move out day

Move out day from the Chalet. Chloe left with all the others and Zoe and I did the final check with the Chalet people. I'm not sure what the relation is between the crazy owner and these guys, but two mostly toothless dudes showed up in a rental car at 18:00, just in time for me to see the end of stage 19 of the tdf (the one I rode!). They spent a large amount of time shuffling around upstairs and eventually came down, proudly carrying a destroyed lamp from Jon's room and announced that one of the kids had done a lot of the drawing on the walls in there. They also told me that even though we paid for cleaning, we had to take our own trash, glass and recycling. nice.

Zoe and I went up to Chez Finette for one last crepe sucree

Camping?

I've been meaning to camping with Zoe for ages (Alex is still a little reluctant to do the required hiking, but hopefully he will be ready soon!), and planned on taking Zoe today. Unfortunately, the weather was uncooperative, with thunderstorms forecasted for the middle of the night, and rain before that. There isn't a lot of shelter from lightning, and I didn't want a helicopter ride down, so instead we went for a short and rainy hike into the mountains near Valloire, where we set up our new camp stove and had dinner. French camping food is pretty fantastic: Gratin Dauphinois and Riz au lait!