Palafour and Pancakes

Palafour party

This week has been full of fun times! My friends and I took our beers up to the top of one of the runs in Tignes called the Palafour on a sunny afternoon this week and soaked up the rays while listening to music and having snowball fights. It was awesome - and so surreal - to just be chilling in the snow with friends, without any pretenses, just enjoying everyone's company.

Beers in the sun

Despite having to chase a lone snowboard down the mountain, only to find it stuck in a barrier about 500 metres down the piste, we all safely managed to make our way back after our drinking sesh. The ride back down to Brevieres was amazing. Everyone was buzzing and just skied so effortlessly so that, in less than fifteen minutes, we were home.

This week has also included a lovely lunch at one of the village's restaurants, La Sachette. I had a coffee and a scoop of chocolate ice cream. So yummy! Everyone else had pizzas and delicious soups and pastas.

Fortunately I saved space for what was to come next. Pancakes! For it was Shrove Tuesday and everyone knows you have to have pancakes on Shrove Tuesday.

We even made ours with candied lemon served with the obligatory lemon juice and sugar. We all ate them outside on the balcony with the table nicely laid. Very civilized.

The pancake making

We have also had a bit of a room change this week so that I now only share my room with Sarah (and another gorgeous girl called Milly, though she doesn't generally sleep in our room). The room looks so much nicer. We have magazines on top of a silk cloth, with a gold filigree art/deco style mirror in the corner, and amazing images on the walls taken from Elle magazine and In Style. It's so nice to have an inviting space to come back to and means that we can now have people into our rooms just to chill and to have drinks with or to watch a movie with, rather than being embarrassed of the space.

I'm starting to realise just how little time there is left of the season and am making as much use of the time as I can. Even if I am not skiing every day and instead spend the day leisurely going to restaurants and making pancakes, these are all memories I am sure to keep well into the future.