"Jour commencer un pain frais et la confiture framboise par Jean Steele, Bergerac"
Very important to start the day well. And of course you can't go wrong with a beautiful breakfast of fresh bread from our local bakery topped with some of Jean's delicious Bramble Jam she slipped into our suitcases when we left. Delicious.
Interestingly, the most dangerous thing I do is to walk to the village to get the bread each morning. I do not exaggerate. The Flaine rock holes have nothing on the sneaky icy patches on our little road. The walk down is steep and I have regularly slipped and landed inelegantly in a crumpled pile by the side of the road. To top it off this morning, the traffic on the lower half of our normally quiet laneway had increased markedly. Even at 7:30am there were cars, mini-buses and vans roaring their way up the steep hill! I only had a split second to dive off the road when a delivery van hurtled towards me. I got such a fright that I ended up tumbling down the hillside in the snow. Try to picture that famous scene with Dudley Moore in the movie "10" and you will get the idea. I survived, dusted off most of the snow and although not recommended, it proved to be quite a good short cut to the bakery.
"Zoom, zoom!!
Piste city today! On the slopes nice and early again and we decided to try out one of the other resorts, Morillon. No really steep runs, but some incredibly long tree-lined piste runs. After banging our way through steep deep snow all week, it made a nice change. Actually, we did admit to each other the other night, as we stretched our tired limbs, that we were very glad we did not leave this adventure any longer - I'm not sure our bodies could take it.
Our cunning plan during this busy period is to ski first run, with a break at 11'ish for a "petit cafe noir et chocolat chaud" and then ski through the lunch period and finish at about 2pm to head home for lunch.
I'm not really sure what happened here? Left arm is under the body, right leg splayed uphill and left leg buried in the snow! Must have been a "snow marmot" (European equivalent of the infamous OZ snow snake!)
2 comments:
Hi Andy & Graeme, Helen and Robert here in Napier with the whole Dudfield-Raper clan for Lucie's and Hamish's wedding tomorrow at the Mission.
Stephanie challenged us to find the blog as she could not so here we are and we have!
We will keep in touch with you when we can. How long are you over there for or is that an unanswerable question!
Well done you for finding our blog. Give Steph & girls a big hug for us. Gra had a long chat with Bruce the other day which was good for the for the two ol' fellows. While we are having a seriously fun time. We will definitely be returning to God's Own - NZ. No worries on that score! Great to hear from you.
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