TRAVEL AND LIFESTYLE DIARIES

Vaujany is a small village and there are only a handful restaurants here that are open in the evening. Many wintersport holidaymakers coming here usually opt for self-catering or have their meals catered by the chalet apartment or hotel they are staying. Now Dutchman and I are always open to any combinations of catering. We mostly self-cater though, bringing with us some winter dishes from the Netherlands, simply because we love eating them in the cold Alps. Dutch cuisine is not for the gourmet foodies but its comfort food for us especially during wintertime. I am talking about you boerenkool, zuurkool and hutspot with rookworst. Yum! But to break the monotony, we go out and eat at restaurants on some evenings. Our dinner spread at La Remise. Nicely plated huh? We have also experienced our meals being catered before. We quite liked it as well because it was convenient and hassle free. A wintersport holiday is not a summer holiday or a city trip where you hit the restaurant...

This is when we stand in awe of the power and beauty of mother nature. She makes you feel insignificant and vulnerable, like a little child brought down to her knees for disobedience. But she is also generous and amazing. You become speechless when you stare at her, emboldened and renewed at her display of wonder. You just simply have to admire her in all her power and glory. Yes, that is mother nature.  I do not always get to enjoy this kind of theatrical display of nature, so whenever I witness something like this, I always cherish these stunning and fleeting nature moments. One morning, I woke up with heavy mist in the mountain ski resort village of Vaujany. The small alpine village in the Isere valley lay under a very thick gray overcast. Because of this I told the Dutchman that I will go for a skiing day off but will go up the mountains to check out the restaurant terraces, and perhaps have a drink and lunch there. So I boarded the Vaujany gondola-lift that bring...

I usually take a day off skiing during wintersport holiday but this does not mean I stay away from the pistes. In fact I love visiting them on foot with my normal snow boots and not with ski boots and skis! By the way, in Europe we call slopes pistes here. This is my view on the piste whilst lunching. I can see skiers and snowboarders passing through and coming down the pistes from the Les Airelles terrace.  One of the things I look forward to is being able to hop from one mountain restaurant terrace to another, both skiing and on foot. And I just love people watching from the outdoor terrace as well! Not just any kind of people watching though, but skiers and snowboarders watching. It is very entertaining. In Vaujany, on the Montfrais terrain, you will find 3 cafe restaurant terraces, and all three are situated on different altitudes with approximately 500 meters distance from each other. The first restaurant you will encounter from the piste if you are coming from l...

My skiing mugshot yesterday on a lovely blue skies sunny day here in the French Alps. This was taken in Montfrais 1650 ski area in Vaujany. You can get here with the Montfrais gondola from Vaujany 1250, but we actually came here skiing from l'Álpette 2050 following the blue slopes of Chalets and Les Travers. The area is not so huge. The slope Vaujaniate from Montfrais going to La Vilette village and the halfway-through stop of the Montfrais-Vaujany gondola was not really nice. It was a bit sketchy with icy snow crumbles. I heard it became worse the day after. Some skiers were complaining that you could skate on it. Eww. Anyway, I came back here today to have lunch at one of the restaurant terraces on this particular slope =) Here is a quick look at the ski map: Piste Map of Alpe d'Huez Grand Domaine Ski Resort (which Vaujany is a part of). Travel Period: January 2017 Destination: Vaujany (Isere - Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes), France Keep in touch and follow me on Face...

Salut. Bonsoir. I am currently in the French Alps! We are staying in one of the ski villages of Alpe d'Huez Grande Domaine Ski Resort. Our village is smaller and does not really have the best connections to the slopes around the Alpe d'Huez bowl and beyond so it was a bit tricky for us this Sunday because we started quite late. It was just before lunch time when we picked up our ski passes and hit the Alpe d'Huez main ski area. The weather was very erratic. We had sun and blue skies, as well as wind and overcast. Moi in action today. This is the piste map (slopes) of Alpe d'Huez Grand Domaine Ski Resort:  Alpe d'Huez Grand Domaine Ski Piste Map From Vaujany, we took the Vaujany-Alpette and then the Alpette-Rousses gondola-lifts to reach the Dome Des Petite Rousses 2800 station. We then did a couple of ski runs which was really nice. The snow was great; it was powder snow quality. Because it is our first time at this ski resort we were not that fam...