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Chalet Time - Deeep clean!
... air and investigate our surroundings. Found the ski lifts and the shops & bars. Cracked on with more cleaning when we got back. Had dinner round Greg & Emilys with the nannies, 18 in total. After we went for a couple of beers at Bar la Roz with Dave, Louise, , Ant, Meg, Alex & Elaine. Sunday 9 - Finished what we could be bothered to clean in the kitchen although there's not much point because the white walls look like they've been used as ...
Training Week
... and we were soaked by the time we got there, but it was fun all the same! Afternoon Energiser - Tim & a few others had to get up on stage and feed a Banana on a string through everyone's trousers - we won!! After lectures we got to enjoy the 2 course lunch then back to Papillon 2 for training on ordering our food which was really really confusing and took us about 6 hours in total to do!! Think we spent 450 euros in total which isn't ...
Let The Adventure Begin!!
... a welcome meeting in the hall, then collected our uniforms - T-shirts/Fleece/Ski Jacket & Apron. We were told that we would be cooking the first meal of the week tomorrow - a 3 course dinner for 15. Went back to the room to unpack & for a nap until 6pm when - not really wanting to get out of bed - we went back to the restaurant for a free welcome mulled wine, so it was worth getting out of bed. It was pretty ...
The not so perfect storm
... been looking after us.
Catching up with the usual crowd, who have begin arriving bit by bit this week, has been good. Boy are there some odd people up here! I think it is a pre-requisite for working the season. I think a lot of the slightly older guys are up here to run away from reality sometimes. Ulf, the only gay in the village is nearly 50, drives a car that barely goes, is drunk most nights, but is hilarious in his tales of the pistes. His latest job is sommelier ...
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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