France - Look With New Eyes https://www.lookwithneweyes.com Stories and travel guides from the Lake District Wed, 09 Mar 2022 12:06:38 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://www.lookwithneweyes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-lwne-logo-black-rgb-861px@72ppi-32x32.jpg France - Look With New Eyes https://www.lookwithneweyes.com 32 32 127582044 Hitchhiking London to Morocco // Part 2 https://www.lookwithneweyes.com/hitchhiking-london-to-morocco-part-2/ https://www.lookwithneweyes.com/hitchhiking-london-to-morocco-part-2/#respond Thu, 21 Feb 2019 17:04:54 +0000 http://www.lookwithneweyes.com/?p=1261 Apologies, Part 2 has been a VERY long time coming! We are at the half point stage of our hitchhike adventure from London to Morocco – catch up on Part One. Day 4 The Lowdown and Drivers  After a nights stay at my friend Jay’s house from a previous ski season, we were back on […]

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]]> https://www.lookwithneweyes.com/hitchhiking-london-to-morocco-part-2/feed/ 0 1261 On the places that made me: Ardent, the French Alps https://www.lookwithneweyes.com/on-the-places-that-made-me-ardent-the-french-alps/ https://www.lookwithneweyes.com/on-the-places-that-made-me-ardent-the-french-alps/#comments Wed, 12 Sep 2018 12:07:42 +0000 http://www.lookwithneweyes.com/?p=3668 It was a dark, bitterly cold night when I arrived in Ardent on the last week of November. The flickering glow of lights from the dozen or so wooden chalets in the village providing the only light. It was my very first ski season in 2007. I was 22. And I had never been to […]

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]]> https://www.lookwithneweyes.com/on-the-places-that-made-me-ardent-the-french-alps/feed/ 2 3668 A winter season in the French Alps: March and April https://www.lookwithneweyes.com/a-winter-season-in-the-french-alps-march-and-april/ https://www.lookwithneweyes.com/a-winter-season-in-the-french-alps-march-and-april/#respond Thu, 24 May 2018 07:33:52 +0000 http://www.lookwithneweyes.com/?p=3187 March After the deep snow and freezing temperatures of December and January, March was a welcome lightness. As we left for work in the mornings, the sun was now emerging over the mountains, the afternoon sunshine lasting low into the afternoon allowing lazy pre-work snoozes in a piste side bar before heading back the chalet to cook […]

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]]> https://www.lookwithneweyes.com/a-winter-season-in-the-french-alps-march-and-april/feed/ 0 3187 A winter season in the French Alps: January and February https://www.lookwithneweyes.com/a-winter-season-in-the-french-alps-january-and-february/ https://www.lookwithneweyes.com/a-winter-season-in-the-french-alps-january-and-february/#respond Fri, 27 Apr 2018 09:39:54 +0000 http://www.lookwithneweyes.com/?p=3093 After promising myself to do monthly updates from the Alps, the weeks slipped past. Days were filled with work, snowboard, work. Wednesday’s were typically a full day snowboarding or sleeping off work. So my photos have piled up and I’m now sat here at my desk back home, back out of the ski season bubble […]

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]]> https://www.lookwithneweyes.com/a-winter-season-in-the-french-alps-january-and-february/feed/ 0 3093 A winter season in the French Alps: The first 6 weeks https://www.lookwithneweyes.com/a-winter-season-in-the-french-alps-6weeks/ https://www.lookwithneweyes.com/a-winter-season-in-the-french-alps-6weeks/#respond Wed, 24 Jan 2018 17:12:07 +0000 http://www.lookwithneweyes.com/?p=3037 And sometimes, the mountains call you back for another season, despite your words from five years ago that my season days were over. And you oblige. I applied for my fifth season on a whim after living a relatively settled life back home for almost two years. Normal life wasn’t cutting it, it was time […]

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