Left: Ria (Chalet Delage) almost finished!
Right: Phil (Chalet Marmottons) battling with the fruit and veg..
Shopping day is always a mission! Thursday is the day we head off down the hill to Moutiers and shop for the week. We buy everything required for the next seven days, except the meat which is delivered directly from the butcher a couple of times a week. The larger chalets require up to 3 trolleys each, so as you can imagine, it can be chaos; trolleys everywhere, boxes heaped around the checkouts and chalet staff flying around as they race to finish quicker each week...
Left: Fi (Chalet Elan) shows off their receipt...
Almost done: Jimmy loads the boxes into the van.
This week was an all time record and one I think will be hard to beat... All staff were back in resort and unloaded into the chalets by 11.30am! This includes the staff who can only leave Courchevel at 9am because they do breakfast before they go... Great going, no longer is shopping day utterly tedious, it is now a challenge to better the week before!!
To celebrate the greatness of the occasion, a group of us headed off to La Tania to enjoy the sunshine and some wonderful pizzas at the Marmottons restaurant. (The creme brulees are superb as well.) There was some confusion when I said glasses on the head for the photo. I meant sunglasses, so that we could see faces in the photo, however, many took this to mean wine glasses....
1 comments:
What fun - I remember it well. And you don't even have Richard packing the boxes for you-some might say a good thing too!?
Deborah
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