The Pub and Snow in Freiburg

Here are a couple pics from the pub that I work at; The Isles of Innisfree. Getting a Guiness every time I work is almost worth working for free!

























We finally have snow if Freiburg, I took this last night after one hell of a bike ride through ice and snow, dodging Germans who have no idea how to drive in the snow!

Raclette Time

Thought I would put of a picture of my room here in my apartment, I'll take some more pictures and maybe post a video later on of the rest of it.

Last weekend Kristoff came up from Grenoble to pay a visit back to Freiburg. Friday night we had a raclette dinner, which was very tasty. Afterwards we headed out to Schlampen, the student pub for a few drinks.

Guy is making his famous Ottawa raclette meal, or maybe he's just reaching for the garlic.

Showing the french how to properly shotgun a beer. Although they still needs some practice.

Shotgun team.

The other racletters.

Grenoble 2

Guy and Damien waiting for the delicious meat to cook.

Standing beside our personal bar.

View of Grenoble from the top of Chamrousse

Battle scenes

New Years day, the car wasn't that comfortable and makes the second time a car was my bed in a foreign country. And won't be the last.

Grenoble again.

Noon at the base of Chamrousse, conditions were blizzard like but at least we had snow, the last time was in early December. From the top of the mountain you were lucky to see a few yards, it clear up by the bottom but then you just heading back up again to do it again.

End of the day.

Heading up the slopes.


This was from the highest point of the mountain, the area directly abouve the village and right were all ski trails, for a combined 140km. All for the low price of 24 euros, how the hell does Whistler get away with 100 dollars!?!?!

Grenoble

After spending a few days at home working at the pub I headed out New Years eve to visited Guy and Damien in Grenoble, in the French Alps. Great skiing, views and city. We spent New Years Eve in Charousse, a ski resort just outside of Grenoble. We spent a couple of days skiing, first in Charousse and the next in the Three Valleys. Very cool.

Damien pulling off a 360



Guy bailed, and instead of trying to help him I covered him in snow and then took a picture. I am glad to report that he survived.

Denis, Damien, Guy and myself taking a lunch break.

Shot of the village.



We were 15 minutes late for the last gondola to give us a lift back to the last hill we needed to take to get back to the car, which was parked at the other side of the mountain. Luckily one of the operators was nice enough the lend a group of us his truck to drive to the other side to get the car, 6 people eventually crammed into the truck while Dam, Guy and a couple of others waited in the village. Two people decided to take a cab to get over and ended up costing them 300 euros! The village was nice but absurdly expensive i.e 9 euros for an irish coffee. After waiting for 5 hours we eventually got back.

On the road back to Freiburg.

Driving 180km on the autobahn while taking a picture (not really).

Grenoble