There’s something about walking next to a cross country skiing piste – it just makes you want to have a go…  Certainly it always looks much easier, as the skiers glide by while you struggle knee deep in the snow!

If you’ve never tried it you should give it a go.  There are two types – the classic or traditional style, where your skis run along in pre-prepared grooves, and the skating style, which I’ve never tried, but I think it requires a little more practice, and effort, to get the technique right.

Chalet Les Criquets is the 5th to the left of the church steeple.

This looked like a small ice Christmas tree.

These crystals had ‘grown’ overnight in the sub-zero temperatures.