Still day 1 - still take off
2025年3月7日, 南アフリカ ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C
Almost everytime we leave for this trip it's a gorgeous day😂
Heading for the airport soon - using the trusty Gautrain bus system, our bubble of Europe 😉
The bubble of Europe continues
2025年3月7日, 南アフリカ ⋅ ⛅ 29 °C
We often don't get to use the bus and train system in South Africa - this works much better than I thought it would 😂 seamlessly walked onto a bus, tapped my phone, off the bus and into theもっと詳しく
Now the fun begins!!
2025年3月7日, 南アフリカ ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
After multiple attempts at a decent photo where we were all looking, we finally got a presentable one 😂
Most people think you need helmets for the snowboarding, but it's really for when you've hadもっと詳しく
Locked and loaded
2025年3月7日, 南アフリカ ⋅ 🌙 24 °C
Finally seated in our buckets with seatbelts (yes Charlie and Hayley, there are seats this far back in the plane!)
Good news is if we go down - we've got helmets 🪖
Day 1 - take off - ground zero
2025年3月7日, 南アフリカ ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C
This might not be as perfect as Charlie's documentation of his trip - but we're giving it a go.
As usual, morning of the flight and bags are being packed (I can think of a few people that would beもっと詳しく
旅行者Safely packed away now, but I will admit, it was not included in the photo because I forgot about it 😁😂
Layover time 🙂
2025年3月8日, フランス ⋅ 🌙 7 °C
We have touch down!
Even with a plastic tray for a plate and wooden cutlery, that was the best airline food I've ever had.
I may not have gotten a Charcuterie board but the small brie triangleもっと詳しく
The wheels on the bus!
2025年3月8日, スイス ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C
And the bus trip begins, onwards to France we go!
From a flying bus to a bus...bus (I probably could've had a better joke there)
Although it's another 2 hours to drive back to France......justもっと詳しく
Settled in!
2025年3月8日, フランス ⋅ ☁️ 4 °C
Okay, bus trip complete, keys acquired and room located!
I take back everything I said about the bus, for some reason they gave us a driver who could honestly rival Pierre Gasly (also French), everyもっと詳しく
Coffe with a view
2025年3月9日, フランス ⋅ ☁️ 2 °C
There are two was to start the morning, either with a coffee or the wrong way.
Excuse the hair, it will be in a helmet all day anyway and I needed the extra warmth
Hot choccy stop!
2025年3月9日, スイス ⋅ ☁️ 6 °C
I don't even want to repeat what these hot chocolates cost when you come from the land of biltong but they do taste better when you're above 1800m!
Cheers Charlie!!!
2025年3月9日, フランス ⋅ ☁️ 7 °C
Day 1 of boarding comes to an end, very successful day on the slopes - no one was hurt, new boots and bindings work like a charm and now I have a beer in hand!
Some moron also gave me the middleもっと詳しく
Day 2 Déjà vu
2025年3月10日, フランス ⋅ ☁️ 0 °C
Little bit of a late start, who would've thought we would be tired after a day of so boarding 😂 but we go again!
I haven't woken up this stiff in quite some time, need to do some morningもっと詳しく
Day 2 winding down
2025年3月10日 ⋅ ⛅ 5 °C
Another successful day on the mountain 😁
Made our way over to the Swiss side of things, and over the Swiss wall, an extremely steep and very "mogully" slope that we decided may not be a good ideaもっと詳しく
Decided to ramp it up again!
2025年3月10日, フランス ⋅ ☁️ 4 °C
Went for another 2 hour shift, but I didn't take any photos!!
It's okay though, instead you can enjoy an entire album of the hot chocolate my brother made while we were out, with a sneak peak of myもっと詳しく
Wayyy too many 🍺
2025年3月10日, フランス ⋅ ☁️ 0 °C
The day comes to an end!
Just a few beers, pizzas and pics!!
Tomorrow's day is planned - all the way down to where the drinks will start, the most important part, maybe I'll have a gin or two 😉😂
Another day another dollar
2025年3月11日, フランス ⋅ ☁️ 2 °C
Although my head has definitely felt better, I don't think I'll ever get tired of a coffee on this balcony ☕
Left one very important photo out of last night's post, someone has hidden away two Legoもっと詳しく
Half way choccy stop
2025年3月11日, フランス ⋅ ☁️ 5 °C
Made our way over to a specific spot that has the cheapest hot chocolates we've found on previous trips. Only thing is that it's a 2 hour snowboarding and lift maze to get here 😂
AirFrance🇫🇷
2025年3月12日, フランス ⋅ 🌫 -1 °C
Now it's just tea with no view!
We were planning on taking a bit of a break day today and slowing things down - the mountain had the same idea 😂 woke up this morning feeling like we had set sailもっと詳しく
Quick update
2025年3月12日, フランス ⋅ ☁️ 0 °C
Usually we would be out on the mountain so I'm quite board - good news is now you get more updates 😁
P.s - took the video and did not watch it to see if it was a goodie, you're welcome
Tested the weather ☁️
2025年3月12日, フランス ⋅ ☁️ 0 °C
Decided we wouldn't know what it's like to snowboard in this weather if we didn't try - I can confirm that our suspicions were correct 😂
But I seem to remember some young Emirates pilot sayingもっと詳しく
The usual!
2025年3月12日, フランス ⋅ ☁️ -2 °C
Back at the same dinner spot smashing our faces with another pizza!!
Got back from our short outing and had some more hot chocolate (of course we did), followed by Limon cello (2nd best to ginもっと詳しく
POWDER DAY!!!!!!!☃️❄️🏂
2025年3月13日, フランス ⋅ ☁️ 0 °C
Woke up this morning and still couldn't see a thing outside but it was no longer break day, so we had to brave this new world, and my god am I glad we did 🤩
The snow was insane!!! Honestly theもっと詳しく
Powder day left over videos
2025年3月13日, フランス ⋅ ☁️ 0 °C
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Some evening pics 📷
2025年3月13日, フランス ⋅ ☁️ -3 °C
After our day of snowboarding there were a few moments of "wow, can't actually believe this exists"
Thought it would be worthwhile sharing 🙂
I would've looked like a crazy person filming the hugeもっと詳しく
Goooood mooorrning Avoriaaazz!!!
2025年3月14日, フランス ⋅ ☁️ -3 °C
Last day on the mountain and this has been an incredible trip, but it's not over yet!
I'll see you all later again, hopefully I remember to take some pics!