Departure & Arrival

Wednesday 3rd December was spent completing the packing and booking a hotel at the airport for the night. 7:15am flights are so inconvenient!

How many items of clothing are needed for 5 months? I decided that the same amount as for a 2 week holiday would suffice.

In the evening I was dropped off at the railway station to catch a train to Charing Cross and on to Stansted.

The evening in the hotel was spent catching up with writing letters and Christmas cards. The last few weeks have been such a mad rush that there has not been much time to get all these sorted out.

Thursday morning was an early start. 5am wake up to catch the shuttle bus to the airport. Managed to get my two bags totalling 33kgs through check-in without having to pay a supplement.

Breakfast at Pret a Manger.

The EasyJet flight took off and landed without anything newsworthy, although I did scan the passengers to try to work out who were staff for the season.

Arriving at Lyon, the staff for my hotel started to gather together and I began to feel old. I am taking a very late gap year!

We were put onto a coach. I sat there reading the Daily Telegraph, wondering if working a ski season was such a good idea. I think the other staff wondered what this old git was doing on the coach. "He can't be staff, can he?"