Ciao! I’m sorry to say I’ve been a bit blogging useless this season keeping my friends and family up to date with the comings and goings in Italia. It has been a season of ups and downs from beginning to end… No sooner had we got the opening weekend out of the way, the kidz club reps arrived and started fighting. 10 days, lots of tears and shouting later one went home. Just after that drama subsided, I had to fly home unexpectedly. After only 4 days at home in April, it was with mixed emotions that I got to go [View Full Entry]

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Ciao ! After 3 weeks of montage activity - stock taking, cleaning fridges, jet washing, window cleaning, weeding, clearing gutters and making barbecues, we finally opened on 10th May to a flood of German families. However 35 arrivals over the first weekend passed without a hitch, everyone settled in by 9pm. My German ‘O’ level seems a long time ago so it’s hard to communicate, but ‘Alles klar?’ seems to cover most things. The karaoke bar held an opening night party with free drinks for all the reps to celebrate. Montage high spirits have already caused me to [View Full Entry]

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Ciao tutti ! After a busy week with my bucket and mop, I thought I’d drop you all a line to let you know I made it at last from Chamonix to Venice via 3 snowy days in London, 3 rainy days in Nice, a 12 hour train journey and 3 more rainy days at Lake Garda. Luckily the Heathrow terminal 5 chaos did not affect me. As I had quite a quick turnaround, it wouldn't have been ideal to have my luggage lost for a few days. Just had time to see the twins, have lunch with friends, do some [View Full Entry]

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Salut ! Just 10 more days to go at my mountain home. I've been enjoying the last few fun filled weeks of the season and making the most of the sunloungers at Grand Montets for some browning & blonding action. Just when we thought spring was here and summer around the corner, winter has returned with a vengeance. We've had 50cms dump of snow over the weekend and Cham is a winter wonderland again. Friday the weather was so bad , we had to cancel our fondue night at the piste chalet and on Saturday the clouds were still looking ominous. [View Full Entry]

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So another day off, another day to keep Rosy amused ! We met up with Bloggs, a friend of Mikey's and headed up to Brevent with our snowboards for our second snowboard tutorial. Now I dont consider myself in any way an expert boarder, but these two made me feel like I have actually made quite a lot of progress. After negotiating the first chair lift successfully, I gave them the only advice I could recall from my snowboarding lessons which is to 'shit' on the mountain on your heel edge and 'shag' the mountain on your toe edge, its all [View Full Entry]

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One Friday, Rosy and I headed down the valley to visit Doug, the last member of our resort accounts team, at his house in the neighbouring village of Les Contamines. He lives in a converted barn with his family who also have a chalet on the piste. We packed up some baguettes, cheese and wine and set off for a brilliant days boarding on the wide, empty pistes with picnic lunch at the chalet. Chalet has log fire and loads of bunk beds so we're all going over there again before the end of season for a fondue night sleepover. [View Full Entry]

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Salut bloggers ! I have acquired quite a few nicknames this season, mostly unrepeatable but my favourite is super ang. I'm not really that super, its just to tease my partner in crime Rosy who I have been spending far too much time with lately in and out of work. We spend the majority of our time in the office laughing, I have taken to wearing waterproof mascara as I am in tears at my desk most days, anyone would think we had no work to do, most think we are mad. I've had to ask Mikey (resort accounts leader), to [View Full Entry]

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Where did January go ? Never a dull moment in Chamonix, be Easter before we know it. After all the partying over Christmas and New Year, we're now settled into the regular apres scene at the Chambre 9 and our fish & chip Fridays and Sunday roasts at the Monkey bar. When my estate agent rang one night at 6pm, he thought I was at a rock festival! Last Friday had fish & chips (with proper mushy peas) and early night as I was working at the airport on Saturday. Snow caused chaos, we had to hold all the flights as [View Full Entry]

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I’m just about recovered from all the festivities in Chamonix so about time for another blog. Christmas Eve we all tagged along on the regular Monday night bar crawl the reps organise around town. I only made it to 3 of the 5 bars as there were free shots in every bar which knocked me out about 1am. Rosy and I only managed a couple of blue runs on Christmas Day but by time we got back at 4pm the turkey was almost ready. We all opened the parcels we had saved together, some interesting presents from our friends and families [View Full Entry]

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Last blog before Christmas and I finally went up on the slopes for the first time on Sunday. It was -12 degrees up there, practiced on some easy greens as its 3 winters since I was last on my snowboard. Was a bit rusty and kept falling over but cheered up on Sunday night as we found a bar serving roast dinners so we went for le ros bif! Safe to say it’ll be a white Christmas here, the festivities began this week with our office party on Tues night. Christmas dinner with all the trimmings, some festive music, dodgy shots [View Full Entry]

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