Our Travels...Chamonix

As the weather starts to cool down in Lyon, we thought we'd follow suit and head to the mountains! Chamonix is the biggest village in Mont Blanc. It caters mostly to skiers but the runs weren't open yet when we got there. We mostly went for the scenery anyhow, I don't need any broken limbs in the middle of Europe, it's been a while since I hit the slopes!

We took the train from Lyon to Chamonix, with two short stop overs. The train ride should have taken us just 4 hours but it ended up taking us 8. How you ask? Well! Apparently in one of our transfers, the train that we got into eventually separated along its route, so that the first four carts went one direction and the other four unhitched and went another way. We, obviously were in the wrong cart. On the bright side we ended up in Evian-les-Bains -- where they bottle Evian water from the spring. So at least we got to see that. 

the Evian lake - the spring they get the water from is in town

While we were in Chamonix we stayed in a cute chalet that we rented from Airbnb!

We also took the Montvers tram allll the way up to the top of the mountain, one of the highest points in Western Europe and checked the glacier which is rapidly melting; all signs point to global warming.