My grand-parents (the parents of my father ) live in St-Girons, a little town nearby Toulouse (about 100 km) and at 40 km from Foix, just in the Pyrenées Ariège. There, you could enjoy the view over the mountains, the small villages whose houses have slate roofs, walls in stones.
The handscape is really nice and mosthy in winter when the snow recovers everything.
So, we are about 30 km from the sky resort. I have so many records from the time I was a little girl of 4 years crying on my skis while my father was trying to convince me to follow him.
Then later on , I was really enjoying skying with my friends, or my cousins.
Well, I can say without any pride that I manage quite well skying. It is so crazy when you let yourself be taken by the speed down the runs.
I don't like very much to take the chairlifts but we can not do otherwise.
We make fun of each others when one of us falls, or when we decide to make a competition, or other we are just bored skying and start fighting with the snowballs!!
At the end of the day when we all stop, we go and eat pancakes together and it is really fun.