitude which is the most scary thing i have ever done .enjoyed skinny dipping in many of the rock pools today. second night in tent . Thanks for all your comments and i got a few pics up on flickr.

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Now in hotel le chalet after 3 days walking along Gr 20. Its been fab so far loved the Spasimata bridge and walking along the slabs was good fun. Showers are cold and last nights was almost al – Fresco too . Hard day tomorrow with the Cirque de la solitude hope i get on ok with it so far it has been fab walking with fab scenery second day was the hardest .BTW Geoff is just keeping up with me. some photos on flikr. Now off for hot shower

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Its 6am on sunday morning and we are getting ready to begin our gr20 walk. Arrived in
Calenzana last night around 10pm an hour behind time due to a rough crossing. After a 35 euro taxi journey we arrived at hotel monte grosse.Very strange lady running the hotel thanks to 2 guys from holland we finally got our room. No other english here and they all keep saying how hard this walk is !
So time now for us to in and see what all the fuss is about .

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Got the 4.40 train to stansted now waiting for 6.30 flight to nice. My bag weighed in at 10 kg geoff’s was 8kg with the tent so i am not happy ! Must be the 8 batteries and the camera plus the sun cream as i burn in the sun . Might have to dump some stuff on way .

Two fantastic walking days here in Les Gets.

Beautiful hot sunny weather has made it even more fantastic….

Took it easy yesterday as Geoff was carrying the tent in his ruc-sac for the first time , and we were both walking with 2 poles for the first time as well.

We left Les Gets and walked up to Pointe de la Turche then on to Ranfolly.

Where we saw fantastic views of Mont Blanc….

This gave us a 9 mile walk with 859m of ascent.

Walking time was 3 hours and 12 min’s and stopping time was 2 hours and 8 min’s

After getting on ok with the walking poles we decided to try a harder walk today.

So we set off in brilliant sunshine to walk around Mont Chery then up to Col-de la Basse, with a height of 1696 m.

We then descended to l’Encrenaz before walking up and over Mont Chery back to Les Gets

This gave us an 11 mile walk with 1314m of ascent.

Walking time was 3 hours 54 min’s and stopping time was 2 hours 20mins

We just about made it back to Les Gets before the thunder storm.

After two good walks I am being treated to a day shopping in Chamonix tomorrow of course knowing me I will only buy walking kit…  🙂

Today saw us going up the coast toward Snettisham.

Geoff is leading  a walk for the Simply social ladies,and we were off to check out part of the route and parking…

Took a route from Snettisham village across the fields and through the woods , meeting up with the coast. We then walked to Hunstanton along the coast.

 Along the coast we came across a stranded seal pup that was not very happy, so we stopped off at the sealife center and reported it hoping they would go and rescue the poor thing.

From Hunstanton we walked to old Hunstanton, hoping to walk through Hunstanton park but we discovered that its only open to the public on Thursdays……So we followed the road round to Ringstead where we picked up the Peddars way which took us all the way back to Snettisham.

A grand total of 30km, walking  time was 5 hours and we just beat the rain…..