Perched at the first midstation on the Punta Helbronner cable car at a heady heightof 2, 173 metres, Rifugio Pavillon is a traditional mountain refuge with a deckchairlined terrace.
We drove to their health club a few miles away, passing various scenes of devastation and menacing trees and wires that dangled over the road just above carheight.
Cash back sure beats throwing in a car, a boat or a cruise, some of the desperate ploys used during the heightof the real estate bust by real estate developers and individual homeowners alike.