A Mile And A Half Up

Here is a photo i took last week in the Alpes - it's from near the top of a mountain called Les Perrons (2620 metres):


The resort i was in is called La Toussuire and is totally ace - The town itself is quite small but the ski area itself is huge (310km). That's not an area though is it. Interesting.

One of the most interesting things about the place is that the French have kept it almost exclusively French. The upshot of this is that we were about the only English people in town (seriously) and everything was decidedly less Anglicised - which was rather refreshing after the occasional excesses of the almost ex-pat outpost nature of places like Val d'Isere, Les Arc and Val Thorens.