Bonjour!
Well, what a morning, I just had to do a blog, it snowed! As you can see in the blog of a couple of weeks ago when we arrived here it was shorts and t-shirt weather. We saw the forecast yesterday for heavy snow, but I was thinking and saying "surely not in the village, maybe in the mountains behind us", where we saw a sprinkling of snow two days ago.
I was like a little kid, up at 4am, had a peak out the window, nothing, 5am, saw a little of what looked like snow, and then at about 6:30am, a winter wonderland! I got Jane up, and then the kids, there was a lot of "wow"s going on. To put the scene into some perspective, I was brought up in sunny Brisbane, Australia and the kids had once seen snow about 100 kms away on some Pyrenees mountaintops a few months ago. I don't know if I have never seen snow quite like this, we were all very excited. Here's some snaps from this morning.....
This was taken first thing in the morning from the back yard, complete with snow flakes falling in the foreground...
This is just after Soph and Connor stepped out onto the snow, for the first time ever...
And of course we had to have a snow fight, here's one in action..
Here is Soph just after she threw a snow ball at me, you can see it in mid-flight heading straight for me!
And another obligatory thing to do when it snows is...... build a snow man of course, here is our attempt, small, but he/she has character I think...
And so I headed out for my usual walk, but this time, the sights, magnificent! I met an English guy who lives in the village, he said there is about four other expats in the village (that's out of about 500 locals). He also said that he has lived here for nearly two years and he has only seen snow like this here once before. We are so lucky to have seen it, and so early in the season...
This is a cute house which sits up against the castle here in the village...
The main street leading into the heart of the village........
Here is a photo from up the mountain a bit on the usual track I take. You can see the castle in the middle of the shot...
Here's another view of the village from a different side, the castle there in the middle again...
When I arrived back home I had to take another photo of the house with a bit more light, a memorable morning! I guess we won't be using those sun lounges for a while :).
Well, what a morning, I just had to do a blog, it snowed! As you can see in the blog of a couple of weeks ago when we arrived here it was shorts and t-shirt weather. We saw the forecast yesterday for heavy snow, but I was thinking and saying "surely not in the village, maybe in the mountains behind us", where we saw a sprinkling of snow two days ago.
I was like a little kid, up at 4am, had a peak out the window, nothing, 5am, saw a little of what looked like snow, and then at about 6:30am, a winter wonderland! I got Jane up, and then the kids, there was a lot of "wow"s going on. To put the scene into some perspective, I was brought up in sunny Brisbane, Australia and the kids had once seen snow about 100 kms away on some Pyrenees mountaintops a few months ago. I don't know if I have never seen snow quite like this, we were all very excited. Here's some snaps from this morning.....
This was taken first thing in the morning from the back yard, complete with snow flakes falling in the foreground...
This is just after Soph and Connor stepped out onto the snow, for the first time ever...
And of course we had to have a snow fight, here's one in action..
Here is Soph just after she threw a snow ball at me, you can see it in mid-flight heading straight for me!
And another obligatory thing to do when it snows is...... build a snow man of course, here is our attempt, small, but he/she has character I think...
And so I headed out for my usual walk, but this time, the sights, magnificent! I met an English guy who lives in the village, he said there is about four other expats in the village (that's out of about 500 locals). He also said that he has lived here for nearly two years and he has only seen snow like this here once before. We are so lucky to have seen it, and so early in the season...
This is a cute house which sits up against the castle here in the village...
The main street leading into the heart of the village........
Here is a photo from up the mountain a bit on the usual track I take. You can see the castle in the middle of the shot...
Here's another view of the village from a different side, the castle there in the middle again...
When I arrived back home I had to take another photo of the house with a bit more light, a memorable morning! I guess we won't be using those sun lounges for a while :).
Au revoir et bonne chance de nous dans le sud de la France
Jane, Soph, Connor, et moi
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