The tourist office for Bourg and Les Arcs is at (33-4) 79.07.12.57.
He also is the artistic director of Les Arcs European Film Festival, held at Les Arcs ski resort in France, and ran the art-house video store Videosphere in Paris.
Up, down, across at Les Arcs and La Plagne Getting There Les Arcs and La Plagne are in the Savoy region of France, along the Italian border about 90 miles south of Geneva and 120 miles east of Lyon.
Most visitors are expected to buy a pass allowing them to spend one day of six skiing in Les Arcs if they are staying in Les Arcs - or vice versa.
Back in the Alps, Les Arcs offers an option for just €10 every Thursday outside high season.
As in La Plagne, much of the accommodation in the three high-altitude stations of Les Arcs is in apartments.
It snowed last weekend across the French Alps; there's three metres at the top in Avoriaz and Argentière and nearly four at Les Arcs.
In the late 1980s, as part of an exchange program, Melamed worked on the ski patrol in Les Arcs, France, where workers are unionized.
In the same 2009/10 brochure which launched Crystal Ski Plus, a holiday in Andorra, at the resort of Arinsal, costs £140 less than its equivalent in Les Arcs.
But we were in no rush to get down the hill, and opted instead for the next run over, named Robert Blanc, after a founder of Les Arcs.
The course at Les Arcs is one of the fastest; an Austrian, Harry Egger, holds the speed record of just over 154 miles an hour, set there in 1999.
