L'Aiguille Percee
Travel Blogs from Tignes
Chalet Time - Deeep clean!
... It was our turn to cool tonight but since Sandrine couldn't get to the shops we didn't have a lot of food to work with or practice the menu plan so Tim whipped up a couple of Frittatas, a goats cheese pie, nicoise salad and a chocolate cheesecake - so we had a lovely informal dinner tonight. Sat 8 - Time to start the deep clean, not a fun task did this for 3 hours then popped to Pap 2 for Tomato Soup made by Dave then we went for a walk with Megan to get ...
Training Week
Monday 3 - Had to be at Perdrix 2 for breakfast from 8am then to the training hall for 9 for our first day of training. Met up with Pete & Michelle at the break to say Hi. On our lunch break we had to go back to Perdrix to start prepping for our meal, which was a bit of a nightmare as not all the ingredients we needed were there and finding our way around the kitchen was hard work. In the end though we managed to marinade the Pork, and got ...
Let The Adventure Begin!!
... with the only double bed & ensuite bathroom to ourselves, not sure how we got that really! Our chalet is called Papillon and Ant is staying just a 2 minute walk away in Perdrix with his roomy, Charles. We only had time for a quick shower and change before we walked down to the restaurant through the Narnia Trail (15 minute walk through giant snowy trees - just beautiful) for a free much needed 2 course lunch. After lunch ...
The not so perfect storm
... again and we went up to the station to buy our lift passes at an early bird discounted rate. It seemed a bit incongruous to be thinking about skiing with the sun on the green mountains, but we had only a few more days to wait before all that changed. Stefan had to do battle with a donkey to buy the passes. He was pushing his nose through the glass barrier heehawing at the billeterie staff to give him a biscuit. I think he thought that Stefan was going to get one before him ...
Taking a hike around Mont Blanc
... heavy rain in the night, we left Elena in storm-gear and walked down the valley to Arp Nouvaz to catch a bus to Courmayeur . After a couple of hours exploring the town in the rain, we caught another bus to Peuterey in the Val Veny where, reunited with our mule, we walked up the valley in light drizzle through pine forest to the moraine of the Glacier du Miage. From there we walked up the treeless valley to Refugia Elisabetta, perched on a prominent hillock in front ...