SHEER DROP Park-Up – Motorhoming in the Mountains is TOUGH! – Annecy to Chamonix

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In this weeks vlog…

Waking up in the mountains makes for impossibly beautiful views, and while cycling around it’s hard to believe we’re lucky enough to be experiencing the landscape this way. In the meantime Daz has to grapple with the black waste, and experiments with a hack we’ve seen in several motorhoming groups using a certain supermarket’s washing product! Onward to the famous ski resort of Chamonix, curiously more popular in the summer months, and we realise just what a tourist hot spot it is, and snow definitely isn’t essential to experience some of the fun things in town.

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Give me strength we are hiding in his secret messy field at the back right I just competed a rather Long Walk of Shame bad news is that the poo bag split on my hand if you can see this there’s a sort of sheer drop hi I’m Daz and she’s B and we’re on

A 12we road trip round France with our boys and our Greyhound Sammy join us as we explore the history Beauty and fun we can squeeze in while getting to grips with the challenges of working and home educating on the road as a family in France living a life less ordinary as we

Escape in the [Laughter] Moto Ah that’s what woke me up this morning beautiful balloons I highly recommend this site by the way it’s Chua block full this here onale site but the guy was so kind I managed to squeeze this out the back and as you can see even though the bit of

The back isn’t particularly nice this section is very nice and here you got your water and your waste recycling ping machines you can get in 24 hours so on the low season you won’t have any trouble getting in at all and this is the view you get in the

Morning so it’s another day another morning walk another w goose chase wondering where the Jinky Sammy is taking me but this morning dog walk has a stoning view even though Samy’s decided to go through somebody’s Crazy Golf Course on somebody’s campsite well good morning all it’s another morning in our adventures and

It’s our first morning on lake mesy and I don’t think we’re staying here for too long because we need to get to Shaman for the weekend it’s only about an hour and 20 minutes drive so that’s good but we have tickets booked on Sunday to go up to see the peak

Exciting so really looking forward to that it’s one hell out of an expense but if we’re in the area it would be wrong not to so I think what we’re going to do we haven’t even paid for our space yet this highly accommodating guy rang I

Rang him last night panicking cuz it had got to about 8:00 p.m. and I still hadn’t paid and he just went it’s fine I’ll come and find you tomorrow here’s the Wi-Fi code here’s the um other bit of information that you need so that was really useful so he’ll be coming around

And taking that today but I don’t know whether we’re going to have to be clear by midday or whether we’re clear in 24 hours I’m guessing if he’s got an automated at the front then it’s 24 hours however we might be treated differently cuz we are hiding in his

Secret messy field at the back so I’m hoping if we can shake a leg a little bit earlier this morning I’m hoping we can get a bit of a cycle in this morning with the boys and see a bit more of the lake so something great happened this morning we’ve only got

We’ve got less than 3 weeks left on our road trip and I had a hot and I mean super hot shower I think that has finally worked out whatever we were doing wrong and now we can I haven’t worked I haven’t worked anything out but

I thought I won’t take a chance I put it on seven you got a choice of 50° or 70 so I put it on 70 and it worked it was something to do with the window as well not pressing something it’s gas heated and so uh the window above where the gas

Vent has to be closed and there’s a little switch which I noticed the other week on it and we’ve been leaving the windows on a kind of ventilation bit which means the switch is always out however when I did notice that we did try it again and it didn’t seem to

Happen but for some reason it worked this time oh it was lovely I can’t tell you after 2 and a half months of cold showers it was just Bliss yes to have been the Old Camp campsite shower but you constantly have to press a button to

Make it work and it’s only lukewarm on a campsite so today it was just like being back at home it’s a shame it happened so late into the trip but maybe we know where we were going wrong last and hopefully we’ll be able to solve that problem in

The future this morning we’re going to do a bit of a cycle and we’re going to do a bit of cycle around the lake pump our ties up a little bit because youve got brand new pump and hopefully find the local town and see a bit more of ansy it’s a pretty good

View go cycling they said it’ll be really lovely and you can experience all the lovely nature I don’t if you can hear my seven-year-old moaning in the background it’s not been a very nice cycle so far firstly we took the wrong path we took us right through the beach you

Can’t cycle on the beach looks like you can’t cycle anywhere near the lake but we’re on a nice cycle track now but the first part has not been fun Just stopped off an outside work for our lunch inside an old Fountain right we’re going to cycle back to H Anna campsite I need to pay the guy hopefully with cash unfortunately I’m in the dreaded credit agrial are they going to charge me again I’m sure they will yes sure enough credit acol

€20 €6 charge I’m never using that bank again so I’m going to have to pay my bank Transfer Give me strength I want you to keep all of your bones intact until we reach the UK at Least Right I just completed a rather Long Walk of Shame right the way around this large barn here to the chemical toilet disposal and um as lovely as that was we just got down to last drips of our the blue concentrated blue wash that’s a €18

