Alpine Ski Tour, France

MJ together with Dominique, picked up Chris on the way down from Bedford and came down to ours. Sue, Steph and I, we waiting and ready   We then loaded up the van with all the kit, and with six of us spread around the van, the skis down the middle, and the kit loaded in all the crevasses.

Down to Dover and the ferry, fighting the queues on the M20, all trying to do the same as us. Once we got to the ferry port things got a little easier, and once we were soon on the boat and heading to France I relaxed.

We had booked a couple of F1 rooms just the East of Reims, the aim was to get there, and have a few hours sleep, before continuing, hoping to keep ahead of the bow wave of people from the UK and Holland who had half term at the same time.

The plan worked out well, until we started to pick up heavy traffic as we passed Bourg en Bresse and stuck with it to Geneva. By the time the darkness was falling we were passed through Ugine, Following the "idiot box" rather than the map we found ourselves on the "short cut" over the La Forclaz pass, instead of going around the bottom.

We found our way to Beaufort and soon worked out how to get to the apartment ...

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