Day 9: Meribliss

Today was a great day. After the overnight snow dump we awoke to clear blue skies and sunshine, as well as a lot of fresh powder. But most importantly we woke up in time for breakfast!

We hit the slopes early about 9:30 and made the most of the fresh runs. It was pretty this morning. The sun was shining bright and the clouds were clearing.

After skiing with sim for an hour or so, she wasn't feeling great in the tummy so she was going to take it easy on the greens.

I headed off to the other side of the valley and up to the peak where Meribel meets St Martins de Belleville. It was another world up there. No trees, just clear fresh snow and sky!

Like being up in the clouds!

The view down to the village as I made my way down was spectacular also. From up here you get a clear view of the scale of this place. It's monstrous!

I made my way back over to the Saluire side if the valley and met up with Sim for lunch at a cute little terrace restaurant called La Cour de Cristal. We sat out on the terrace in the sun and admired the view sipping wine and resting up. We were in our element, albeit for sore legs and knees!

The food was yummy and not bad value either for dining on the mountain. 30euro got you a Salad , plate de jour and dessert de jour. I had the fish of he day while sim had vegetable soup.

Dessert was awesome too! Profiteroles with salted caramel ice cream, caramel and chocolate sauce! Simi had a sample of macorons ! Awsome!

So far our best dining experience on the snow!

We skied some more in the arvo and I took sim over to where I was this morning. Probably wasn't the best place to be in the arvo as the mountain shaded the slopes and the temperature cooled. However it was enjoyable nonetheless.

By the end however Sim was very tired and headed back home! I went up for one last run. I was feeling good however in the shadows of the trees and with the runs being chopped up from a full day of use, I lost sight of a bump and I didn't see it coming and had a pretty big stack! Thank god for my helmet. 

We headed out in the evening and strolled the streets again looking at the menus and window shopping a bit. It's a pretty town. Very alpine in its architecture. The best part is the sound. The trickle of running water in creeks and rivlets is everpresent and the birds in the trees are always making noise too.

Simi enjoyed this chocolate shop - very detailed chocolate art!

We decided on a simple dinner, pasta and lasagna each. Was a nice cosy place with plenty of people in their (including one of our canine friends again - see over simi's shoulder above)

The town is full of Brits. I would say half the people here are English. Half of the sound like Theon from the Iron Islands in Game of Thrones.

So ends a pretty fun day on the snow. Hopefully we get some more good weather and fresh snow in the next few days too.