The First Fantastic Formal Friday at the Folie Douce with Fraser and Friends

Now I have started a little tradition in town called Formal Fridays. This is basically involves donning a shirt and tie and get properly “Car Parked”. The usual proceedings mean that we start at La Folie Douce around 3pm. For those that don’t know La Folie Douce... I can only say you are missing out. The Folie is a mountain restaurant/bar that has live House DJs that are accompanied by singers and musicians. The Folie is probably the best place in town to do a serious après session.

Now some of you are probably thinking that surely a good après session on the mountain must be weather dependant but in the case of the Folie Douce you would be wrong. Some of my best Folies have been in complete white-outs, raving away with around 500 people in the freezing cold whilst clutching a bottle of rose.

So the first one of the season was on Friday 11th December and was a very timid affair (in terms of numbers, not banter). When heading to the Folie, you can either ski there or go in your shoes and get the bubble car up. We decided to get the bubble car up... My preference every time. Nav & Katy took full advantage of the travel time by tucking into a box/bag of rose.



It was a white-out and the outside bar was closed so around 14 of us in shirts and ties and hit the inside bar. We were surrounded by holiday makers drinking vin chaud and chomping on an over priced spag bol. We on the other hand ordered 8 bottles of rose and started the days festivities. A bottle of flavoured vodka got added into the mix and the party had begun.



We were suitably rowdy when we left and we headed straight to the Moris Pub to continue the après sesh. Another 4 bottles of rose later and then the drinking games began. Fives, Truth and Dare & Kiss Chicken featured quite highly.





At around 7pm the après session fizzled out. You now have to take this time to either have a power nap or power on through before starting drinking again around 9pm.

Needless to say, some made it and some didn’t. This is often the way with a big Fantastic Formal Friday at the Folie Douce with Fraser and Friends.

Fraser