restaurants

Day at Embrun
Sue and I spent the day at [tag-tec]Embrun[/tag-tec] where I treated Sue to lunch as a belated birthday present, her having been in Spain for the actual day. After weeks of unsettled weather, today was gorgeous and unusually muggy. We sat in the main square of Place Barthelon named after a Eugène Barthelon who was born in the area in 1833 and who having made his fortune at Marseille bequeathed several properties to the commune in his will. Originally this square had been called Saint-Pierre after the name of a church that was destroyed in 1585. We enjoyed the menu of the day starting with melon with smoked ham, followed by fresh haddock in a creamy seafood sauce and “courgettes au gratin”, and finally a fruit salad for me and a fromage frais with a blueberry coulis for Sue, to finish. (…)

The new Thai Restaurant in Chantemerle
Chris and I were up on the first lift again to make the first tracks in the powder. We had great fun all morning and then skied over to the Bivouac Restaurant to meet Hans who is here with his daughter Becky. Rachel’s John also joined us. After lunch, despite the whiteout we took them down our favourite and little known off piste red, which they all enjoyed. Becky, now 10, is a good little skier and managed very well. Unfortunately the next lift up broke down and we sat for ages, so Hans had to take Becky into the Fermier for another hot drink at which point we took our leave. (…)

tartiflette
Saturday 10th March
I dropped Alex off at 8:30 by the Luc Alphand black run as Lin and Chris had told him that the best time to go down was early in the morning. (…)

Tonight we went to the Mexican
Due to lack of snow, the pistes are becoming very icy which is not nice at all. At the top of mountain, some of them are more like ice skating rinks. (…)