Author: Laetitia
The blog has been devoid of cakes for some time, and to help with the depression caused by a lack of activity due to the flu, we went to our favorite cake shop: Aux Petits Gourmands. To make me feel like I’d earned it, I cleaned the windows. :good:
Laurence and Maddie have gone home now, but here's a quick update on the last couple of days of their adventures in Chamonix and Les Houches learning to ski...
Laurence and Maddie have come out to Chamonix to learn to ski.
Yesterday it snowed, but that didn’t stop us. We went down the Valnontey Valley for a bit of fun, but we forgot the camera. Doh! We commiserated with a traditional Italian Pizza. Today was gloriously sunny, so we decided to try the interesting looking Stella Artice. We’d heard that it had an interesting move through …
We had a quiet day today to rest our muscles. Pete worked on the Tremadog guidebook and I learnt some more French. By early afternoon I was getting cabin fever so I decided we should take a walk up the ‘other’ Cogne valley, the Valnontey valley, to check out the conditions of the routes up …
We took a typical Sterling Alpine start for our first day in Cogne. At 10.30am we left the apartment. We’re actually not staying in Cogne itself, we’re a few miles up the road in a very small and very sleepy village called Lillaz. It’s cold up here, but there is a great view of Mont …
There was still snow in the air but we decided we had to take advantage of all the fresh powder that had fallen yesterday and over night. We stayed local and took the super fast Brevent lift. The piste seemed almost empty compared to the mad hoards at Christmas and New Year, and the conditions …
