The next day was a rest day and we needed it after Tuesday’s epic. Today would be my first day of not riding in 12 days. We decided to take a train up to the Mer de Glace and play tourists. Glaciers are really fascinating – we don’t have many in the US but the Chamonix area is rich with them. The Mer de Glace (sea of ice) is the second largest glacier in the Alps. The train takes you up, and then we took a Gondola down a ways, and then hiked down into the glacier.









Some lady admiring one of the rooms







Later we rode the Alpine slides. Last time we were in Germany we had fun on them, these ones were a bit more risky. They had signs that said “Brake here” and they should not be ignored. A couple of us tested the limits of those little sleds and dangit, you can totally go off track with them.

Another self operated ride at the little park.





This place had a couple pretty good beers. Coming from Oregon - home of soooo many microbrews, we were disappointed overall with the beer in Switzerland and France. The wine was good to make up for it though.