L'Angival
Travel Blogs from Bourg Saint Maurice
Chalet Time - Deeep clean!
... air and investigate our surroundings. Found the ski lifts and the shops & bars. Cracked on with more cleaning when we got back. Had dinner round Greg & Emilys with the nannies, 18 in total. After we went for a couple of beers at Bar la Roz with Dave, Louise, , Ant, Meg, Alex & Elaine. Sunday 9 - Finished what we could be bothered to clean in the kitchen although there's not much point because the white walls look like they've been used as ...
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
... repairing and this year equipping two chalets from scratch. Sounds fun spending someone else’s money, but is hard work. I’ve driven the Landrover to Les Arcs to collect timber for a hot tub frame (we got some for ours too for nowt), up and down the mountain for various bits of DIY kit, over to La Plagne for linen being sold off and today we spent 1500€ in IKEA. At least there’s been no cleaning or cooking as one of the chef’s is already here ...
Taking a hike around Mont Blanc
... of shops to indulge our fancy.
On the fourth day we continued up to the head of the Val Ferret, where lush summer pastures are grazed for just 3 months in the year before the livestock are moved down again ahead of winter snows. Climbing up hills to the south we stopped at La Peule - a dairy farm and cafe at 2071 metres – for a long and leisurely lunch, looking out on the encircling sculpted mountains. Further up marmots scampered in the alpine ...