This week has mainly consisted of crafting and adventuring around La Chambre. We began the week by popping down to Grenoble to pick up some craft supplies and getting some cheeky IKEA meatballs on route back to La Chambre.
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| Products from the shopping trip |
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| Bit of craft I whipped up this week |
The weather has been really nice, not boiling, but we haven't had the rain that the UK has been experiencing this week. We have spent a bit of time getting acquainted with our local surroundings. This has included driving down a hair pin zig zag road going up the mountains and exploring a church that sits pretty much on a mound in a river (kind of).
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| Zig zag road going up the mountain |
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| Church on the rock in the river (ish) |
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| Alex stuck in a crevice |
We have also seen 'l'aura', an art installation that is made up of lots of metal discs which form a giant horseshoe shape that can be seen from far away. It began being created in 1993 and was installed in 2007 - placed to represent the 42,000 inhabitants of the valley, where aluminium was invented.
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| Up close and personal...I climbed up to see it (not sure if you are supposed to, but I did) |
Yesterday we went to the local market in St. Jean de Maurienne and then took a packed lunch up to St. Francois, a local mountain. I was so excited that we remembered to take the flask (the first outing it has had since out trip began) and we enjoyed eating our lunch with a view! Close to where we ate our lunch we saw some large rock formations that are known as 'cheminees des fees' or 'fairy chimneys' - naturally eroded rocks.
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| Cheminees des fees (Fairy Chimneys) |
Today we went to a 'brocante' (second hand sale) and a 'Marche Noel' (christmas market) - both of which we saw on the community notice boards and signs...we are so local. Here are a few more pictures of our local explorations this week. (Where we are staying is on the border of La Chambre and St. Avre.)
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| Alex on a horse bench |
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| St. Avre |
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| La Chambre from up high |
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| St. Avre |
One more week left in the beautiful Alps before we head further south, to our final destination...
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