Poster: A snowHead
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Just recieved a garbled message from a friend who has gone ahead of us on her own. Got to Geneva OK , but Is there ANOTHER Moutier?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Yes
edit: well yes and no.
Moutiers is in France, and Moutier is in Switzerland on the trainline from Geneva Airport to Basel (via Neuchatel). There may be more.
Last edited by Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person on Wed 19-12-12 14:55; edited 1 time in total
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Yes 2 or 3 ifirc including one in Switzerland
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She's at the train station waiting to go back to Geneva. She'll be ok
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Boredsurfing wrote: |
Yes 2 or 3 ifirc including one in Switzerland |
She's at the Swiss one having just flown over from the States. Doh.
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sequoiaboard, Bless she wants Moûtiers en Tarentaise
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Nice train ride. Quite scenic going past the lakes. Pushing a 3 hour trip each way though (3hr to Basel). Assuming it's that one
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sequoiaboard wrote: |
Boredsurfing wrote: |
Yes 2 or 3 ifirc including one in Switzerland |
She's at the Swiss one having just flown over from the States. Doh. |
Oh poor love - at least there is nice snowy scenery. Is she going down on the train? Would have thought the coach transfer from GVA would be more efficient.
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Cheers all, she thinks she's going to miss the last bus and so will have to get a shuttle.
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sequoiaboard, Just a thought.........mention to her that there's more than one Bourg too, just in case she goes past Moutiers on the train.
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There is Moutier in canton Berne and there is Moutiers in French Alps:)
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Yup tell her not to feel too bad about it, it has even caught out EoSBers in the past!
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You know it makes sense.
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Where is she going to anyway?
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Snowpie wrote: |
Where is she going to anyway? |
VT..............................eventually.
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Poster: A snowHead
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sequoiaboard, Train from Geneva has two options, the short 'local' route with two or three stops or sometimes its longer but quicker to express to Lyon and straight shot to Moutiers and bus up the hill. I think there's still a straight shot bus from the airport but availability may be a problem. If the train, look at the schedules and connection times to choose the quickest route. If you get to Moutiers too late for the bus a hotel across the road from the train station may be cheaper than a cab up the hill.
Hope that helps a bit.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Snowpie wrote:
Where is she going to anyway?
VT..............................eventually.
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Here's the full name of the station in France. The closest I think to all 3V resorts.
"Gare de Moûtiers-Salins-Brides-les-Bains"
This should be enough to avoid any confusion.
And it's double up as a coach station at the back.
One of Eurostar's ski train's stops before Bourg-St-Maurice.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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having just flown over from the States
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Aw bless....she did well to find France
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I seem to recall somebody else having the same problem a few years ago. Was it Dwarf Vader maybe?
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Well, she's finally made it. Sitting happily in the Frog as I type.
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sequoiaboard, Excellent, a story with a happy ending
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I got on the Geneva to Bellegarde train once and a couple of dishevelled but pretty young girls who looked like they'd been sleeping rough for a few days got on the train and sat opposite. One asked "is this the train to Bellegrad in France?"
"Bellegarde" I replied.
"Yeah yeah, Bellegrad, the French one"
Anyway they had been to the motor show with a boyfriend who then had to go on to Lausanne, he'd told them to take the train to the main station in Geneva and then get the train back home to Grenoble, it is the Bellegarde train.
So the two girls went to Geneva and got tickets to Belgrade. They were stopped by customs on the Austrian border and neither had passports with them and sent back to Geneva.
Anyway we rolled into Grenoble and the police got on board and walked up the train and asked the girls identity and arrested one of the girls. They'd been called by Austrian and Geneva customs because one of the girls had a control order on her as she was awaiting trial and was not allowed to leave France, which probably explained the lack of passport.
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Wags wrote: |
I seem to recall somebody else having the same problem a few years ago. Was it Dwarf Vader maybe? |
It was Paul the Horse
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one of the girls had a control order on her as she was awaiting trial and was not allowed to leave France
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not merely terminally stupid then.
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one of my nieces got on a train at Worcester to go to Birmingham to do some shopping. My sister had a call from her saying "Mum, I think there's something wrong, I just saw a "Welcome to Wales" sign.
She was doing A level geography.
She did once turn up at Geneva when her flight was from Grenoble. Or vice versa, I forget. It probably helps that she's exceptionally pretty. Ugly girls can't get away with that sort of stuff. She is now doing an F1 year as a newly qualified doctor. Navigational ability probably not required. She's in paediatric A & E in a London hospital and says it's like hell with tinsel.
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She's in paediatric A & E in a London hospital and says it's like hell with tinsel.
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pam w, if your niece wants to network a bit, my g/f's sister is a Paeds A&E specialist in London but she's on sabbatical at the mo (the tinsel got to her). I am regulary surrounded by her clique of medical chums at her parties which include Paeds specialists in London (Lewisham, Kings, Brompton, etc.) - if she would like to hook up, I can ask my quasi sister in law when she's due a party (usually has one around Xmas). Which hospital is your niece based at?
