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Nina, James, Iz & T. Upping sticks for a life full of #adventure. From the UK to #family life in a French ski resort. #Blog👇🏼🇬🇧🇫🇷

French Alps
Joined November 2015
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Winter has well and truly arrived 🙌🤩👌 #lesgets #nantaux @ Station les Gets Haute- Savoie instagram.com/p/CIjAOHwFWyP/… – at Les Gets, France
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Unexpected opening for the season (nearly 6 weeks earlier than planned) of @Glacier3000 near Les Diablerets and Gstaad in Switzerland this morning after 70cm (28") of snowfall over the weekend
A bit of light relief for your #Easter weekend: James escapes #lockdown to venture to the supermarket! 🐢 #StayHome up-stix.com/one-shop-one-man…
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Mesmerising... Like one of those little wooden marble runs but better! 😜🙌 up-stix.com #vtt #MTB #LesGets @ Bike Park Les Gets instagram.com/p/Bzq3HPKnWUh/… – at Les Gets, France
‘Twas a glorious sunset tonight! 👌😍🙌 Mont Chery and Roc D’Enfer taken from the Chavannes side of Les Gets. up-stix.com @ Les Gets instagram.com/p/BzeEp_NoDCM/… – at Les Gets, France
I’ve a feeling our next purchase may be frozen peas... 😬🤔🥴 All I will say is that I’m thankful that we already have kids! 🙄🤢😵 #poorjames #vtt #mtb #balls instagram.com/p/BzStG8ZoDSh/…
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Balmy evenings along the Dereches in Morzine... 7.30pm last night and it was 29°C!! 🥵 Thank goodness for the freezing cold meltwater in the river Dranse! 🥶😝💦 @ Parc des Dérêches - Morzine instagram.com/p/BzSYr-6oV5O/… – at Morzine, France
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Yesss! #rainbow season is back! ☀️🌈⛈👌🙌😍 up-stix.com @ Les Gets Station De Ski instagram.com/p/By8o317I9hh/… – at Les Gets, France
Well, we never knew that caterpillars hatched from a web! Did you?! We spotted a few of these nests on yesterday’s hike from the Lac des Mines D’Or up to the Col de Coux. Index finger for scale! 😜👉👀🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛… instagram.com/p/ByrrjNnHaxW/… – at Morzine, France
The swimming lake is now full of water... and so, evidently, is the sky! 🤔😜😂💦☔️🌊 #lovelesgets #mountainlife #summertime @ Lac des Écoles instagram.com/p/BykDySLI7w8/… – at Les Gets, France
It’s a good job we love ALL forms of weather! ☔️👌😍🙌😎 #June #météo #cloudporn #choosemountains @ Rhône-Alpes, France instagram.com/p/BygMfeIIMWF/… – at Saint-Théoffrey, France
Sweet new green through the woods lesgetsbikepark 👌😍🙌 #vtt #mtb #lesgets @ Bike Park Les Gets instagram.com/p/Byc2vgkHzgM/… – at Les Gets, France
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On the François Baud footbridge in Morzine, the resident skiers are currently being replaced by bikes for the summer... This year it’s not pedal bikes but shiny new Harleys! (Of sorts! 😄) @ Parc des Dérêches - Morzine instagram.com/p/ByZl-CclJi_/… – at Morzine, France
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Another day of blue skies, green trees and dirt trails? Oh, go on then... 😝👌😎🤙 #vtt #mtb #LesGets @ Bike Park Les Gets instagram.com/p/ByNUd-2lTuf/… – at Les Gets, France
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Still chilly but it’s a beautiful day today! 😎 Feels goooood to be back on the lifts in #LesGets! 🤙 up-stix.com @ Bike Park Les Gets instagram.com/p/ByFB8R9ovTL/… – at Les Gets, France
29th May and freshies on Nantaux this morning!! 🤪🤣🙄🗻 ⛄️ @ Morzine instagram.com/p/ByDKtdthsie/… – at Morzine, France
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May evenings in the French Alps... 🙌😍👌 @ Les Gets instagram.com/p/Bx9aOMAIbwQ/… – at Les Gets, France
Lots of rain means full rivers, waterfalls and reservoirs! Lovely jubbly! 👌😍🙌 @ Morzine instagram.com/p/BxsEQUpIRSO/… – at Morzine, France