It was school autumn break, and as usual we
went to our house in France for a week. We had to leave Beau behind in the
capable (female) hands of 4 of Mary’s friends, as it was too much hassle to
take him along for such a short trip. We drove through the night, arriving
early Saturday morning and went straight to bed, to wake up around noon under
perfect late summer conditions: sunny, and temperatures in the low 20-ies. The
weather stayed like this for the next days; we spend our time working in the
garden, cycling, hiking, picking apples and doing two Via Ferrata’s. Village
pony Image camped in our garden to eat the grass and get pampered by the girls.
Payback was done through a few pony cart rides.
On Friday the weather turned sour,
temperatures dropped, and it started raining almost continuously. Piet still managed a wet and very cold ride
op Alpe d’Huez, but most time was spend indoors reading and organising the
house for winter. Early Sunday morning we woke to drive back home, and it was
snowing heavily. We had to drive very carefully to Grenoble, as several trees had
fallen across the road, and sudden breaking on snow is not easy. We narrowly avoided
a few accidents, and halfway between Grenoble and Lyon we crossed onto save
roads, and drove home in the sunshine. And 5 minutes after arriving in The
Hague the ladies were at the stable!
Mary is working in our forest, preparing a training area for Beau
Walking near Auris en Oisans, view over the village of Les Cours
Walking near Auris en Oisans, with a spectacular view over the Romanche valley
Paula and Image riding near our village
Dorien and Mary in the Via Ferrata near Alpe d'Huez
Paula, Mary and Dorien at the top of the Via Ferrata in Alpe d'Huez
Leaving on Sunday morning: snow everywhere!
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