ROTFLMAOAPMS!
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You know it makes sense.
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Almost as bad as my friends who followed th sat nav from geneva to Tignes via a return trip through the Mont Blanc tunnel.
Idiots
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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lol, brilliant read. good to know she made it to 3V's ok!!
I myself undertook such a trip a couple of years back without knowing about the pitfalls! i luckily chose the coach and had none such debacle
merry christmas, hope you enjoy 3V, if your in meribel go into town opposite the bus stop in the bowl (not the banana bar) in the middle of where the road swings by and 2 years ago we had some cracking vin chaude and crimbo carols, well worth it!
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Poster: A snowHead
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Nadenoodlee, I've done that! In my defence I did it deliberately, on the map it looks MUCH shorter and I was going to Les Arcs not Tignes. Oddest trip over the top through La Thuile and La Rossiere. Only two other cars but various pedal bikes and one uber fit looking women running over the top of the pass. I wouldn't do it again but I'm glad I did it - wish they had told us in Italy that the pass was closed tho' - we only found out when we hit the French side ...
If you want REAL bad decision making, I once had to get from Les Arcs to Courchevel then to a place near Montelimar (between Lyon and Marseille north of Avignon). There seemed to be a route that cut across Grenoble spitting me out near Crest. Well, there is one, but it was one of the oddest trips I ever took, worked out about 15 hours longer than anticpated (but that did include getting pulled by the French police for about 45 minutes for some reason that was never explained). The highlight was passing by a skiing ghost town then through a tunnel and directly onto a vertiginous 50+ turn switchback road in the total dark just before the police nicked us. I later found out it was one of the steepest routes in France and is a tourist attraction - le Col de Rousset. Trust me - don't do that trip at night with a nervous passenger - I still bear the scars.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Nadenoodlee wrote: |
Almost as bad as my friends who followed th sat nav from geneva to Tignes via a return trip through the Mont Blanc tunnel.
Idiots |
I narrowly avoided my Dad doing that.
Me: meet you there, or you stopping by in Annecy first?
Dad: Annecy? We're not going anywhere near Annecy?
Me: Sure you are, it's the quickest way to Tignes from GVA... which way *are* you going then?
Dad: Somewhere called the 'Val Aost' or something.
Me: I see. Through La Thuile, over the St Bernard pass, and through La Rosiere eh?
Dad: Yep, that's the one, saves about half an hour.
Me: That pass is a piste in Winter. In fact we both skied it together a couple of years ago you utter utter idiot. Good luck!
Dad: ...
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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We're joking about it here now. But I watched a TV recreation of a tragic drama a few years back. Someone saw a road on the map that took them over the Sierra (or was that the Cascade?) near Oregon/California boarder. Except it was November and the roads were not plowed. Unlucky for them, it snowed as they were driving up. Got stuck in the snow for a week. One of the member of the party died. This happens with surprising frequency in fact.
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RattytheSnowRat, Nadenoodlee, friend of mine did it, and indeed with no prior warining, got up to the point on the Petit where he had to turn back. Slightly annoyed, he perhaps wasn't watching the speedo as he should have. Got pulled by the gendarmes on his return through the Mont Blanc tunnel, showing him 5 pictures as he tried to make up for his mistake " and this ees your car? ... and this one?... and this one?.... Had no cash, had to leave hire car papers with them, go to cash machine in a village somewhere, return and pay big fine, arrrived in 1950 about 3:30am.
Next morning, we kept pointing to La Ros - " See that hill over there, guess how close you were to it at about 7pm last night...?" Oh how we laughed.
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Mr Piehole, Arctic Roll, heh! I was lucky I was doing it in a 4 wheel drive Jag otherwise I never would have made it, I swear I was planing at some points! We got so blase that at one junction we took a little detour and went sight seeing - there were some REALLY bemused skiers wondering where the hell we had come from. I think we left some mental scarring on some kids as their world view of what happens on a piste took some re-adjustment! My g/f was waving regally to them as they slid by with their mouths open.
We were actually very lucky but looking back it's one of thoses things that you are really glad you did and even more glad it didn't all go t1ts up!
TBH it's the le Col de Rousset trip that really sticks in the mind partly because of the surreal things that kept on happening that day. There's whole valley in the mountains (I know, I know - but you have to see it. You go up and up from the valley Grenoble's in, then go into a valley - it's just odd) with little ski lifts running from each village that you drive through. It starts out quite broad and gets narrower and narrower and then you start heading down rock crevasses, with roads clinging to the side over a white water river. Discovering that by accident was weird but the rest of the day was tres odd for a number of reasons.
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I might be late in the conversation but in order to avoid such confusion with the Moutiers issue the french one takes a S and if you suspect your sat nav software had not been updated accurately the best to enter (for the French Moutiers) would be Moutiers-Salins, district (departement) 73.
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