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Wining, dining, and designing. This French chateau features a week-long hangout/workshop in the summer that’s open to anyone pretty much, even people who draw square boobs on Etch-a-Sketches. There was an article about it in the new issue of Wallpaper*, which almost convinced me to tell the pilot to divert my plane to Boston and head straight across the Atlantic except that during the winter, they probably turn it into some weird Eyes Wide Shut party house.
If you want to start making your own furniture, reinvent the shoe, or just hit on French chicks in the countryside, then this is for you. And sacrebleu, it’s only about a $grand, too.
This village in the Pyrénées is home to the second-oldest ski resort in France, which is linked with La Mongie to make the largest ski area in the French Pyrénées. Le schwing. It’s about an hour’s drive away from Lourdes, the popular pilgrimage site if you’re into checking out places where little girls saw “visions” centuries ago. If you’re not into that junk, there’s a ton of skiing, obviously, and at night, you can get into a drunken bar brawl with locals in the village or with tourists at the major resort hotels.
Other than that, there’s not much else to do, which is a good thing if you ask me. See you on the slopes.