Happy New Year!!

Happy New Year one and all!!!
Both yesterday and today have been stunning weather wise and the snow is great. I zoomed up the Solaise express for a quick blast around at lunchtime and it was lovely. Not too busy (as everyone was off eating lunch), and the bitterly cold conditions of the past few days seem to have relented for the day. At one point I was positively hot, that could be down to the fact I was poling along though which I'm not quite used to yet at this stage of the season. Happily poling along though set me of on a new years mission to learn cross country skiing, I reckon it must be a great workout but quite serene at the same time too. As luck would have it, on returning to Persval I ran into two of our guests who'd just been cross country skiing for the morning. They claimed it was knackering. Hmmmmm. Still reckon it's worth a try though in the very near future.
Lunch today was purchased in the very handy 'La Tartine', a little snack bar in the snow square just down from the nursery slopes. It always has a healthy queue of customers and sells very convenient sandwiches, paninis, croque monsieur's and several pastries etc etc etc. We opted for Paninis, always yummy but somewhat dry, especially if you're foolish like me and only take 10 euros out to buy lunch for 2 people. The 10 euros barely covered the paninis and left no change to even buy a drink to share. Big mistake. Regardless, it was nice to sit in deckchairs in the sun and munch away whilst watching the world go by.
The clouds are now starting to roll in and with any luck the snow that is forecast to fall later on tonight will materialize!!