Ferme De Montagne
Travel Blogs from Les Gets
Chffing down
So today I acheived most of the things that defeated me yesterday. I have had a key cut so I get use our ski locker. It may have cost 12.50CHF (that would be Swiss Francs or Chuffs as they are know here) but I weighed up the other option of lugging ski kit to apartment door, hoping someone has left me a key before trekking downstairs and up again all season. A bargin when you think about ...
A nice gentle start on the slopes
... weird. I kept freaking out that I was going to miss the chance to grab my skis before the bubble disappeared. Skiing in Verbier is much higher than La Ros, Las Attelas is 2750ish not the 2250 I'm used to. It's a lot busier here too.
I was hoping for a gentle start to my season, a poddle about on the greens and maybe some blues to start. Yeah well that didn't happen! Straight onto reds. I pretty much stacked it on every run. A particularly good one ...
Jobs done=none,photos taken=many!
... of whenever you can't get there. So now I know where to wash my clothes,how to pay for it but still have no clean clothes and will be handwashing some undies pretty soon!
Migros website states it doesn't closed for lunch on Saturdays-awesome! I can get some food. Erm, no they do actually close for lunch on Saturdays.
I have found our ski locker but I don't a key for it.
So I'm giving up on trying to ...
Team dinner at 14
... thai crab cakes and mini tartiflette. Once we are sat at the impecably laid table the starter is marinated mackeral filets on wasabi puree, followed by the most incredible roast belly pork on parsnip puree with parsnip crisps-incredible! The only thing I left on the plate was the cracking, not because it wasn't tasty but for fear of shooting it across the table into the lap of our ettiquette teacher-I figured that might not be a good thing. Then whipped brie de meaux with the ...
Slavery in a beautiful place
... Wednesday’s to look forward to too……………& #8230;…………̷ 0;…………… 8230;…..our very well earned day off!!!
Our resort is part of the Portes de Soleil area which includes Morzine and Avoriaz, which we visited on our second day off, the latter seems to be just a mountain top all ski-in and ski out without much of a heart but great skiing I am told, George went ...
Amenities
- Restaurant
- Free High-Speed Internet
- Free parking