{"id":35756,"date":"2019-06-19T10:39:47","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T09:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourtour.co.uk\/home\/?p=35756"},"modified":"2021-06-14T17:41:21","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T16:41:21","slug":"a-cool-way-to-buy-a-baguette-plaine-joux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourtour.co.uk\/home\/a-cool-way-to-buy-a-baguette-plaine-joux\/","title":{"rendered":"A Cool Way to Buy a Baguette, Plaine Joux"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Zagan the motorhome&#8217;s facing off with the awe-inspiring, timeless hulk of rock, snow and ice which is the Mont Blanc Massif. It&#8217;s 8:30am and the sun&#8217;s already hot on our windscreen up here in one of the official motorhome parking areas at the Plaine Joux ski resort, complete with electricity, loos and showers (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"N45.95109, E6.73913 (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=loc:45.95109,6.73913\" target=\"_blank\">N45.95109, E6.73913<\/a>). It wasn&#8217;t the easiest drive to get here, but it was very much worth it. We&#8217;re in a Tolkienesque landscape folks, scenery to rival Norway&#8217;s best, and that&#8217;s saying something. I&#8217;ve been lucky enough to stare up at the mighty Mont Blanc more than once in my life, and to even have a <a href=\"https:\/\/ourtour.co.uk\/home\/sunrise-on-top-of-the-world-aiguille-du-midi-chamonix\/\">walk around the Aiguille du Midi<\/a> next to it, but it remains a magnetic scene, magical, seriously inspiring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Mont-Blanc-Massif-from-Plaine-Joux.jpg?fit=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"The Mont Blanc massif viewed from Plaine Joux.\" class=\"wp-image-35772\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Mont-Blanc-Massif-from-Plaine-Joux.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Mont-Blanc-Massif-from-Plaine-Joux-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Mont-Blanc-Massif-from-Plaine-Joux-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Mont-Blanc-Massif-from-Plaine-Joux-705x397.jpg 705w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Mont-Blanc-Massif-from-Plaine-Joux-450x253.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>The Mont Blanc Massif Viewed from Plaine Joux, taken about 100m from where we&#8217;re parked. However impressive it looks in this photo, it&#8217;s more impressive in real life &#8211; it&#8217;s just incredible.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_20190618_145505107_HDR.jpg?fit=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"Motorhome Plaine Joux Mont Blanc Massif Mountain View\" class=\"wp-image-35768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_20190618_145505107_HDR.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_20190618_145505107_HDR-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_20190618_145505107_HDR-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_20190618_145505107_HDR-705x397.jpg 705w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_20190618_145505107_HDR-450x253.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>The motorhome aire at Plaine Joux. There are a few areas spread around the small ski station where you&#8217;re allowed to park for about \u20ac10 a night (depending on whether you have the showers and how many of you there are).<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>So, that drive! Back at Albertville we found this place on park4night, complete with a fistful of five star reviews, mostly one-liners about the epic view of the mountains. Popping it into our satnav with a (comically optimistic it turned out) top speed of 90kph (about 60mph) resulted in a predicted journey time of 90 minutes. Sweet. Had I thought back just a day or two I&#8217;d have remembered hearing one of Pete Matthew&#8217;s podcasts (<a href=\"https:\/\/meaningfulmoney.tv\/\">meaningfulmoney.tv<\/a>) where he explores various human psychological weaknesses, including &#8216;anchoring&#8217;. &#8216;Anchoring&#8217; operates something like this: someone (or something in our case) tells you a journey should take 90 minutes. Later on, you find yourself on a long twisting detour in the Gorges de l&#8217;Arly, or reversing up a mountain road to let an oncoming lorry past or sitting about for half an hour while your glowing brakes cool off having had to slam them on to avoid embedding yourself into the side of another lorry at a hairpin bend. All the time you&#8217;re thinking &#8216;we&#8217;re 3 hours into a 90 minute drive here&#8217; when nope, it was always going to take over 3 hours, it&#8217;s just that you&#8217;re &#8216;anchored&#8217; to that original, unrealistic number.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s done in selling too: if you place a \u00a3100 price tag on a bottle of vintage wine and ask passers-by how much they&#8217;d pay, they offer maybe \u00a390. If you pop a \u00a350 tag on the same bottle and repeat the experiment, folks offer about \u00a340. The exact same bottle! We humans are weird, irrational things eh?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_20190619_075027300_HDR.jpg?fit=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"Cliffs above the motorhome aire parking area Plaine Joux\" class=\"wp-image-35775\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_20190619_075027300_HDR.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_20190619_075027300_HDR-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_20190619_075027300_HDR-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_20190619_075027300_HDR-705x397.jpg 705w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_20190619_075027300_HDR-450x253.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Huge cliffs behind the motorhome aire at Plaine Joux. The line of lorries at the bottom are loaded up with tarmac for the new road surface.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, I ramble. When the brakes had cooled off just south of St-Gervais-les-Bains we crossed the motorway and plunged into an (for us) incomprehensible mass of &#8216;white&#8217; roads, with no obvious route upwards, generally two lanes but not the ones we took! If you&#8217;re heading up here, follow the &#8216;recommended itinerary&#8217; route signs folks, even though they don&#8217;t say where they&#8217;re pointing to. Drive to Plateau d&#8217;Assy and up to Plaine Joux from there. The tarmac should be smooth, as there&#8217;s an army of hulking machines relaying it as I type. We didn&#8217;t mind being woken up by &#8217;em this morning, the views of the mountain are the very best first thing, before the clouds obscure the tops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_20190618_143205068.jpg?fit=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"Hairpin switchback mountain road satnav GPS twisting roads Plaine Joux Alps\" class=\"wp-image-35770\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_20190618_143205068.