Up into the mountains

On Wednesday, after checking out of our accommodation and visiting the public library in Montélimar...





... we set off to our next destination, Saint-Jean-de-Sixt, in the French Alps. We started seeing some magnificent mountains on this drive! They're hard to photograph well from a moving vehicle, but here are a few attempts...






Our accommodation in Saint-Jean-de-Sixt was an apartment in what felt like a near-deserted apartment building... no doubt one that will be bustling in a couple of months when the nearby ski resorts have snow!
Here's a panorama of the view from our apartment balcony the afternoon we arrived...

... and on Thursday morning, when the fog — which had been extremely thick when we first woke up — had almost cleared...


