Ready Steady Cook!

Plagne centre ready to go.

   Hello again, we've had quite a busy couple of days since our last blog, we have spent the most part of our days in the larger of the two chalets learning, prepping, tasting, and eating all of the gorgeous food on the menu which we will be serving to paying guests in a week. Foodie highlights thus far have been my coffee and walnut cake that came out of the oven a cake and not a biscuit, baked camembert with Nina's red onion marmalade, lemon and passion fruit possett and the astronomical chocolate and a baileys croissant pudding!  As well as the cooking we have also been kept busy doing shopping trips, wine tasting, snow shovelling, jacuzzi testing, exploring and of course washing up so all in all we're really enjoying ourselves and beginning to settle in.

It has also stopped snowing and we have been treated to a couple of bluebird days and all of the scenery that surrounds us, which is good as took me 20 minutes to dig the car out of the parking bay after just a day of snow. After digging said car out of said big pile of snow we got to spend the yesterday afternoon just relaxing in our apartment in La Plagne centre further up the mountain from the Chalet and were the main ski resort is, was quite cool to take a quick walk around as all the pistes are being prepped and looked amazing yet there was no one around as the season does not open until Saturday, just a shame we could not jump on the boards and carve a few lines.

Dude, where's my car!

Today the world championships for Bob and Skeleton were being held in La Roche where the track is literally about 30 meters from the Chalet so we got free entry to the track where we're hoping to negotiate a free go of the marketing manager as we can sell it to our guests too. It was amazing, we could stand right next to the track! The noise and speed that these guys do and within a few feet from you is unreal so I had to put a video link in, really quite scary!!!! Great Britain were there but I think we finished 7th in the two man bob.

After a couple of days spent in the kitchen we're off cooking duties for a couple of days. Tomorrow Nina and I are off to go shopping for supplies to Bourg Saint Maurice in the morning and in the afternoon we're on a fact find finding mission on tourist activities, restaurants and where everything generally is so we can inform our customers once they arrive. On Sunday it's our day off so Dan our boss is taking us out boarding for the day to get to know the mountain range and where all the good pistes are and also hopefully where all the off piste lines are, def going in the off piste this season. On Monday it's back to practicing the menu but a massage company is visiting the Chalet trying to push some business so we're all getting free massages (sweet). We also found out a friend of Dan's runs a Skidoo business so one evening next week we're going for a night ride around some really remote parts of the Alps on Skidoos for an hour or so but more of that in our next edition of its not all about the snow.

India Signing off.