This year’s ski trip sees the same people returning to the same hotel (who says we lack imagination?). The conditions on the piste couldn’t be much more different though – last year was horribly icy – we’d have been better off with skates than skis most of the time! This year though, there is loads of snow, so conditions should be really good.
The journey here was something of an adventure – the uk being in the grip of a cold snap, with the accurately forecast snow arriving the night before we traveled, exactly as predicted, completely catching the authorities on the hop in the morning. The drive to the airport was pretty hair-raising:

Happily, the flight managed to get off after a delay of just over an hour, which wasn’t so bad,all things considered. The roads in France were completely clear even though they’ve had a lot of snow over the last couple of days. As I write, we’re still waiting for the rest of the party to arrive as they were on a different flight which was delayed with technical problems.
We’ve been out for a quick ski, just to see if we can remember what to do, which seemed to go ok, although it was very cold indeed. I shall have to wear more clothes tomorrow.
Here are couple of pictures of the view from our window:

One of the chalet girls gave me a present to take back to Sarah: