Back in the UK – for now!
16 days since the last update. Sorry, it’s not good enough.
My excuse is the fact that upon returning to the UK it has taken until today to get my broadband connection back up. It’s a pathetic excuse I know, if I was in the road I would have found a way to update a blog by now, possibly two.
Getting back from Tignes was easy enough; we had to get to Albertville in order to get the car and after getting the final two seats on the bus and the last train tickets we ended up in Albertville where getting the car was the proverbial piece of cake (or is that ‘piece of the proverbial cake’?) and we got home, via McDonald’s in Bourg and Super U where we stocked up on gin, tequila & beer for the evening festivities, our leaving do!
It was a cracking night and a top send off, with all the bars winding down we got everyone round and had a suitable blow out.
Sunday was official packing day and we got up on Monday in the snow to begin the drive up through France. It was snowing very hard and yet another example of how the seasons in the Alps are ending later and later every year. Each year the debate rages on as to whether resorts should stay open later and the 50cm of fresh snow Tignes enjoyed on Monday 27 April served onlyto reinforce the argument.
The Don met us in timely fashion in Calais after our minor road traffic accident in a Calais petrol station and we were on the ferry back to England, the first time I’ve been in the UK for four months. The Don, being a veteran at winters in the Alps knew to take us to the best chippy near his house for some good English junk food and we settled down for a night of whiskey and swine flu updates. The next day, after the best night’s sleep in four months, we were on the M6 Toll and eventually got back home 36 hours after we left Tignes.
There has been little or no rest as we were round at the parents’ in Formby on Wednesday for a family Chinese and the first leg of the Champions League semi final and the weekend was taken up with me and Stuoobs taking the train to Durham for a weekend of debauchery with the North Easten arm of the family – a true cultural experience!
So, the plan is….
We’re in the UK for the next few months. We don’t get the best of weather in this country but any decent sun we do get is in May – August. The Met office reckon it’s going to be a babecue summer!
After that it’s a trip to Cyprus for a week, principaly for Yvonne & Ste’s wedding. Then it’s the next leg of our Karen’s not pregnant tour where we’ve got a couple of months of unplanned East-Asia hopping. I’m sure as the day gets nearer we’ll have a few things planned but for now it’s just the full moon party in October in Ko Phra Nang. After that it’s a few weeks in the UK before back to the Alps and a season in Meribel.
So, between now and August I’ll be doing a bit of work on the blog including a new platform that will make posting around the world in obscure Thai internet cafes a bit easier and I’ll also be posting moni blogs from my favourite places and trips/holidays taken before September 2007, when this blog began.
TTFN
xxx
The pictures are awesome.Thanks for sharing your experience.
love it! xx
Glad you like it!
Took me a good week to do – I’ll have to find something else now!
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