Travel Throwback - Snowboarding Silence

So a couple of years ago before I tore my ACL, I went with a couple of friends from Falmouth University on a snowboarding trip to Val d'isere in France. It was an amazing 10 days of pure snowboarding fun and a few nights of partying to boot. Over the duration of the trip, of course I took loads of photos but back then technology was not as reliable as it is today and I remember everyones camera's not working in the -16 degrees temperatures out on the pistes, which is why I love the two images below, they were taken on my old 1970's Pentax Asahi film camera and they capture a sort of silence and beauty about boarding off piste with friends. I am still in the process of re-scanning these negatives and will share more with you soon, also joining up with the lovely Travel Tuesday linky over on The Compass Rose ...

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France on Film - Travel Tuesday

This weeks travel tuesday is about Laura's time living and working in Nice in the South of France. In 2009 I spent a few wonderful month living on the French Rivera working in a vibrant converted Monastery which had been turned into a hotel which was perched on a hill over-looking the city of Nice. The Hotel attracted mainly young travels and language exchange students and I made some great friends, before moving on to exploring other parts of europe. The South of France is really different to the hectic buzz of Paris and captures a really laid back but also luxurious feel to it, with lovely white sanded beaches, inspiring landscapes and lovely fresh baguettes from a bakery found on every corner. This will not be the last South of France post but in this post I wanted to share the photos I shot on my old film camera using black and white film, too this day I still use a lot of analogue film, especially when we travel... Archway to Promenade des Anglais Spending the evening......

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