Day 12 - Entre Deux Eaux to Termignon - Bad Weather

For the last 3 days or say, the forecasts have shown a nasty weather system and it finally arrived in the night. We awoke in the clouds with heavy rain falling and we could see new snow from around 2600m - about the height of the cols we were due to cross. We lingered over breakfast and packing up, hoping the weather would sort itself out. By the time we were ready to leave, the rain had almost stopped and we were just out of the clouds. 

We decided to change to a lower level route, so we booked a hotel in Termignon (in the Arc valley) and headed in that direction. As we hiked the weather cleared up and we were soon able to take off our rain gear. Snowy peaks started poking through the clouds and it turned into a very pleasant day's (mostly downhill) hiking. 

Our hotel (L'Auberge La Turra) was very nice. Severine and David had taken it over recently and they made us very welcome - the rooms, food and price were all excellent. So far we've had a fair bit of bad weather on the trip, but we've managed to work around it and it hasn't spoiled any of our days.