TRAVEL AND LIFESTYLE DIARIES

Last winter we spent our skiing and snowboarding holiday in Vaujany, a little alpine village in the Isere department in the French Alps. The commune of 300 people - Vaujany. Most of these chalets are hotels, aparthotels, and rentals. The Oz-Vaujany gondola lift that can fit up to 160 people. We booked a chalet in a chalet hotel with a ski pass access to the Alpe d’ Huez Grand Domaine ski area which has over 250 kilometers of pistes! And of course, because Vaujany is not one of those popular ski resorts where most winter sports tourists go to, it is less busy. An ideal place for us who seek the peace and quiet. This is at the village square of Vaujany where the lifts are located. Vaujany's panorama is traditional Savoyard studded with wooden chalets across the valley. It is a beautiful site, something that you would expect of the French Alps. Vaujany faces the Le Grand Galbert mountain. The road on the picture is the road entering the village where...

When we go for our yearly winter sports holiday in the Alps, Dutchman and I bring ready-to-heat-up typically Dutch winter meals such as boerenkool and zuurkool (a mash of vegetables and potatoes), complete with rookworst (Dutch smoked sausage), appelmoes (apple compote) and jus (gravy). Our fondue dinner at Le Stou. The quiet streets of the little ski resort village, Vaujany. We enjoy the ready-to-eat Dutch winter meals for 3-4 nights, and other nights we would go to the village and eat out in a restaurant. It’s a nice diversion to the holiday when you eat out, but winter sports holiday isn’t your usual type of holiday where eating out every night is recommended. There are some nights when you just want to stay in your apartment, chalet or hotel. Especially after the first day of skiing when your muscles are all worked up and begging for a nice hot tub bath. It is also very cold outside, with temperatures running below zero, so many just prefer to eat inside, which is ...