After my nightshift of terrifyingly drunk drivers (them, not me!), I got back home about 9am, faffed about a bit and went skiing!
TBF, didn't really want to ski with hundreds of hungover tourists, so planned to go to the top of a mountain by cable car (so I didn't 'have' to ski back down!) and have coffee and a snack of some sort until lunchtime when the tourists all head for the restaurants and then I'd come home!!
But, the restaurant is still run (or at least worked) by people who really shouldn't do customer service!! I'm pretty recognisable after all the years I've been here, and I did say I'd just finished work, but when I asked the guy if they did any kind of snacks he just said "non, rien". With no eye contact. And after I'd ordered a coffee! (No actual issue with them not doing food, it was the attitude about it. And the sugar, and the spoon -- then as I was leaving I noticed a new snack bar opened at the side which I'm pretty sure is run by the same restaurant
Wasn't open as I arrived but had opened as I sat there trying to get the coffee to a point it could be drunk by me!!
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When he got back with the coffee (of which a fair amount was in the saucer) I had to ask for sugar, and then said I'd go get a spoon when the sugar was dumped on my table!! No no, I'll get it he said in a huff. By the time I had both sugar and a spoon my coffee was barely warm and TBF, that short tether my good humour has was awful short!!
So I drank some coffee then skied down to a lift that takes me up to another mountain top resto.
Sad thing about the first one is that my brother and his wife went there about 5 years or so ago and couldn't get served by anyone because the person serving in the area they had sat wouldn't serve them and no one else would because they weren't in the area for anyone else
I was hoping it was nicer simply because it's a good place to be able to go with peeps that don't ski. But that won't be happening now
Anyway - went to the other place (narrowly missing being taken out by a skier going very very fast by the bottom of two lifts!! It's been a day of near misses! Not gonna have any luck left for 2025!!). And - no, they don't start food service until midday (was about 10.30) but the guy went and asked and came back with two options, one of which I ordered
Bloody brilliant!!
So, here's the hard begged for panini
with the hot choc and the awesome view
And apart from the one scary near miss, the pistes seemed quite empty - was lovely, the two runs I did!!
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