My mum ,Tony, and my sister Kirrin and family have been over to stay for a few days and we have had a lovely time. Lots to eat and drink and the weather was good so we manged to go to the Lake, up the Col etc.It was great to see my little neice and nephew too as we do miss you all.

My mum and Tony looked after the girls for 3 days and Jonny and I met our friends Sharon and Andrew in Nice. We drove down and picked them up from Nice airport then had 3 relaxing days with them.
We went to Monaco for the day which was amazing with all the Ferrari's and top end cars. We did plenty of people watching that day!!!
Once again the weather was good and we made it to the beach even though it was too blustery to go in the sea.

Here a couple of pics from the weekend.

We have been watching the rugby and this weekend we are looking forward to England-France match. We will be watching it with the French so it will be a great atmosphere.

The new hottub is looking good and the girls have been in it more than us.

Sunday we are going to Park Walabi(theme park) with some friends.

The winter is coming up fast, we have to sort our ski passes out in the next week or so for all the family. Anneha has been telling Jonny this year she wants race skis, so glad she as keen as us on the skiing front. She will be skiing with Villaroger ski club again this year!!!

Ive ordered new skis this time too and we are all looking forward to the first snow fall.

Ive been testing more new recipes for next season and we have had the wine delivered, all you regulars will be glad to know we have the bottles of Grand Sud back this year!!!

Jonny is busy plastering a chalet out, its for a French family in Villaroger so he's close by.He's been out on his bike quite a lot recently as the weather has been so good.

We are busy with bookings so anyone wanting to come and see us again this season get in touch sooner rather than later to make sure we have availability.

Flights are all out and also the Jet 2 flights for next summer into Geneva are out to book now if anyone fancies coming for a summer holiday.

Will write again soon.

We've had a bit of mixed weather the last week, with fresh snow on the mountain tops. We took this picture from our kitchen window the other morning!


It was the bike race at Le Monal Hotel, Ste Foy last week and thankfully we had a beautiful day for it. The race is for mountain bikers and is a circuit round the village of Ste Foy with different obstacles on the route. There are 2 people to a team and they have to do as many circuits as possible in an hour. The race actually goes through the bar, as you can see from the photos below.
We are proud to say that 2 English guys came 2nd in the race, having being up against mountain guides and some proffessional riders!!!!

We have been spending quite a bit of time down at Plan D'eau just recently. The other day the girls swam to the island and back. I thought Fi would sit it out but she insisted on going and loves this photo of herself at the otherside.
 
I have just come back from a long weeked in Nice with some friends. It was tracy's 40th so we left on the Friday morning and came back Sunday evening. It was a perfect place to go with lots of bars,lovely restaurants, great shopping and beautiful beach and sea.I've just about recovered from it now. These are a couple of photos from the trip

The girls are back at school now and I am able to try and do a bit of sorting out etc. We cut our wood the other day and stacked it up ready for the winter.We are getting a new hot-tub for this next season so are getting that fit this next week.

Will write again soon.

We went climbing to Notre Dame du Pre, near to Aime last weekend. We had Phil and Helen staying in the chalet so we decided to take the children climbing, as Charlotte and Jack had never tried it before.

The weather was great and we took a BBQ with us.We could not get the kids off the ropes, they all did really well, even Fi had a go. Phil also managed to get a climb in, but had to wrestle with the kids first for a turn.

This is a picture of Anneha taken that day

15th August was the day of Villaroger Fete. As always it was a busy day with lots of stalls/games and dancing. They always have a procession made up of floats from all the local villages. There are people dressed in traditional costume for this area and the day is finished by a large confetti fight where everyone gets covered. In the evening there is a ball at the local hall where we eat local sausage!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here are a couple of photos from the day.

On the 21st it was Fi's 4th Birthday. She had all her friends round for a party(11 kids), I must have been mad. We played games and she got a new tent so slept that night in it on the landing with Anneha.We mums opened the champagne so that helped to make everything run smoothly!!!

Heres a photo of her blowing out the candles

Well thats it for now, will write again soon.