Sometimes booking a ski trip means finding the largest possible area to explore and heading there, allowing for plenty of terrain choices, dining options, housing, and general adventure. If you're looking for the biggest resort possible, Les 3 Vallées in the French Alps is the place for you. Les 3 Vallées is the largest interconnected ski area in the world, connecting 25 summits with 161 ski lifts.
Within thirty minutes of meeting Jerome, a short-shorts-clad French dairy farmer, he had shown me his custom-engraved Opinel knife (his name on the handle), introduced me to his family, introduced me to his goats, and then put me to work milking said goats. Frankly, I had never contemplated a goat's udder before. Much less a full one, swollen with milk
One month after it was first detected in France, there are now 51 recorded cases of the highly contagious cattle virus Dermatose nodulaire contagieuse (known as Lumpy Skin Disease) in the French Alps.
