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As Font Romeu is about two and a half hours from the house we thought we’d combine ski trip and visit to the house.  We arrived on the Saturday at the house, boy oh boy was the house cold, thankfully Pauline had been and put on the electric heaters but still that first night we sat cuddled up together on the sofa under a duvet - good job we have a close relationship!  The whole ski trip had been under threat as I’d been really ill all the previous week with a chest infection and though I was well enough to come my chest still felt fairly restricted and I hadn’t even bothered to bring my snowblades with me. 

Next day we trundled off in the car with all Martins gear off to Font Romeu where we had rented an appartment - well that certainly didn’t disappoint, a lovely spacious appartment with wonderful terrace and comfy sofas to chill - and more to the point it was warm.  I was well armed with books for the 4 days at the ski resort and Martin went off to ski alone.  Well 2007 hasn’t actually been a good year for snow so far in the Pyrenees and many of the runs were closed - see all those red FERME signs on the piste map - what a disappointment.

So I never actually got to see anything but the apartment and the town, and Martin skied the same runs and was back to the apartment early each afternoon having explored as many runs as he was able.  We have been to the Pyrenees before in Andorra but I think next year it will be back to the Portes de Soleil. 

 

Back to the house for three days and with gas and electric heaters working and ski fleeces on at least we weren’t feeling the cold.   With running our own business the laptop is ever present and we got a message on the blog from Laurence who it appears lives in a hamlet nearby - he was busy fitting an Ikea kitchen accompanied by a fine tub of plonk (Mas Oliver) from the cave in Fougeres - well done him, although he did say the wine was winning - well we can understand that!

We escaped Ikea this trip - but did introduce ourselves to Fly in Bezier on a sofa hunting trip, no sofa success but quite liked the store - will perhaps be back.

I’m looking forward to our next trip at Easter when the weather will be much milder and hopefully the cherry trees will all be in blossom just as they were when we first saw the valley.