March 2009

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Tuesday, 3rd March 2009

03 Mar 2009 | : France, Skiing

We had another pass for a ski resort in the same valley as Formigueres, so decided to check it out for future reference. The cloud was low as we drove to Puyvalador and we could only see a small area around the bottom of the ski lift, the rest was completely concealed. I counted the cars in the car park and there were 34, so it felt like they had opened the place just for us. The resort isn’t huge, but lots of really nice runs, and you have to hand it to the French – they know a thing or two about piste grooming.

Cloud kept coming and going and a couple of times visibility was so bad I skied off the piste. We skied until it got too slushy and as we were about to finish the sun broke through and created a big blue hole above us. The scenery was stunning, made more so by the sea of cloud to the east and the impressive layers of cloud towards the west. This inspired us to carry on and we skied for another hour. We’d definitely go again.

See photos of today.

Monday, 2nd March 2009

03 Mar 2009 | : France, Skiing

A quick glimpse of scenery at Fromigueres.We got up at the crack of dawn to drive to Targasonne to drop off our gliders at
Ailipse to have them serviced/chutes repacked. The weather forecast was bad, so we headed off to Formigueres to ski. Yet another free ski pass to use up. First time we’ve been there and it’s in the valley NE of Cerdanya. It’s a nice resort for beginners, but the problem was the horizontal lifts, so it took 12 minutes to get to the midway point of the resort, so four runs an hour max. We spent so much time on the lifts we actually started talking work and planned a future project.

Most of the resort was clagged in most of the time and a couple of times we got glimpses of the scenery around, which is beautiful. Runs were ok, but nothing to write home about. We’d go again if we were in the area, but wouldn’t pay for the pleasure.

We spent the night in Font Romeu, ready for another days skiing.

Sunday, 1st March 2009

01 Mar 2009 | : Boring stuff

Forecast for today...And on the 7th day Geoff rested…

We wanted a day off this weekend (it’s been a full on week since the beach on Monday) and happily this coincided with shocking weather. It rained! We did lots of work and Geoff did the hoovering. There’s confetti from the carnival yesterday everywhere – the bedroom, bed, bathroom, shower, pantry, kitchen, etc. I even found a bit in my omelette last night.

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