Here we are back in Meribel Mottaret. The good news is that the Eurostar was so uneventful I’m not going to blog about it… We are staying the other side of Mottaret to the part we have stayed in for the last few years. Here is the view from the window.

The cute thing about these rather faceless Pierre er Vacance apartments is that they are connected to the main centre of Mottaret by a lift which runs 24 hours, so we have easy access to shops and restaurants.

The weather was OK today but a breeze at altitude. We went to La Sittelle (known as Tarte o pomme…) cafe for lunch but it has been taken over by the same people who run (and ruined) Pierre Plats.

The really good self has been replaced by a rather overpriced restaurant. When we came here 25 years ago it didn’t even have inside toilets! This company now owns 6 places in the valley… we will be avoiding them. Really good family run cafes where you can get  a decent lunch are a really important part of skiing for us. They are always expensive, but you are getting good food half way up a mountain! If they are all going to end up the same poor value places then that is rather worrying…

Other than that a great day’s skiing if you don’t mind the 50mph winds on top of Saulire…

Found a much better place for dinner… where is everybody else though?

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