First group of visitors arrive at Chalet Philippe only to find the nice snow that fell Thursday morning had all washed away from the rain that then fell for four days almost non stop. But that didn't dampen their enthusiasm to give this new sport a really good go.

Kate, Laura, Jayne, Duncan, Linda and Martin

All four new skiers had a private group lesson all day on the Friday. Laura and Martin progressing nicely the first beginner slope to the second and even the third level slopes.

Day two for the newbies and they found themselves skiing right from the top of the mountain, progressing to blue slopes on day three, it is amazing how much easier it is to learn to ski nowadays with this new equipment.

Luckily we even had a morning without rain on the Sunday, before they had to depart.

Saturday evening we went out for our first local restaurant meal down in St Gervais, It was a Savoyard restaurant which served my favourite dish Tartiflette :) This I followed up with Tatin Glace, complete with monkey keyring decoration.

Our road is so steep there is a sign both ends to say residents only :)

Finally...... We woke up this morning (Tuesday) to fresh snow and a steady snow fall, looking at about 1 metre up at the top, and forecast is snow all week with the sunshine following from Saturday onwards, Here we go, ski season starts properly now...