On The Places That Made Me Archives • Look With New Eyes https://www.lookwithneweyes.com/category/on-the-places-that-made-me/ Stories and travel guides from the Lake District Sun, 28 Jun 2020 11:26:41 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://www.lookwithneweyes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-lwne-logo-black-rgb-861px@72ppi-32x32.jpg On The Places That Made Me Archives • Look With New Eyes https://www.lookwithneweyes.com/category/on-the-places-that-made-me/ 32 32 127582044 On the places that made me: Glencoe, Scotland https://www.lookwithneweyes.com/on-the-places-that-made-me-glencoe-scotland/ https://www.lookwithneweyes.com/on-the-places-that-made-me-glencoe-scotland/#respond Tue, 23 Oct 2018 13:18:52 +0000 http://www.lookwithneweyes.com/?p=3775 “And this, this is the staff accommodation” gestured G the general manager, proudly.  We paused on the outside deck of a wooden chalet style apartment in the fading May light, tinges of red and orange streaked across the sky above the imposing mountain of Bidean Na’am Ban. I couldn’t believe this was my new home. […]

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]]> https://www.lookwithneweyes.com/on-the-places-that-made-me-glencoe-scotland/feed/ 0 3775 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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