In the eastern part of the island is an area of more recent volcanism, and in the extreme east is the mountain Le Volcan, one of whose craters, Piton de la Fournaise, has been active several times since 1925.
The Constant Gardener Brokeback Mountain Vers Le Sud Good Night.
Kaolin is named after a mountain, Kao-ling, near Jingdezhen, in Jiangxi province, which has been a centre of porcelain production for 1,000 years.
Winter travellers typically have a different agenda: a popular ski and snowboard destination for years, the mountain slopes of Le Massif now have a slick new hotel and easy train access from the city.
According to one theory, the name derives from mont Réal, as it was spelled in Middle French Montt Royal in modern French), but Cartier's 1535 diary entry, naming the mountain, refers to "le mont Royal".
His English wasn't so good, so I might have misunderstood, but it seemed like he said the mountain was a ling, and the lake below it was a yoni.
Once a fortified mountain redoubt in Molitg-les-Bains, a spa town in the Roussillon area of France, the main building is a four-story hotel with views to the Castellane River.
Jacky Marie, a spry 54-year-old from the tiny town of Favalello (population about 20), was driving us from a remote forested mountain region known as Le Boziu, to the Vallée de la Restonica, where we would spend a half-day hiking up to a pair of glacial lakes and back.
There are about 170 "British chalets" in town, but I used a well-established decades old company called Le Chardon Mountain Lodges that operates five luxury chalets, from 5-10 bedrooms, all in one ski-in/ski/out location.
She started to tell stories of the restaurant--how her father ran the Rue Royale restaurant with her mother, Carmen, while Mere Brazier ran the mountain restaurant; how the Le Col de la Luere space was converted from a wooden bungalow during the war; how she worries that there is no one in the family willing to run the restaurant after she is gone.
Collectively they were also called Le Montagne ("The Mountain").
