The problem was we woke late to get going skiing ,the ski locker heater hadn't been on so our boots were cold and damp, we headed out the back of the appartments and down the slope to the solais chair lift ,And this morning our plan was to ski to tignes which meant we had to take the cable car olympique ,we skied over toward tignes passing la folie deuche and took the chairlift up to the high point above tignes and then we made a wee mistake, we took a red run off to the left when we could have taken a direct route down a black , that mistake meant we took a huge circular route with 2-3 chairlifts to wind our way back to very near the bottom of that view point , BUT it was worth it the weather was beautiful the scenery awesome and we had a great time skiing to tignes , we chose a restaurant for lunch and beers and sat in the sun enjoying the scenery . it was a long lunch today of an hour and in reality the food quality for the price wasn't good ,we would have been better paying a little extra to get some proper fresh veg , when we made our way back up to the view point we got our photo taken by the free ski resort website camera and skied down to la folie deuche ,it was bouncing as expected and very hard to ski past without stopping for a beer ,which we done it was fantastic they do put on such a great show with dancers singers sax playing fancy outfits and great music ,I read an article recently about the top apres ski bars in europe and i had been to 5-6 of the top ten ! la folie deuche neither the val desiere or the val thorens were listed ! they have definitely got that wrong whoever wrote that article ! its a fantastic place to have a drink after a days skiing , god knows who makes these lists but if i was to make one of my personal choice of the top ten acres ski in Europe .then it would be up there defo in the top 5 in saying that its not the only good apres ski bar in Val D and we wanted to head over to coco rico to give that a try , it was an icy shaded run down from la folie deuche (which is deferent from val thorens the la folie at val T has a short red easy run in the sun back into town which is what you need after a few sherbets ) . we made our way over to coco rico which is one of the other good apres ski bars here in val D , and it was rocking there was a band playing they were called the slopes ! and they were really good the place was bouncing there was people dancing on the tables ,the downside was the beer was rubbish they only had carlsberg on draught and you got your beer with a big head ,
second day on the slopes and apart from when ali crashed into bob on the side of the slope when poor bob was trying to take a photo nobody has fell ! which our friend danny would say if you aint falling your not trying , but i did have a big fall on the way to the loo at coco rico! plastic ski boots on wet tiles while moving at speed for a required pee stop is a recipe for disaster and i hit the ground hard ! fortunately nothing broken and no damage done except to my pride , our stats for todays skiing were ok but not great ,top speed of 41mph and we never covered anywhere near as much distance as we would normally have done due to late start long lunch and beer stops
Joyce had cooked us a fantastic curry , we are lucky to have this size of crew and its a real bonus having a family environment to come home to ,home made chicken curry round the big table with the family and a glass of wine was excellent,
after dinner me cammy and ali headed into town we got the bus down and headed to our favourite bar the petite danoise . which was good we caught happy hour 10-11 and bought 6 beers decent real bears so it was ace , but it was quiet ! theres a free local leaflet telling you whats on called the echo and it said there was a band on in a bar called moris , we headed over there and what a find it was .the band were called the killer bees and they were excellent there was also a decent range of beers to buy and theres beer ping pong all night another excellent bar in val D found,
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