I have eaten nothing healthy in the past 48 hours.  I've lived on chocolate, bread, cheese and red wine.  Fortunately I've also hiked and snowshoed twice.  We are up in the mountains and have rented an tiny apartment in Pragelato.  Grace and C are skiing and I'm on the sofa looking out at the town hall square and the mountains behind.  I can see clear to France.  It's freakin' cold but I'm all toasty with my pj's and bottle!  GP and I snowshoed yesterday up our regular route, stopped at the top for our regular hot chocolate (him) and cappuccino (me) and then back again.  Today for something different we tried a trail up behind the village but ended up carrying our snowshoes as there wasn't enough snow.  We hiked up to a teeny enclave called Grand Puy which means big nit.  I hope it was so called because it isn't much bigger than a large nit as the other possibilities are too horrible for words...  Anywho.    Straight up the trail was only about 1.5 miles but it was very steep and me wee legs ache.  We took the 3 miles but much easier road back down.  The photos below I took on my phone and I had taken all sorts with my camera but unfortunately it died and took all the photos with it!  Dern technology.  xxoo me

the village Townhall square with our apartment w/brown door

in town

view looking down on village from hike to "big nit"