Holidays In Risoul 1850

I have got some photos for you because I want to show you how fantastic holidays I had this January. You know, I was on mountains in winter so far away from home for the first time in my life so I was enjoying every second like a small child.



Parking for helicoptera (Mecoptera) here!



I was in Risoul in French Alps with my roommate and other people I have not seen before. We lived in a small French apartment (3 girls + 3 boys). At the beggining I was absolute skiing beginner but after everyday 6 hours on skies I finished the holidays as a skier with his own style...

We had a big luck that it was snowing three days before our arrival so that we had a fresh snow and nice slopes without stones or grass nearly whole week. The sun was shinnig all the time exept for one day when it was a bit foggy.


So let me introduce Risoul, a small tourist village in southern France near Italian and Swiss borders


This "white street" is the beginning of your everyday ski-journey if you ski in Risoul. Here start chair-lifts on hills. An eight-seats-chair-lift was our favorit to get on a hill we used to visit every day as the first one:

A friend of mine is awaiting you there with open arms ;-)


















... But be careful when you want to visit the highest hill in Foret Blanche (=Risoul+Vars) - Pic De Chabrieres (2750 m), because there is a monster with a red eye awaiting you with open mouth!:



The green circle is a window of our apartment...

... and this is a night view from the window -
full moon made me crazy crazy that night.

This (a bit artistic photo of a) slope on the left with the "moleholes" was my second ride in Alps. My friend just ordered to go this way so I followed her. Unfortunately she didnt know it is so dificult and I rolled the hill down and everybody was really amused. Hehehe

This picture shows our favorit slope. Of course it wasnt so flat! It is called Olympic sup. (superior) but we called it Olympic seschup

I do like this composition...

Here comes Vars... and a red slope which was veeeeeeeery long and I liked it






I love the color of the sky...

Vars & Risoul 1850 (1605m - 2750m)

I want to point on this place because I was there whole last week and I have spent a wonderful time there. [Read above ;-)]

Vars a Risoul , the Cottic Alps, France (see map)

The red circle is a residence I was accomodated

The modern ski resort of Risoul (1850 m above sea-level) is together with the neighbouring Vars (1650 m above sea-level) a part of La Foret Blanche (the White Forest) ski region. Thanks to its high elevation top, perfectly situated slopes or accomodation possibilities, it is justly one of the most popular ski resorts in the French Alps.

It can boast about one of the largest snowboard parks - Surfland - a 12 km long area of a descent of 500 m. There is a total number of 115 runs out of which the most interesting are: two (officially classified) slalom runs, La Coni (very difficult black run with an incline up to 43%) and of course a run for the flying kilometre with the record of 244 km/hour (for extra fee available for public).

Although Risoul is not very typical family-orientated resort, you can find lots of easy runs suitable for children in its close proximity. 26 km of cross-country tracks or aprés ski offer of 30 km of suggested hiking or snowshoe walking trails are worth mentioning as well. (says on http://www.zimni-alpy.cz/en/alps/france/vars-a-risoul/)

Happy New Year!!!

New year has begun and a nearly everybody has the feeling he should summarize the last year... There are many music blogs where u can find a lot of different opinions about what was the best song, video, band or concert last year as well u can learn what music is the worst and you shouldn't spend your time with listening to it. There were many publicistic summaries in media about politics and national costings in the end of the old year etc.

These reports made me to think about my own old year and I have realized that I have a bit different sense of sorting things. Probably I am able to say what was the best or worse for me last year but it is nonsense to view it all only black and white because everything depends on everything. I do not think that man should do the same as media or music servers. Why we should divide our lifes into single years? Usualy there are differently long periods in our lifes which have an influence on our other living and which were influenced by a previous life.

For example I sort out my memories acording to a music I had listened to in exact period. Because with a different music come different people and stories. When I moved from home I have had new activities or when I have a relation I live in another way than I am alone... There are many ways how to sort out your memories and moral lessons.

The main thing I wanted to say is that each person should live his own life acording to his own lifeclocks. After each end start sth new and summarize befor the new beggining and do not be affected by a calendar... Because if you point only on some things after a long time you lose the other important tininess from the story...

I hope it is a bit understandable because I don't have the gift to explain my thoughts properly...

David E. Sugar - Just Like Heaven

This guy got me some time ago with a cover of a The Cure song "Just Like Heaven". It is shaky shaky (as one friend of mine would say) and happy-mood-giving song. You should hear it!...

You can download it here with the other remixes and then check his MySpace with more songs and information...