Les Crosets at New Year - Day 6 (NY EVE)

For New Year's Eve we had great weather and we were able to ski all day, the three of us (Claire, Duncan and I), even getting over to France though it was a quick visit as the snow was better back in Switzerland (and less crowded too). I then helped Olivia and Adele to build a snowman as well as a throwing a few snowballs at Claire and Monica! Will show pics of NY Eve tomorrow.

Les Crosets at New Year - Day 5

A better day weather wise but we had a lot of snow and we had a meal booked at the restaurant at the top of the hill! Despite snow chains it was really hard to get there when we tried a test run and the snow plough was still to show (or at least clear the whole road). We cut our losses and went down into Les Crosets and enjoyed a great meal at Chez Nelly instead.

Les Crosets at New Year - Day 4

Really horrible weather today (even compared to yesterday when at least it was snow!) with rain pretty much all day and after a slow start, a wet ski and a cold lunch we all decided to give up early. Thankfully all the kids still found it a great day despite the weather. The chalet fire never seemed more welcoming.

Les Crosets at New Year - Day 3

After the near catastrophe of Duncan and the kids not arriving last night it was good to get everyone out on skis today - even if the weather for the kids and their first lesson was a little snowy (see picture).

Les Crosets at New Year - Day 2

Woke up to beautiful weather this morning and got up looking forward to a good first day's skiing. The only problem was one lift was shut (for unknown reason) and it made the potential trip back to the chalet less appealing (a walk for starters). After a difficult trip over to the French side I managed to get back and found the lift up and running. We then set off to ski back to the chalet as the weather worsened! Luckily we made it but it wasn't looking good for the arrival of Duncan and co...

Les Crosets at New Year - Day 1

We managed to travel from Basel with no real problems. Barbara has left her car down in the main car park and we then drove up (the unsalted road) to the beautiful chalet. Looks great even if steep hill on the way could cause problems later in the week.

Strange Weather Here...

I was lucky last night in that having switched BA flights to avoid the potential BA strike this week (postponed due to legal action) I got home! If I had been on the 7pm flight as originally intended I would still be stuck at Heathrow after another day of snow in the UK caused the usual chaos. Here I arrived to just as much snow but today it's all gone as the temperature has risen to 14 degs C in one day - weird.

Back to UK (despite snow and delays)

I managed to make it back over to England to see my dad in hospital and even got lucky enough to have a ticket for the Hull game today. Flying in from Zurich looked iffy as news of snow in the UK was causing problems as usual. Thankfully all I had was an hour on the tarmac at Zurich and the same at Heathrow.

Ticket from Last Night

Just to prove it - here's the ticket from last night's game

Basel v Fulham

Blimey it was cold tonight and fair play to all the traveling Fulham fans who came over. For once it was a really good game with the Cottagers getting a deserved 3-2 win though Basel had their chances too but if you make Bobby Zamora look good then you are doomed.