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Valloire

Just a Wednesday night – and a picture from France

February 3, 2021 By graham stewart

It’s almost time to put the bins out and I had nothing prepared to post. So, here’s a picture of somewhere that means a lot to Laura and me. We haven’t been there for over a year. I miss it.

A view of Valloire

I love the mountains and their clear air. I miss sitting in the sun on a cafe terrace adjacent to a snow-covered slope, with the temperature below zero, and feeling warm enough to strip down to a t-shirt.

We’re lucky we found this place and we’ve been going there for over ten years now. It’s a part of France we didn’t know at all before we ended up in Valloire. But our visits there are coming to an end. There are many reasons for this — and Brexit is not really one of them — but, if Covid restrictions are lifted, we’ll make one last trip before the summer to recover some stuff and that will be that.

We’re sad tonight but we have great memories of Valloire. Things change. New circumstances bring new opportunities.

I was never very good on skis anyway.

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