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_20190618_143205068-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_20190618_143205068-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_20190618_143205068-705x397.jpg 705w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_20190618_143205068-450x253.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Getting close, just a few, more, hairpins&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Arriving here we found ourselves parked up next to Ted, an Australian chap who is the cool baguette buyer referenced in the title. Ted, who refers to himself as &#8216;an old grandad&#8217;, is staying here for a few weeks. Each day he checks the weather forecast for the following day. If all&#8217;s good, he gets up, pulls on a rather large backpack, walks 200m to the edge of the steep hill facing Mont Blanc and walks off. He&#8217;s a paraglider (and runs a paragliding school), as I guess you guessed, and has flown various other methods since his youth. Depending on the thermals he flies around the valleys for potentially hours, before landing far below, buying a baguette and getting a lift or the local bus back up here. That&#8217;s a wonderful way to do your shopping if you ask me!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"754\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/DSC06567.jpg?fit=1024%2C754&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"A paraglider flying with a backdrop of the mont blanc massif\" class=\"wp-image-35761\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/DSC06567.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/DSC06567-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/DSC06567-768x566.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/DSC06567-705x519.jpg 705w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/DSC06567-450x331.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Ted off to get his groceries<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Chatting later Ted told us about the Red Bull X Alps competition. In it athletes compete to fly the full length of the Alps, running back up mountains to take-off areas each time they land. Yep, Ju and I might be jogging up some of these hills but these guys are doing it carrying a huge backpack, and for days on end. They sleep as little as possible. The event&#8217;s taking place as I type, you can see who&#8217;s winning here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redbullxalps.com\/live-tracking.html\">www.redbullxalps.com\/live-tracking.html<\/a>. It looks bonkers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1912\" height=\"916\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/red-bull-x-alps-website.jpg?fit=1024%2C491&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"The Red Bull X Alps Website\" class=\"wp-image-35763\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/red-bull-x-alps-website.jpg 1912w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/red-bull-x-alps-website-300x144.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/red-bull-x-alps-website-768x368.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/red-bull-x-alps-website-1024x491.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/red-bull-x-alps-website-1500x719.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/red-bull-x-alps-website-705x338.jpg 705w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/red-bull-x-alps-website-450x216.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1912px) 100vw, 1912px\" \/><figcaption>The Red Bull X Alps Website<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>If you don&#8217;t fancy launching yourself into thin air, there&#8217;s plenty more to do up here. Walks head off for miles into the Passy Natural Park to my left, or for a shorter detour down to nearby the Lac Vert in among the trees (which has a lovely little path around it). The restaurants are open and have one of the best views in the entire world. You can rent an electric mountain bike and save your legs, or run the mountain trails if you&#8217;re feeling fit (be warned: they&#8217;re steep!). Or you can simply sit and admire the vista, why not, it doesn&#8217;t get any better than this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1241\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Runner-Backdrop-Mont-Blanc-Massif.jpg?fit=1024%2C662&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"Runner hill backdrop of Mont Blanc Massif French Alps\" class=\"wp-image-35765\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Runner-Backdrop-Mont-Blanc-Massif.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Runner-Backdrop-Mont-Blanc-Massif-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Runner-Backdrop-Mont-Blanc-Massif-768x496.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Runner-Backdrop-Mont-Blanc-Massif-1024x662.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Runner-Backdrop-Mont-Blanc-Massif-1500x969.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Runner-Backdrop-Mont-Blanc-Massif-705x456.jpg 705w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Runner-Backdrop-Mont-Blanc-Massif-450x291.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><figcaption>Not a bad place to do some hill repetitions!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;re staying here tonight and then rolling back off the hill tomorrow (assuming the road&#8217;s finished and open), visiting a friend in Chamonix before heading closer to Switzerland. Our campsite outside Bern&#8217;s booked so we&#8217;ll get a motorway vignette and plough across the country on Friday. The Formula E race is on Saturday, which we&#8217;ll go and watch before getting back in the van and heading slowly across the Swiss Alps up towards Zermatt. We&#8217;re already pondering Switzerland&#8217;s massive prices, having paid **cough** **cough** Swiss Francs per night for the Bern campsite already (we never normally book but the ePrix&#8217;s filled up Bern&#8217;s other campsite), and knowing bin bags cost about \u00a33 each. The country&#8217;s a beautiful place to be though, our finances allow for some additional costs, so we&#8217;ll enjoy it anyway. That said, we&#8217;ll be well stocked with grub, LPG and diesel before crossing the border!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Right, time to go watch some men and women fly off a mountain! Ju&#8217;s currently out running and we&#8217;re planning a mountain walk later on, so I&#8217;d best get the sunscreen on too, it&#8217;s roasting hot, even up here at 1340m. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cheers, Jay<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zagan the motorhome&#8217;s facing off with the Mont Blanc Massif. 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