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Chalet Time - Deeep clean!
... It was our turn to cool tonight but since Sandrine couldn't get to the shops we didn't have a lot of food to work with or practice the menu plan so Tim whipped up a couple of Frittatas, a goats cheese pie, nicoise salad and a chocolate cheesecake - so we had a lovely informal dinner tonight. Sat 8 - Time to start the deep clean, not a fun task did this for 3 hours then popped to Pap 2 for Tomato Soup made by Dave then we went for a walk with Megan to get ...
Training Week
... never seen snow like it! Had to clamber over waist height snow to get out of the chalet this morning! We had an early start as we had to go to a de-briefing of our meal so had an earlier breakfast and had to be at the hall for 8.40. However, it had snowed so much over night that the Narnia path had now been completed covered in waist high snow.. so there was only one thing for it.. I carved the path to lead us to training!! It was ...
Let The Adventure Begin!!
Saturday 1 - Woke at 8 and finished packing our stuff. Called a taxi to pick us up at 11 and we met Ant at the Coach Station at half past to get the coach to London. It was pretty busy with people and traffic so got to Victoria at 2pm and managed to find our meeting point at Bridge Place pretty quickly. Boarding didn't start till 3.25pm so we waited around. Kelly came to meet us to say Goodbye which was lovely - she stayed ...
The not so perfect storm
... presented with our very own Mounaque puppets, which Marie-Helene had made us to say thank you for all we had done for them this year. They will need a bit more stuffing and personalisation before we put them at the end of the road in the summer. I felt very touched and quite emotional, as this is a sure sign that we have really arrived in the valley.
Martin and Steve came to stay with their touring motorbikes the few days before we left for the UK – hope they ...
Taking a hike around Mont Blanc
... would miss our three other connections. Fortunately a later sequence of connections to Lyon, Bellegarde, St Germain les Bains and Chamonix on successively smaller trains, enabled us to alight from the red mountain train at Les Houches near Chamonix in a thunderstorm. Bienvenue a les montagnes. We called another taxi, and huddled in raincoats under the narrow eaves of a car-park notice board until it arrived to take us to our hotel.
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