Solo skiing at Greolieres

Mathilde had left me for a few days, to go on a school trip to Siciliy with her students. So I was left to my own devices for a while (never a good idea).... As the Cote was blessed with some fine weather this particular Sunday, I decided to hit the slopes for a bit of skiing.

Access to the main stations on the Cote d'Azur (Auron and Isola) was limited due to snow fall and resulting avalanches, so I decided to content myself with Greolieres-les-Neiges. Unfortunately, I wasn't the only person on the Cote d'Azur to have that idea - in fact it seemed as if though pretty much everybody had the same idea as me, given the ridiculous queues I had to endure to get my ski pass and hire my skis. And once I had the skis, I had to queue at the ski lift (things weren't helped by the fact that half of the ski lifts were closed!).

To cut a long story short (too late?), by noon, I had done a measly two ski runs. So not the best day to go skiing, to be honest. The queues got a bit shorter as I headed off to the Western side of the resort, which was, as  usual, less busy. And, there was no denying the fact that the weather was magnificent, the sky was blue and the snow was good!

After lunch (again, a rather long one due to the ridiculously long queues!), I was still determined to make the best of my day, and decided to hit the slopes for a couple of runs, in spite of the deteriorating weather conditions. I eventually gave up and decided to leave at about 4 o'clock, to get ahead of the return traffic.

So not the best ski outing I've done - but still a lot more fun than lying on the sofa watching telly!