I've just got myself an account with flickr and I'm trying it out with my Chamonix photos. So if you'ld like to see the full story looky here. But I thought a post a couple up here as well to give you a taster. Also flickr doesn't seem to like the size of some my panorama shots so I'll include them here as well.


Suffice to say it was a GREAT holiday. It just what I hoped it would be when I booked it and many congrats to Alex, Steve and Nicky for coming up with a great formula at Coldfusion. Good luck with the rest of the season.

Things started pretty well. Day 1 looked mostly like this:

And it carried on looking like that until Christmas. It didn't snow on Christmas day but there was a wicked hoar frost


The clouds were low but the mountains were high so a quick trip up to les Grands Montets provided a great view: the first time I'd skied above a cloud inversion since a school trip in about 1982!

Back at the chalet Christmas dinner was being prepared. We had the full on turkey etc and enterained Thierry and his family, the man who owns the chalet. One of the guests had organised a secret santa thing as well so everyone got a present. The rigorously laid out rules defined a limit of 10EUR and presents with a comedy/cheesy/naff value! In fact I got one of those fantastic cow-moo-noise makers. It's cracking!



The final one is from the opposite side of the valley. On the last day I went up the Aiguille du Midi, Europe's highest cable car at 3842m. It was freeeeezing up there, which may explain why the panorama doesn't line up so well. But it's quite a sight. And I was thrilled to spot the Matterhorn away in the distance (I think!). Can you see it?


Good times.

But one thing just wasn't quite right. This hotel in Les Praz bothered me: