This is more like it.

Sunshine with the odd cloud wandering around. After several days of snow there is a lot of fresh powder easily accessible at the sides of the pistes, and we even found a few sections that were completely untouched to ski in. This kind of snow requires a completely different technique, which I doubt I will ever master, but I can at least embarrass my children by trying.

We skied mainly in the Belleville valley above Les Menuires and St Martin de Belleville, the sunshine on the tops, usually above any clouds was great.  Mainly for Richard’s benefit here is an HD video of Jerusalem – top to bottom in 5 minutes at a maximum speed of 30.8 mph (according to GPS). Have I mentioned the sunshine?

http://youtu.be/-NuRPiRcGIY&rel=0

If you are reading this on Wednesday evening it might not have finished uploading… internet connectivity is not stunning here.

All in all a fine day’s skiing

Our apartment is privately owned, the local agency we rent it from describes it using some agency speak that means “could do with a bit of a refurb” however it has the overwhelming advantage of location. You could ski into the locker room (stopping and opening the door is very much recommended), and within about 100m we have a ski hire shop (of the more helpful variety), a brilliant restaurant that also does takeaway pizza, and a supermarket. This does rotisserie chickens, a brilliant concept if you can a) think ahead enough to order one and b) speak French. Of course I can do neither of these things… but someone in the party can, so this evening we ordered one of these instead of eating out. I resisted the temptation to photograph it…