No, I’m not in Switzerland! Nor are those my cigarettes or chips in the photo below (the cappuccino is mine, though). Ivan, Maria, Agata and I are in Chamois, a very French region of northern Italy that makes a great day trip from Turin!

We needed to take a cable car to reach this ski town in the mountains. 

Slate roofs. 

Rooster.

We had the entire town to ourselves!