Mon Dieu! It was windy last night!

As the sun set and the wind died away we were looking forward to a nice quiet night half way up a mountain............WRONG WRONG WRONG!  Somewhere after midnight the wind got up, I don't just mean windy...........I mean REALLY REALLY windy.  The van was rocking from side to side and we were being battered by gale force wind and high speed sand and grit blasting!  It got so bad that at 4:30 this morning we got up and drove down the mountain pass to La Mongie and parked up in an empty ski car park and went back to bed (only 40mph winds down there but at least no sandblasting!)

In the morning we woke up in an empty car park to clear blue sky..........so we drove back up to the top!

The view last night as the sun set

And our 'safe haven' that we woke up to this morning