I got up and organised and had another coffee and we headed off to the ski hire shop again to pick up our skis and boots ,the plan today was to ski avoriaz area but stu had a lesson booked again so we left him to head up to the top of le pleney while we headed for a bus to avoriaz ,I was hoping it would be the fun train bus but it wasn't it was a standard bus ,there was a bunch of guys heading up with tweed jackets and flat caps so funny , the bus arrived about 30 passengers got on then bob went on and the driver shut the door on me and Ali ! Bob was waving Ali was shouting but off the bus went !
We arrived in avoriaz and took the big green cable car with 65 others and started up the avoriaz bowl , it's something that in hindsight you could say it was a stupid idea to ski somewhere where the sun is in the opposite valley and the wind is blowing right up the valley bowl !,, but we didn't have hindsight and I am gonna say avoriaz was rubbish the slopes seemed predominately narrow blues in the shade , it was as far as skiing went a disappointing morning , we did take the cable car up to the the Swiss border and considered skiing the Swiss wall down the other valley we had a group discussion and decided it was a bad idea ,FOR TODAY ! The weather was rubbish very overcast rubbish visibility windy ,and I'm short sighted .so we skied all the way back down to the bus station ,and the best run off the day was 3quarters way down the coup du monde that we done ,
We had arranged to meet stu at 2pm at the Viking where his lesson finished , me and Ali so nearly booked the Viking for last years holiday so we wanted to see what we nearly booked ,I'm glad we never it woulda made a great weekend with a your lady friend but not good with the boys .we had a look at their lunch menu it was expensive and not that exciting so we headed over the slope to chalet du nabor where the 3 Scotsman ordered carbonara and beer stu ordered salad and diet coke , the carbonara came French style with a raw egg in the middle delicious ,
Stu is ski,ing so much better and we headed of to le gets ,it will come as no surprise to anyone who knows bob that by the end of the day yet again we were virtually the last group of the slopes , stu had to get his hired equipment back to the shop for 6 it was dark and we were all ready for a beer poor stu ended up phoning a taxi .me bob and Ali had a €3.50 pint of grolsch then went to spar to buy bread milk and stuff to make chilli
We all met up at dixies and had a fantastic couple of hours listening to the dixiemicks it's a possibility it's their last night here after 15yr of gigging in dixies ! One of thebandcis off to tour America with an unknown famous Irish band . What a great time we had dancing on the tables with the dixiemicks playing some rocking tunes fantastic end to a fab day on the slopes
We headed home to apartment and cooked a fantastic pot of chilli with a glass of wine and crusty white French bread its stu's last night but he has had enough ! he is up at 8am BUT ! Ali is being mr sensible uncle lol .me and bob got showered and dressed after dinner and blogging her from dixies at 12:45 !
cracking pics kenny
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