We were up a bit earlier today but we still didn't start ski,ing until 11am we just took our time getting going after breakfast, another beautiful sunny cloud free day thankfully there was plenty snow fell before we arrived and with the snow cannons on at night the ski conditions are still excellent ,the weather forecast says snow on friday and the slopes will be needing by then as some of the shed areas are starting to get a bit icy , we took the olympic cable car up out of town as the plan was to ski the quick black run down into tignes for lunch again, Ali had changed his ski's yesterday to new carvers and felt his ski'ing was better for it , he certainly coped easily with the black run down into tignes it wasn't that difficult a black run only one reasonably steep section of slope near the end of the run where you could fly down the last section right into town , where we stopped for an excellent lunch we all had pizza and a large beer the scenery was beautiful and it was very pleasant to sit and have lunch out in the restaurant terrace, Bob's been wanting to do the big olympic run back down into val d'isere since before we arrived and has been talking of it since we arrived. the sun hits it perfectly at lunch time so we went for it so bob could get it done and take the afternoon of the slopes and spend time with joyce and the boys . and this run has a big sign over the start of it saying danger expert skiers only beyond this point , the start of it was in perfect sunshine it is a very fast and steep run and certainly got the adrenalin pumping and the legs working hard ,we stopped half way down as bob wanted to txt joyce to let her know he was on the way down she was watching us through her binoculars on the apartment balcony apparently my helmet is very distinct and easy to spot !the bottom section of the run is steep and fast and I felt i surely must have beat yesterdays record of 48mph, but it was nowhere near as fast as it felt , bob left us at the bottom and me cammy and ali headed up the solaise bubble cars to ski in the sun as that side of the valley gets plenty sun in the afternoon , we done a few easy runs up there and took the long red run back down to the village which has some icy narrow sections ,which i wouldn't want to be doing later on in the day when tired and lots of people are all getting funnelled down the last run of the day down ,and we decided to call it a day and take the shortcut through the trees at the back of our apartments so we could drop of our skies and boots before apre's ski beers . we put our skis in the locker and went up to the appartment the plan was then to walk along to la petite danois.but we were tired and sleepy and opted to go to the sauna and steam room and a snooze before dinner
Everybody that knows me know how much i love a burns supper , and today is burns day we came prepared and brought some haggis and whisky with us , The dinner was excellent two different types of haggis I done my best at the address to the haggis with one i had got from the farm shop butchers out near calendar , reading the address to a haggis from allistairs phone was very difficult and my respect goes out to the people who can recite those poems from memory the whisky was a nice also a lovely dinner had by all
when we did get out for beers it was 8pm and the town seemed much busier than normal , we went to my favourite l petite danois first then decided to give XV the rugby bar a try , its a cracker little wooden bar we had pints of murphys while football was shown on the big screen surrounded by rugby memorabilia . we met some russians there and thats what ruined our sensible early night ! they started buying us whisky ,we moved on to morris bar and the local band called dominoes were playing they were excellent and we ended up leaving at 01:30 so much for a sensible early
night !
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