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 »
Tag: mountains
Impianti and other Words
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 »
Unexpected Sunshine in La Thuile
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 »
Warming up in Alpe d’Huez
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 »
Leaving Montgènevre
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 »
Vauban Forts and Gargouilles
.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 »
An Extended Stay in Le Monêtiers les Bains
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 »
A Baptism of Fire, or Water?
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 »
A Day on Ben Wyvis
26/10/2024 Our reason for heading inland was to climb a mountain. Ben Wyvis is a munro. We are slowly ticking off these mountains over 3000 feet and as it was… Read more »
The Angus Glens
03/10/24 What we had seen of Angus so far had been fields of stubble and straw bales. Earthy potato fields were in the last stages of harvest and fruit farms… Read more »
Trying somewhere new in Champoluc
08/12/23 Cervinia is great, and we love going back, but we feel disappointed if we dont try somewhere new. We had heard of a new sosta near the ski resort… Read more »
December Skiing in Cervinia
30/11/2023 Our first day in Cervinia was not to be the mega skiing day we had hoped for. Snow fell during the night and then continued to fall all day…. Read more »
Back to the Aletsch
29/09/2023 After our lovely stay in the Saastal we needed to move on. We only had a couple of weeks before we needed to get home and had to pick… Read more »
Marmots in the Saas Valley
24/09/2023 South of the Rhone Valley, starting near the town of Visp, is a long valley that forks in two as it heads towards Italy. In one branch of this… Read more »
A Journey to the Aletsch Arena
23/09/2023 We were still in Brig at Camping Geshina, it was another grey day but we were really keen to get up into the Aletsch Arena and so crossed our… Read more »
Unexpected Brig
21/09/2023 Brig (officially Brig-Glis) is a town in the Rhône valley that is probably best known for being a transport hub. Trains bring in people who are travelling to and… Read more »
Satisfaction in Zinal
17/09/2023 When we got up to Zinal on Sunday afternoon it was still bustling with weekend visitors. Something about the village immediately made us feel as though we were going… Read more »
Watching the Queens in the Val d’Anniviers
15/09/2023 The Val d’Anniviers first came to our attention when we were full timing in our motorhome. Esther and Dan in their blog talked about the way the local community… Read more »
The Highest Gravity Dam in the World
13/09/2023 Our drive to our next stop was a pretty arduous one. We were heading into the Val d’Herens. It’s a pretty motorhome unfriendly valley with a website that says… Read more »
Verbier VIPs
11/09/2023 I’ve always thought of Verbier as a ski playground for the famous and glamorous. Somewhere a bit ‘up itself’ where Paul and I would stick out like sore thumbs… Read more »