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New book in the library. This beautiful book will enlighten your stay during cocooning moments. You will discover the children living up-hill. All around the world, they know how to help their parents to breed-up animals. In France, the youngest help to make hay, train for ski Read more…
Which cheese to cook a good fondue savoyarde? Will you be able to answer this quizz? You will see right away down in Bourg saint Maurice you arrived in a cheese country. You can grab some at the coopérative to make a fondue once at the cottage. Read more…
[/caption]La nouvelle bande de prés jouxtant la maison sera maintenant beaucoup plus facile à faucher et à entretenir. Les buissons de ronces qui frangeaient ce mur en particulier et que nous n’arrivions pas à faire disparaître ne sont plus. Et nous avons effacé quelques traces du passé. D’un passé assez Read more…
Who could believe it? It’s snowing in April! No problem. The sheeps are already out but close to the village. The vegetable patches are still, we’ll begin to plant in three weeks. Henriette’s one in front is still empty. Are there still seasons when we speak about global warming? 🙂
Our guests book begun with the cottage, it could be our facebook page: you let us comments and pieces of advice. We are so fond of the guests’ little words! Next guests can also find good tips in it. For instance, if you feel like hiking, our january guests wrote they had Read more…
We’ll welcome you at our cottage with a little something. Sometimes honey made by our cousin Nathalie Ripert. Yesterday she gave us a spicy cake up-hill flowers flavoured! Would you manage to cook one if we give you the “refuge du Goûter”‘s cook recipe? Nathalie’s bees Read more…
Simple things are the best: enjoy our slow food recipes! We are so lucky to still have famers in Tarentaise thanks to collective structures.. You will find all you need at our farmers’! They just posted a video about “l’emmontagnée“, just when they are back from “démontagnée“. Read more…
While ski season hasn’t begun, we enjoy the cool fall. That’s a fact for sure: the living-room is really cosy! We took so much car of the flowers: they still blossom to welcome you!
Sky on fire tonight at the Ecombelles! Summer is still there. No black current this year, but lots of plums. Let’s cook some jam. Maybe an Alps pie too. Each year its flavour… You can find some of our recipes here by the way: what are you going to cook?
Flowered balconies welcome you warmly! Each spring we set some traditional geraniums to give the chalet a red touch decoration. They have grown well up and blossom more than ever. You’ll enjoy them till snow comes back. By the way this winter bookings are already availables. You can Read more…