We started the holidays with a big Christmas dinner bash at Holly's house where we exchanged a few pressies and ate/drank until we almost exploded. We didn't have on our minds that we had to be up at 4am to head off to Geneva. Firstly not to mention the Polish mini cab driver, where we both exchanged a few words throughout the trip to Gatwick - rude ones! We arrive at the airport and we have never seen so many people lined up in our lives, out the door in the freezing cold, at this time there was some fog that had been hanging around causing chaos for air passengers. We managed to lift off and arrive in Geneva where our bus was waiting to take us to Les Arcs France. So after the longest travel time to go the shortest distance - about 12hrs door to door we were greeted in the Alps with rocks and grass. We're asking 'where is the snow?!'
So we strapped on our boots and skis first thing in the morning and headed out. I would say the snow was not that bad - compared to Aussie conditions. By Friday if the girls hadn't made it home before 2pm the gondola was the best option back to the apartments without braking your leg or throwing your skis in the bin, but for us boys, 3 pairs of hire skis later and skating on ice it's not so bad. I was always out from 9am till after 4pm searching for the white stuff. There was still some good runs up high.
We had a massive feast on Christmas eve, all 10 of us. Fondue, racklet and a fry up of many meats at a nice French/Swiss restaurant. I had never eaten so much cheese in my life! It was really yummy though.
Les Arcs wasn't your 'traditional' ski village and it didn't have that same feel as an Austrian ski town but it was still great fun!
All in all we had a great trip away and a great time with all our new friends that came with us. THEN 1 day to recover and hit up New years eve! We went to an awesome house party in an old church in North London, up there with one of the best all time NY's for me. - No photos from New Years sorry...
Then straight back into the swing of things a day later at work, which really hit us hard. We had a realisation, we don't want to work!
Waiting for our bus from St Maurice to Les Arcs 1800
The MASSIVE racklet! You grill the top of the cheese then scrape it off onto your food
Almost all of us in the shot with the fondue, racklet and everything else!
Having lunch, basking in the sunny warmth, it was almost t-shirt weather!
Trying to stare into the sun
Top of the Gondola
Mont Blanc in the beautiful Alps
Our ski buddies hanging around
We loved the contrast so we had to take a pic
The sexy ski bunny
The view from our balcony, every afternoon this fog would come in
Me, Les Arcs 1950 and Mt Blanc (There are a few Les Arcs depending on the height of each town, for eg. 1600,1800,1950 and 2000)
A cute French restaurant with Mt Blanc
There was even a run named after le famous skier Lac!
The sunset view from our balcony
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