So, here I am, back in Alpe d’Huez. I know, I know… not exactly what I’d had in mind when I wrote my last post in September.

I can’t deny that quitting my job, abandoning my yoga-teaching plans and leaving The Boyfriend to pay the rent while I hid-out in India or Les Deux Alpes wasn’t a huge temptation; but in the end it seemed all to easy to run from my commitments and turn my back on the challenges I’d set myself.

After all, nobody forced me to move here in the first place. And let’s face it, I’m so blessed to have a job, a home, a partner, clean air, hot water and fresh food. Then of course, there’s the view…