New Year's day snow in Courmayeur

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At the foot of Mont Blanc, the starting 31/12/05 me and my friend .... inseparable. Arrive quickly, after a couple of hours on the highway, and snowy landscape padded, cold and gray skies, but there ... we are discouraged at the end of the old year and celebrate!
There lying in a hotel, a three-star very comfortable, warm, clean, beautiful, and well furnished ... in the attic, we are comfortable and intimate .... in the small attic room that makes everything more 'hot. Lunch in a typical mountain restaurant, many people around that day .... Courmayeur after lunch one abundant snowfall and it hangs there lying in the area of Termarium ns. hotel. we are the only skin to return that afternoon, sauna and jacuzzi with a window to see who continues to snow outside a more 'can not shoot photos .... we rest and prepare thoroughly for the event. Stage at the hotel bar between the warm, various speeches, comments .... we prepare for the evening and shoot pictures in the room, a small world ..... padded and warm that we keep them as a hen .. .. pulled a shiny, leave early to go in the gut of the country while all the cars traveling with chains, and a cold polar ..... us with our heels spiked hair and cotton, and sheepskin handbag ..... . We reach the Mont Frety, very local in that it maintains all night New Year ...
We arrive and there is still no, then slowly fills the room and makes the cocktail ..... agghindati tables, flowers, people rich and full of jewels, young waiters and defiant children. Un po 'demoralized start dancing! The musical entertainment disturbs us and we cut the legs, but undeterred we throw ourselves on the food ..... arriving in the middle 'of the boys dinner, settled not far from us, a few comments ..... then food and even food All liscio row ...... ..... shortly after eleven boys not far from us, players of Parma, invite us to do the midnight toast with them and sit at their table, one can 'say no? NO! Take arms and Luggage transfer ....... and we arrive after midnight and it unleashes hell ...... music, trumpets, balloons, silly string, champagne and people shouting and laughing, is the chaos .. ....... all hug, exchange greetings, eat and drink ...... dancing! And go by train ..... the Latin dances and calienta and some rock! It goes on .... A table of Russians, Germans, Americans, we are also aware of the musician ... and go with the festivities ..... our players will strut to the rhythm of music and we dance between arms and persons unknown. Alcohol obscure but stuns and after you eat a lentil and cotechino luck for the new year ...... then limoncello and wine ..... then the classic girl who has the stench in the nose ...... four bangers of 2006 are felt until late at night, and meanwhile has taken over furiously to snow and snow and snow ...... luxury cars pass and people on foot, all celebrating the New Year with tonante item. The Mont Frety is a sparkling lake, and children dancing on tables .... the loud music ..... who ride, who makes friends, who speaks, who dances, who still eats .....
End of the fair ...... After all, the two turns off and we decide to go into the forest to return to our warm and welcoming hotel which is not far from the local but with a storm and heels ..... not easy to face the road that separates us from the hot room! While we return Festeggiante meet lots of people and movement is palpable snows ..... and does not seem to quit. We arrive at the hotel and let us in the room ..... tired, cold, pigiamini to scream and down 'in bed, the last time you looked at the time ... the past three sleep ....... as dormice and welcomed us the morning sun with a inhumane which spreads in every direction .... all padded so much snow fell in during the night, was a spectacle. I bleached mountains, the sun shone, the cold chill that we embraced, small snowy roads, rooftops overflowing with snow ...... decided to land at the breakfast room and did a breakfast at a lunch. There was everything from cakes to boiled eggs, sliced from the jam, coffee ', tea, milk, yogurt and cereals ..... meal beside a large glass window that gave onto the garden and admired the beautiful scenery to warmth .
Mezziogiorno before we left and went to Aosta, where we did a tour in the city 'that was sad and cold, first of all were at home to recover from the night. In the afternoon start for the return below zero! Comfortable and quick trip, we spent a nice san silvestro and happy of what we throw ourselves into hot beds of our homes for a healthy-deserved rest.
Courmayeur is a beautiful mountain city center and contains all the property 'of the mountains and the people more' or less that the VIP visit, narrow streets and shops priced from urlo, boutiques and local polenta and fondue, decorations and groups of skiers around for a relaxing walk. The bus carrying the slopes were full of people infagottata and drenched the streets of snow .... mud houses full of people ready to take weeks and an air of festivity everywhere. We ate very well that night and still remember the menu'.... And then that feeling out of snow and ice and I have the swimming pool .... in a sort of buried seeds of very rustic ... .. a hot sauna ..... ..... an environment that has pleased me very much, as the hotel itself.
Hotel Berthod, very close to the town center and the regret of not having led to the ski slopes, give me the impetus to say:
We return.