From Winter to Summer

Well since my last posts lots of nice things have happened that I'd love to blog about, and some not so nice that I'll keep to myself ;)

I'll just have to start from today forwards as blogging retrospectively is difficult for me.
Blogging is difficult ...FULL STOP...my 3 year old is doing my hair as I type. Nuff said.

Well the ski season finished up the beginning of May and all the locals swapped ski racks for bike racks. The weather is glorious, 28 degrees today.

My 40 yo hubby has resumed his teenage cycling enthusiasm and has done his first col.
The col du petit st bernard....2188metres high over 28 kms.
I have to say I am VERY proud. We cheered him over the summit and he cycled down the Italian side of the mountain and we had a big pasta lunch in La Thuile for pennies. (€2 for 2 glasses of wine and €5 for both the kids pasta)

We drove on to Torino and stayed over night, with granny and grandad and the dog.
Great city and great food. Even though its just over the mountain, the italian culture is so different to the french. They are much more out-going and fun,friendly, crazy, disorganised anarchic and the food is MUCH better. I love the french but especially around here they can be a bit crusty on the outside, taking a while to warm up, which isn't much good when you are on holidays.

Granny and grandad have been here for a fortnight and have just left.
Granny reckons we tried to kill them yesterday when we brought them on a 2 km walk between two local alpine villages. There was a lil ole climb of 200m on a very rough track, and they are in their mid 70s, but they did great. I'm thinking some parapenting for their next visit!