{"id":7286,"date":"2023-02-19T16:04:50","date_gmt":"2023-02-19T16:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/?p=7286"},"modified":"2023-02-19T16:06:12","modified_gmt":"2023-02-19T16:06:12","slug":"sunday-19-february-the-rest-of-the-year-starts-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/sunday-19-february-the-rest-of-the-year-starts-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday 19 February \u2013 The rest of the year starts here \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks have passed since <a href=\"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/sunday-29-january-would-yew-believe-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">my last blog<\/a>, and, from the list of possible reasons when I don\u2019t write, this time we have been away \u2013 again, I hear you howl!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I know it has only been a couple of weeks since we had our BIG adventure in Argentina, but, obviously, we don\u2019t take our holidays in the summer, as we hope to be extremely busy here, so we do so in the quiet times of year, generally late autumn and early spring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In my last blog I showed that Saint Cadou had had a pretty dusting of snow, which we don\u2019t get every year.\u00a0 However, for our latest travels we went somewhere that we hoped would have lots of snow, and we joined some friends in the French Alps for a week skiing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"388\" data-id=\"7277\" data-src=\"https:\/\/b2861967.smushcdn.com\/2861967\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Alps.jpg?lossy=1&strip=1&webp=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7277 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/b2861967.smushcdn.com\/2861967\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Alps.jpg?lossy=1&strip=1&webp=1 640w, https:\/\/b2861967.smushcdn.com\/2861967\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Alps-300x182.jpg?lossy=1&strip=1&webp=1 300w, https:\/\/b2861967.smushcdn.com\/2861967\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Alps-18x12.jpg?lossy=1&strip=1&webp=1 18w, https:\/\/b2861967.smushcdn.com\/2861967\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Alps.jpg?size=512x310&lossy=1&strip=1&webp=1 512w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 640px; 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