1/ Hubert & the Racer - Camille!A fitting end to our stay with the Teste Family. We shared their first day of the 2008/09 season in December and we were thrilled to enjoy their last day too.
It is closing day for Les Carroz, Samoens and Morillon but the Teste Family decided to ski at Flaine, where the snow is still good. A little top up of snow 2 days ago above 2000m meant that we were still able to have some fresh tracks off-piste. Amazing.
In typical Teste family style several high speed runs on the groomers were mandatory for Hubert (with his shadow Camille hot on his heels) before we were able to tempt them off-piste for a run in the Ger. Serious spring snow greeted us but we enjoyed a couple of runs to say goodbye to our favourite part of the Flaine resort.
Back at the chalet we tucked into a delicious BBQ lunch with the family.
I suspect that Graeme and I, are a disappointment to Hubert & Marie. Our french is still atrocious! But we blame them!! Their english is too good! To make jokes and really have a two-sided laugh, a common language is a must.
We hope that we have inspired them to make the long trip to NZ some day. Hopefully if the NZ$ stays low it will be affordable. But since living here, I can understand why the French are such reluctant travellers. Their country has just about every type of climate imagineable. Beaches, serious mountains, rolling countryside and exciting cities with history, art & culture at every turn. New Zealand and Australia are lovely but I think it would be hard to truly impress the French. We'll have to wait and see!
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