La Plagne

With incredible views looking out onto either side of, um- Of the valley.

So towards Val d'Isère on the left, and then towards Les Arcs and, and, um, yeah, La Plagne and everything to the right.

And we sort of positioned it very carefully so that it wasn't facing, um, the Route de Condout, the, the main road up, going up to Val d'Isère.

We positioned it sort of on a, on the side so that whenever you woke up and went upstairs for your coffee, you c- you just got amazing views of, of, of both sides of the mountain.

But like I said earlier, I think the most special thing is that, uh, is the location.

And it, in fact, even though Zermatt is, like, my favorite ski place to go to as a whole package, not for s- not necessarily just for the skiing or just for this or just for that, but the whole thing, um, my favorite area to go to is by far and away the Tarentaise because it is ridiculous the access that you have there to what are...

Well, I mean, the, um, Les Arcs and La Plagne, what, it's called Paradiski, isn't it, I think?

Yeah.

So I, um, I actually, I called somebody that, uh, that knew somebody in the federation and, uh, and then, yeah, I just kind of I went and had lunch with them and I was like, "Look, that's what I wanna do, you know? How do I even-- how do I start sliding? Like, I don't know, how does it work?" And, um, and they had some, uh, s- and I think it was October or, or December or something like that, and, uh, they invite some young kids to go and try it.

And, um, and they said, "Well, why don't you come along and then, uh, so you get to see how it is and, uh, uh, get to try it out." And I went to La Plagne, which, uh, is in France and, uh, and we went there, and, um, that's where I really had my first, uh, sliding experience, which, uh, which was quite interesting because, you know, in a car, you, you get in the car, you drive out the pits and, you know, you, you feel it out a bit, you know, and you keep going faster and the laps goes on.

And, uh, in the bobsleigh it's quite different because you, you usually start at the middle of the track and you, um, you get there and you're like, "Okay," like, "what do I..." They tell you, "Okay, this corner you do this, you do this, you do this," and all of a sudden you sit in this thing and it's, it's not that you can take it, like, the chill way because when they let go you're just, you're going, you know? And you try to remember what they told you to do.

So, so it was, uh, the first time down it was, um, it was pretty wide- like, eye-opening because I was like, "Okay, this is like totally different," because all of a sudden you're going, like, quite fast.