We’ve finally managed to get a forecast for 8 days of consecutive sunshine, so we’re off on holiday. Hooray!

We headed up to the Cerdanya valley to go skiing at Puigmal, for which we have a free pass. One of the things the blog is useful for is to check our opinion on places we’ve been to before, but unfortunately our previous visits to Puigmal precede starting the blog two years ago. Our memory of the place has obviously been somewhat addled with time, as we probably would not have come again had we remembered it correctly, or looked at a piste map before we set off. It’s a big resort and one of the highest in the French Pyrenees, but it only has two chair lifts. To get to the top of the resort (2700m) you have to take one chair lift and three long button lifts, so it takes about half an hour to work your way up there, but only a short time to get down. We forced ourselves to go as high as we could, but the last lift was closed, so we missed out on the best views.

My aversion to button lifts isn’t only due to the time it takes, but having had two operations on both my knees and having little cartilage left, they actually cause a lot of discomfort and it severely shortens our skiing day. We skied most of the day on the runs that were accessible by chair lift or short button lift, but then finished at 3.40pm to save some energy and knee strain for our free ski pass in Andorra tomorrow.

See photos of today.

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