8/10
A very nice excursion.
26 April 2024
I enjoyed very much this excursion in the vallée de la Maurienne: beautiful snowy landscapes and nice encounters.

There are some interesting aspects of this region: the wnter and summer jobs ( Lionel is ski intructor and manages a sports store in winer and works as bricklayer in the summer, his Loris want to become a "pisteur-secouriste" and studies at the "Lycée Saint-Michel de Maurienne the house building and wants also to become a mountain guide for the summer season, Axel who studies in the Lycée wants to become a freestyle skier), the family resort of "Les Karellis " (the commune and the associations manage this resort created by Pierre Lainé in 1973, the facilities for handicape persons), the winter sports ( at Bettans the practice of the luges in the snowy streets of the villages, in Bramans the practice of bobsleigh on the frozen roads, the Xbikes and the speed riding (acrobatic skiing with a paraglider), the road tunnel of Fréjus between France and Italy inaugurated in 1980, the French of Modane nd the building of the railways tunnel in 1870, the growth of the town , the laboratory in the center of the road tunnel (the physicist Ali and the particle physics), the sabbatical year of an Australian family in Lans-le-Bourg, the winter sports, the school year at the Collège de la Vanoise in Modane, the learning of the French language), and the "Grande Odyssée Savoie-Mont-Blanc created by the musher and explorer Nicolas Vanier in 2005 , the departure from Lans-le-Bourg to the Col du Mont Cenis-60 kilometers- the bivouac of the mushers and the dogs after the stage).

I enjoyed the encounters of Sophie with the sisters Magali and Emeline Veille, with the chalet owner Brigitte and Jean-Marc, ith Claude Guillot at the hamlet of Écot, with Corentin Cimaz (the game of the mourra), , with the ski tracks manager Dominique Petit and Erika Rozas at Val Cenis Vanoise, with the ski instructor and freestyle kier Max Vince, with the mailman Georges Cecillon alias Jojo at Bessans and with Daniel Gaïnetdinoff,- the commentator of the "Grande Odysée Savoie-Mont-Blanc with David Favre and the guests of Daniel for the traditional meeting of mamies in Bramans; nice encounters with very kind French men and women.
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