About

Written from Briançon

This site is written and published from Briançon, in the Hautes-Alpes, by people who live here year-round. Not a content agency, not a travel writer passing through: the groceries, ski passes, tax office and fibre connection behind these pages are all in the postcode being written about.

Why it exists

The Southern French Alps are strangely invisible in English. The Northern Alps have decades of English-language coverage; down here, the best information is French-only, out of date, or machine-translated. Meanwhile Briançon is a real, year-round town — UNESCO-listed, sun-soaked, far more affordable than the famous names — and with the 2030 Winter Games coming to the region, more English speakers than ever will be looking this way. Someone local should give them the honest version. That's this site.

Where we cover

The Southern French Alps are much more than one valley: the Hautes-Alpes from the Briançonnais down through the Vallouise, the Queyras, the Guillestrois, the Embrunais around Serre-Ponçon and the Champsaur; the Ubaye and Barcelonnette in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence; the Mercantour high country beyond. Our rule is simple: we only publish what we can verify first-hand, so coverage grows outward from Briançon — where we live — one valley at a time. If an area isn't covered yet, that's honesty, not oversight.

How the content is made

Drafting is AI-assisted — that part we automate. What we don't automate: every published page is verified first-hand, locally, by a human who lives here — real timetables, real prices, real seasons, our own photos — and dated so you know how fresh it is. Pages still marked draft haven't cleared that bar yet, and are excluded from search engines until they do.

Independence & how this site earns

The site is independently published. It may earn from clearly-disclosed affiliate links, from introducing readers (with their explicit consent) to vetted local professionals, and from its publisher's own coliving, Cloud Citadel — always disclosed where it appears. Nobody pays to be recommended.