Christmas Holidays in Courmayeur.
" Curma ", as they say in Milan.
Accommodation in residence Pre 'St. Didier, where usually down when the House of Savoy reigned supreme.
morning departure of December 25. Grace and 'care to order by phone at the most' expensive food in the area west of Milan, a sumptuous "Christmas dinner" for the whole family. A huge box which alone fills three quarters of the boot, with all the dishes carefully packed, I'm going to collect and pay before departure, "'cause you would not want to put me to cook when we get in the mountains, and the Christmas lunch at the restaurant is sad." As blame her.
the menu: scallops with champagne and prawns
real baked with herbs.
the three organic cereals soup with saffron, leeks and shellfish soup
capon with braised cappelletti Mantuan
fillets of sea bream
the Ligurian Sea bass fillets in a sauce of porcini mushrooms sautéed Mandarin
mashed potatoes and asparagus.
In the days before I booked and already 'paid online with a week of ski school for both children.
Grace decides not to be denied the opportunity 'to ski, but on alternate days, of course with master suite. This diabolical solution allows you to show off her put on the ski slopes, without denying the whole day of shopping while I and the children swarm. In
wicked lottery ski instructors, the children and not 'touched, unfortunately, the same delightful instructor Victoria "Posh" Beckham I've seen darting about Pra' Neyron, it 'that sort of Elisabetta Canalis met in the Alps to the ski lift, but "The Iris", which with all due respect, I remember my Aunt Lella.
On the other hand, Grace is not 'same as happened to the young master William England' s already 'spotted last year, but Piero, sixty-year veteran of the instructors, roly-poly, paternal and a tooth for decades that their usual Gauloises without filter.
Days Grace have resort as "fil rouge" the perennial questioning of the foundations of every single practice connected with sport in question.
The cable car: "They should not let in people. It is too tight."
boots: "Why 'make them so' hard? Hurt!"
The tracks: "A Sauze D'Oulx tracks are more 'beautiful."
The chair: "You see that old!"
Clothing: "Should I buy the shirt for me too" technical "as the ones I bought for the children."
The artificial snow, "Why 'do not shoot better, and here' s all frozen." About
snow in a snowstorm, watching the flakes came down against the light on 'orange teaches a bar, Alexander said, "Look Daddy, the artificial snow."
"No, love, and this 'natural snow
...". "So, why' and 'orange?".
When Grace is not with us on the slopes, his days are permeated by a constant' of reservations and cancellations related to the "beauty" personal. Book baths, move the massage, sauna and remove the wax rebook canceled previously.
Other than personal trainer, for her it would take the "Personal booker and eraser.
Within days, Grace becomes the queen Via Roma, the "progress" most of the boutiques 'exclusive Curma, and the best score of those grills that flaunting names like "Les Gourmandises", or "The old pasta factory of Gabriella" already declared' departure in exorbitant prices.
One day, returning from shopping, she says, "Look, your credit card does not work. I could not pay. Do you think that the kind Gabriella, told me that you can go when you want." Of course, the card has reached the monthly spending limit, so I'm going to pay the cash account by gentle Gabriella ("Ah, she 's husband of Mrs Grace ...").
In New Year, while all the "sciuri" crowd the gastronomy of the course in view of the dinners at Grace can be a double true professional: Gabriella comes from, take the number 38 while they are serving the '84, which calculates the approximate time We want to serve 54 customers can go to the hairdresser and back in an hour deli and a half later, exactly as they are calling the number before it. Chapeau.
Activities 'shopping mainly concerned with micro-targeted purchases: cups homemade, hand-embroidered oven mitts, socks for children in the more' exclusive store of socks for children, when a day comes the announcement:
"I saw a bag ...."
"Well, love, I promised a gift for our anniversary
..."," ... it 's really beautiful.
....", I let it get to see' OK, let's go. Where did you see ?
"Da Shop ....( more 'expensive of all the Val D' Aosta, ed) ... just that I thought would cost (......) but costs much more. 'But' and 'beautiful. Think, and 'limited edition'
"Limited?!? I mean '? "
" All right,' Come on, come on, I let it get to see, "
" Well, if it 's so nice and small, we hope that there is still ....",
"I made it set aside ...". If you encounter
Grace, know that her bag and 'the number 54 of a limited signature series, which each model and' custom and different, for sale only in carefully selected shops Milan, New York, Cortina, Gstaad, Paris, Aspen .... and Courmayeur.
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