Getting into the Mountains at Borno
24/04/19 – 25/04/19 We woke up to a rainy day and a forecast of 24 hours more rain to come. However a bright ray of sunshine appeared in the forecast… Read more »
24/04/19 – 25/04/19 We woke up to a rainy day and a forecast of 24 hours more rain to come. However a bright ray of sunshine appeared in the forecast… Read more »
23/04/19 Paul doesn’t display the highest levels of enthusiasm when visiting historical sites unless they have some element of engineering or architectural interest. So when I announced that I wanted… Read more »
19/04/19 – 22/04/19 From Livigno we drove back down to Bormio, looking for somewhere that might have some Easter activity that wasn’t centred around skiing and late night loud and… Read more »
16/04/19 – 19/04/19 After a decent fall of snow in Passo Tonale we were torn about our next steps. Should we plough on into the Dolomites? The ski season was… Read more »
12/04/19 – 15/04/19 Passo Tonale didn’t fill us with enthusiasm when we turned up. The previous couple of days notwithstanding, we just found the layout of the resort – hotels… Read more »
10/04/19 – 11/04/19 Our journey to Passo Tonale started with the sort of afternoon I’d rather forget. Thinking to save ourselves a bit of driving we decided to leave Gressoney-Saint-Jean… Read more »
08/04/19 – 10/04/19 The Monte Rosa ski area covers three parallel valleys in the Aosta region. Each valley has ski resort villages and facilities for motorhomes so all we had… Read more »
07/04/19 We’re pretty poor at keeping track of the days of the week. Back in our working lives a Sunday was an opportunity to relax and recharge the batteries. Maybe… Read more »
31/03/19 – 06/04/19 After our couple of days in the warmth of the Aosta valley we were considering skiing again. This time we weren’t going to take any chances. With… Read more »
30/03/19 – 31/03/19 Last time we were in the Aosta Valley was ten months ago, on our return from a four month stint in Italy. It’s a beautiful part of… Read more »
29/03/19 Well today was meant to be THAT day, the day that Britain was to leave the EU. Unless you’ve been deliberately ignoring the topic (and I wouldn’t blame you)… Read more »
25/03/19 – 28/03/19 We were in St-Gervais-les-Bains, not because we had any particular plans, but because I was feeling under the weather and we wanted somewhere free and warm (ie… Read more »
22/03/19 – 24/03/19 The forecast for the weekend was warm, in the mid teens during the day and only slipping down to about -2 in the cold hours of the… Read more »
18/03/19 – 21/03/19 We packed ourselves up and said goodbye to Camping Montchavin, we really liked the campsite but hadn’t been so enthralled by the skiing at La Plagne, it… Read more »
12/03/19 – 17/03/19 Montchavin and Les Coches are two villages sitting almost on top of each other at the eastern extremities of La Plagne resort and very close to the… Read more »
11/03/19 We were more than ready to move on from Camping Huttopia; not that we hadn’t enjoyed our stay, but 11 nights in one place is rather a long time… Read more »
28/02/19 – 10/03/19 When Aaron told us that he had an opportunity for some leave we set to work trying to find somewhere to ski. We needed to find somewhere… Read more »
25/02/19 – 27/02/19 While we’d been in the Verdon area we had been making plans. Paul’s son (Aaron) had a window of opportunity to take some leave and was keen… Read more »
24/02/19 The Verdon Gorge is, of course, the main event in this area. We had walked at one end of the gorge, where the river debouches into the Lac du… Read more »
22/02/18 – 23/02/18 We were still in need of water and the situation was getting desperate as we opened our emergency stash. No one had been to fix the machine… Read more »