Visiting the apartment in Samoëns after our local ski area closed.
The Alps are BIG. The Grand Massif is a lot bigger than our local ski area (The Grand Tourmalet)
We left our place in the snow which was unexpected for the time of year and a bit stressful! The poor animals weren’t expecting it and we are still hoping for one more lamb.
Some snow on the way, but roads good. We arrived at the apartment all covered in snow too. Lovely!
Mont Blanc in the background
Samoëns village
Lots of lovely snow!
You can see Mont Blanc a lot. It is so big!
Super groovy lift in Flaine. 50s? 60s?
We ate a lot
Drank qsome
Low down didn’t stay snowy for long and we had a bit of rain. But up higher still plenty of snow.
View from the apartment car park
Cool dudes
You can see that pointy mountain from just about everywhere in Samoëns.
Our apartment is in the left hand building looking in to the garden in the middle of the development
On the funky Flaine lift. You have to run after it to leap on and step off backwards.
The cheese sellers in Samoëns market all gave Poppy lots of cheese rind (and some real cheese!), making her 10th birthday her best day ever!
Walk to a waterfall on a wet day when the ski area was closed (due to wind)
Stocked up on the local (Savoie) white wine. Yum!
Pizza from the very convenient little pizza kiosk a minute from the apartment
We need to do a bit of work to freshen up the apartment as nothing much has been done to it since it was built in 2005
We are planning on adding a terrace to make the outside a bit nicer as well as updating the kitchen and bathroom. But not until next year.
Here’s Doug modeling the Samoëns t-shirt I made for him. Should have done one for Poppy too!
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