Up into the mountains

Up into the mountains

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

The French edition of Brisbane author Remy Lai's Pie in the Sky!
Paradis Patisserie internals.

... 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...

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