Saturday 4th January, 2014 - Meribel, France

As usual when you have to be somewhere early in the morning we kept waking all night to check the time.
The taxi turned up promptly at 7 (it was Switzerland after all) and we were at the airport in plenty of time to find some breakfast before looking for the Inghams reps we were supposed to meet for the bus ride to Meribel. 20 minutes after the designated time and still with no sign of anyone, we started getting worried. Eventually found an Inghams desk in the airport and even more eventually someone turned up behind it. It turns out they had omitted a word on our instructions. Instead of being at the Geneva arrival hall we should have been at the Geneva charter arrivals hall in its own terminal.

Meribel

But the bus hadn't left and we had a pleasant two and a half hour drive which took in a lot of Lake Annecy which some of you should remember. A very pretty place.
Checked in in time to catch up with Richard and Jack whose skiing lesson finished at 1.15. Apparently he tackled a blue run in Courcheval today!
After lunch they went off to ski and we tackled the gruelling process of organising skis and boots.
Flick and Dan should arrive a little later this evening.
It is snowing intermittently but hopefully will be nice tomorrow.