
A Weekend in Torgnon
31/03/2025 We drove down to the bottom of the valley and Chatillon for a night to get some washing and shopping done. It’s a regular haunt of ours and I… Read more »
31/03/2025 We drove down to the bottom of the valley and Chatillon for a night to get some washing and shopping done. It’s a regular haunt of ours and I… Read more »
27/03/2025 It has taken us a while, years in fact, to get our heads around the names for the different types of infrastructure that get us around the ski slopes…. Read more »
25/03/2025 We had finally made it to Italy! We exited the Mont Blanc Tunnel to the sight of the dormant vineyards, stone buildings and steep mountainsides of the Aosta Valley…. Read more »
21/03/2025 After our stay in Les Saisies we had some laundry to do. We left the resort in the mid afternoon following our walk and reversed our journey down the… Read more »
20/03/2025 With warmer days looming we were ready to start our journey north to the Aosta Valley where the ski resorts are high. On the way we thought we’d stop… Read more »
13/03/2025 From Les2Alpes we just had to head across the Oisans valley to the ski resort we could see in the distance – Alpe d’Huez. We’ve been here before but… Read more »
07/03/25 With the snow rapidly disappearing from lower slopes, and sun forecast for at least the next week, we had to find somewhere with high altitude slopes. We’d been hoping… Read more »
28/02/2025 We have finally moved on from Montgènevre. Yet again we have been reluctant to leave somewhere we were comfortably parked up, but it was definitely time. We had already… Read more »
21/02/25 As I sit here on a Friday evening, full to bursting with cheese and bacon stuffed pancakes, I can hear the sounds of rumbling engines. Ice is being crushed… Read more »
.17/02/2025 Our journey to Briançon was a mere 17km through the other villages that serve the Serre Chevalier ski area. We decided that we definitely like Monêtiers best. The other… Read more »
15/02/2025 It seems like ages since we arrived in the aire at Le Monêtiers les Bains. We paid to stay for five nights and then we extended for a further… Read more »
06/02/25 Is it slightly mad to embark on a new three month trip in the Alps in winter with a new van? Hopefully not. Something could go wrong, but that’s… Read more »
06/02/25 After getting over the emotional turmoil of selling Bertie, we were immediately into the excitement of picking up our new van, making it our own and planning a shake-down… Read more »
Here is our financial summary of our three month tour of Scotland. As usual we keep track of all our spending. We review our spending as we go and use… Read more »
06/12/2024 South to Stirling We took the A835 east to Inverness where we stopped for LPG. We were on this road over 5 weeks previously, climbing Ben Wyvis and watching… Read more »
30/11/2024 Moving swiftly on after our walk to the Bone Caves I scoured google maps to see whether there was anywhere else we should stop as we made our way… Read more »
29/11/2024 Friday was a drab damp and windy day. It was also the day we realised we only had a week left to get back home for our family Christmas… Read more »
28/11/25 After Durness, we drove around more of the NC500 road. heading south and away from the north coast. On our right was the wild and desolate landscape of the… Read more »
27/11/2024 It was time for me to do some more work so we planned the next stop to be on a campsite. Sango Sands Oasis Sango Sands Oasis campsite is… Read more »
24/11/2024 We had a brief weather window. A dry and windless day between rainy weather systems that we needed to make use of. We chose to use this day to… Read more »