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Today I got back from a week in France. Okay, I admit, I'm lying. It's actually Tuesday of the following week, not Saturday 28th, but in order to be able to pick a photo of France and not have to use the London telephone boxes again, I am pretending I was not lazy in writing this. I don't think STA will know. Or care.
Anyway, LAST week I was in the French alps, in Saviore, in a place called La Plagne, in a ski village called Belle Plagne, nestled in a valley surrounded by snow covered mountains.
I went with Sophie and 5 others, and we flew into Lyon 'airport' on Saturday 21st. We then travelled 3 hours by bus to La Plagne, and it was such absolutely beautiful scenery. We made our way up the mountain, hair pin turn by hair pin turn, and no barriers/fences on the road/cliff edge, with grumpy the bus driver on a suicide mission. It was a little bit scary...
We hit the slopes on Sunday, and 5 of us attempted snowboarding. All I can say is that I didn't bond with the snowboard, and spent most of the day on my bottom. Luckily snowpants are warm. But I was so bad that in the end I just used my board as a toboggan and slid down hills at high speed. It was more fun than it sounds. On our first run on a ski lift, Sophie and I got tangled up in our boards when we went to get off, and hit the ice pretty hard, from which I got a very impressive bruise on my knee. If I'd given it more of a go, I may have improved, but my body hurt a lot from falling over so much that I just gave up on snowboarding. So I thought I'd try skiing, which seemed to come pretty naturally. I only stacked it twice in the day I learned to ski, and it was so much easier and therefore more fun than snowboarding. It was very cold, but so beautiful, and we had the most amazing view of the valley and the alps from our apartment balcony. We also had 5 days of perfect sunshiny weather, and one day of really pretty, glittery snow. We also did some ice skating and played ice hockey, and had some awesome crepes (or craps, as the French say) with banana and Nutella. Yes, this was one of the highlights and needs mentioning because they were SO good. We came home on the 28th and had to leave at 6am, in order to catch the plane, which turned out to be delayed by 6 hours. We sat in Lyon 'airport', which is in inverted commas because it's more like a pavilion with a duty free shop containing perfume, alcohol and chocolate, and another small shop containing dirty sandwiches, chocolate and chips. So that wasn't the most fun I've ever had, and a few of us went a bit stir crazy from lack of airport entertainment/activities.
But it was a fun trip, and another stamp for the passport.
P.S. The photo above is of Mount Blanc, which I'm pretty sure was one of the huge mountains near Belle Plagne. I have some nice photos of where we actually were which I will upload soon though.
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