Snow Trippin: Wot, no guests?!

Saturday, 14 January 2012

Wot, no guests?!

Change over day and our Celtic friends were up and gone for 6 am with the 4 hour drive back to Lyon airport. We did breakfast for them at 5.30 am. But no worries as today we could jump back into bed. This wasn't going to be our normal change over day. Why? Because we had no guests booked in for the forthcoming week! A week off!!! What luxury, a week of lazying and skiing.

Val d'Isere celebrated our no guest week with the opening of the winter tour of the BMW Polo Masters Tour 2012 so as we had no dinner service we went down to have a look. It was minis 12 with a fresh northerly so rugged up was essential, but the free vin chaud certainly kept us warm. From the 11th to the 14th of January the resort hosts this event. For three days, four teams of three riders compete at dusk on a snow covered illuminated arena at the foot of the Face de Bellevarde in an attempt to win the Barmes de l'Ours Trophy. It was weird to see horses on snow but, apparently, it was a well matched contest and well worth standing in the cold for!

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