Running into long lost childhood friend - this time in the middle of the Italian Alps

If you’ve read this you probably think I’m a big fat liar. And you’re not entirely wrong, because this post too is about Chaithra, my school friend that I talk to everyday, who actively mindfully planned to visit and stay with me, not in the middle of Italian Alps but near the French Juras. She was slightly offended that I never told her that the word Jurassic comes from the Juras where dinosaur fossils were first found.

Anyway, one year after we met at her place in Sweden, she visited me. She brought along a lot of Swedish candy (I still have some left). She brought along just enough clothes for a week (thanks low-cost airline). She brought along the warmth only someone who has known you when you were 13 can bring.

And we went around. We went to Annecy and Aosta and