Geoff writes: today we drove into France to ski at Formigueres. We’ve been there once before, and it seemed ok. This time though, the snow was thin, and most of the time on the pistes we spent skiing fairly slowly to dodge all the stones. The two chair lifts are also very slow, and don’t go up very steeply, so you spend a long time sitting in them, for a relatively short vertical descent. We did have an educational time though, when we spent the 14 minutes on one lift with seven year old twins, trying to muddle through chatting in our non-existent French and their school English. With pointing we collectively managed to name the colours, ski equipment, and surroundings in both French and English. They were in fits of laughter at the English word ‘goggles’.

Judith did manage to fall and has a few bruises now and a sore arm. For once, she wasn’t skiing at 80km/h down the piste; she was walking across the cafe terrace to buy the coffee and slipped on the wet decking. Fortunately, the French army were there to help her up, since I didn’t hear her pathetic whimpering.

After coffee, we found a piste which wasn’t covered in stones, and was a nice red run, so we did that a few times, then finished, heading off to a hotel in Andorra.

The weather was better than we expected – sunny a lot of the day, and quite warm, when we had been expecting snow. Tomorrow should be good in Arinsal.
See photos of today.

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