1. Today the ski instructors are wearing greatcoats against the falling snow.
2. At the food market, an English man without much French explains to the cashier that he is leaving tonight and that he is grateful for all her help.
2b. We go home a rather long way, despite the rain, wandering among the chalets. I catch the scents of wood smoke and of goats.
3. There is a spot from where, by some quirk of mountain acoustics, I can hear the piste bashers working far above us and over the valley.
