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Exploring Les Arcs
Skiing holidays don’t allow much time for learning about the places we visit. We scramble off a plan or a train and into a chalet, an apartment or a hotel. We rush to collect our skis and our ski passes. Assuming the weather is OK, we scramble to make the first lift, and try to maximise the time we have on the slopes. All our attention is on how to ski better, and how to ski more.
But the places we go to ski are fascinating places in their own right. They have complex histories and wonderful people. This little book will put you on the road to discovering some of this.
It is mostly about context. It is not a comprehensive travel guide. It won’t tell you where to stay, or where to eat and drink. It won’t tell you in detail where to ski, either, although it will provide some broad suggestions, and some tips on, for example, the best places to picnic (including the indoor picnic venues).
This book is a personal project, covering an area we love, and dictated solely by our own whims and fancies. We hope it will tickle yours.
But the places we go to ski are fascinating places in their own right. They have complex histories and wonderful people. This little book will put you on the road to discovering some of this.
It is mostly about context. It is not a comprehensive travel guide. It won’t tell you where to stay, or where to eat and drink. It won’t tell you in detail where to ski, either, although it will provide some broad suggestions, and some tips on, for example, the best places to picnic (including the indoor picnic venues).
This book is a personal project, covering an area we love, and dictated solely by our own whims and fancies. We hope it will tickle yours.
48 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 26, 2022
About the author
Calum Chace
40 books68 followersCalum studied philosophy at Oxford University, where he discovered that the science fiction he had been reading since early boyhood is actually philosophy in fancy dress.
He published "Surviving AI", a non-fiction review of the promise and peril of artificial intelligence in September 2015. Previously, he published "Pandora's Brain", a novel about the first conscious machine.
He is a regular speaker on artificial intelligence and related technologies, and runs a blog on the subject at www.pandoras-brain.com.
He is also the co-author of The Internet Startup Bible, a business best-seller published by Random House in 2000.
Prior to writing Pandora's Brain, Calum had a 30-year career in business, in which he was a marketer, a strategy consultant and a CEO.
He lives in the UK and Spain with his partner, a director of a design school, and their son.
He published "Surviving AI", a non-fiction review of the promise and peril of artificial intelligence in September 2015. Previously, he published "Pandora's Brain", a novel about the first conscious machine.
He is a regular speaker on artificial intelligence and related technologies, and runs a blog on the subject at www.pandoras-brain.com.
He is also the co-author of The Internet Startup Bible, a business best-seller published by Random House in 2000.
Prior to writing Pandora's Brain, Calum had a 30-year career in business, in which he was a marketer, a strategy consultant and a CEO.
He lives in the UK and Spain with his partner, a director of a design school, and their son.
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