Bottle it was really hard to come by so we’ve been online looking for Alternatives you can get an alternative cheap Bluer one from U it’s either called Oran or action I’ve only found it in one of those stores and it was actually sold out so rather than try and

Find one of those we went online looked at Alternatives and apparently you can use washing tabs so we’ve bought some squidy washing tabs from little and I’m going to use one of those now H goodbye to Blue fingers well that’s us done at this camsite we’ve just topped up emptied and downloaded

And everything and be just had some good news and some bad news bad news is that the poo bag split on my hand t 10 points good news whilst I was waiting for D to do his uh chores um I was reading the sign and it talked about

This area being owned by the family where they grow organic vegetables and just next door to us is a fully vegetarian restaurant using the ingredients they grow in the fields that they own I just want to have a look at the menu it’s fairly simple and it some

Of it can easily be veganized some of it already is vegan I wish I’d seen it earlier we’re going now yes we’re off to our next stop before we get to shamoni we need some fuel and I need some trousers because apparently the top of Mt Blanc is pretty cold and I’ve managed

To get away with shorts so far but in these last couple of weeks as we head north and I’ve heard about the weather up in the Norther of France and in the UK so anyway I need some trousers we’ve left that lovely campsite now and I wish I’d seen that vegetarian restaurant

Before we I left but now we need to get some drinks cuz it is absolutely baking today and this is Never Enough drink Never Enough drink so in the height of Summer we’re on a road that clearly gets very cold in the winter cuz we’re seeing signs for

Eda shage which presumably means get your chains on your wheels you need something to grip onto in the snow we have also seen our first snow cap Mountain haven’t we it’s disappeared now yeah it’s behind these big guys here we God knows how far away there’s the closed down tunnel and we’re going

In this one I hope they don’t close it down whilst we’re in It Well here we are at our next stop unfortunately we didn’t get to Cath one time so I’m still in my shots we did also have a bit of an incident on the way here not a road traffic incident thankfully although some more misses just in the last 3 minutes Phoenix leapt

Around from his seat and just started saying his tummy hurts then he said can we stop Then followed a couple of coughs then as a precaution we ask Indy to jump up and grab one of our little takeaway tabs and sure enough about the last minute of the drive finix just Chucks

His guts up unfortunately Indie has a phobia to sickness so it’s caused some upset for Phoenix as well as Indie but we’re here and they’re chilling out I’ve just triple checked the handbrake is on because this car park um doesn’t seem to be signed for Camp F but it’s full of

Them the only worry is if you can see this there’s a sort of sh drop behind me that goes out there and disappears off down into the distance which you can’t really see what you can hear it’s running water Fierce running water down there it sounds sort of lovely although

I realized that’s going to be all night long indies’s after some food I think Friday night we need some treats especially after another hard on the arms and shoulders drive through mountains we did see it has to be Mont Blanc it’s was the biggest mountain covered in white snow and very weird

Looking at all so the ski resorts going through these little Alpin ski resorts with the little uh Chalet and even the supermarkets are sort of decked out in wood but seeing the ski um lifts going up the hill but there’s just lovely Green Lawn going up there I think it

Makes quite a nice little climb in the summer but right now we want to chill out so we might go and get some T food it’s a Friday night let’s treat ourselves can I interview Sam so Sammy how do you feel about uh this time in France has it changed you do

You have you increased your interest in bread products well that’s just Rude San is a traditional French Market Town popular with tourists from the early 1900s in summer tourists arrive from all over the place to try activities such as mountain biking climbing hiking paragliding and even rafting and since it’s not a purpose-built resort the buildings remain as Charming as they are

Historic and it was at this point I became slightly obsessed with Pharmacy signs which will now feature in as many Vlogs as I can make Possible oh I know where more BL is it’s that one all the way in The whoopsy Daisy we forgot to close our gray ways and I’ve just left a big snail Trail all the way down to here where there’s nothing to empty well there’s no hiding from whose van that came from push push electricity oh Grim the grimness okay this should be a fairly

Easy one for a day or so we’ve been using uh the liquid pods from Little so normally it comes out A Certain Shade of khy should we say let’s see what today’s color is well the result was the color was a kind of Bluey color and noticeably more bubbly there’s an image for You hi a lot of advice here I [Applause] Don’t hi everybody we’re heading up a mountain G down there just as fast as those people just be is it going to be cool Phoenix yeah yes it is and look at the beautiful view behind me which will soon be in front to us I guess come on ready And Shaman is the fourth largest commune in Metropolitan France and yet only has a population of around 9,000 its history dates back a thousand years and in 100 years ago it hosted the Winter Olympics even in 1903 tourists were visiting the glaciers here tourism continued to grow and replace Agriculture and by the 1960s there were 60,000 beds available to tourists at the end of the 20th century annual figures stood around 5 million visitors a year what is that clock what is it doing

The boys just points out this clock I figure it’s about as dysfunctional as we are it’s also going really fast and then it goes Backwards it was firing around like some venomous Cobra hitting two pass’s Boys [Applause] PA