Ali keeps an eye on when the easy jet flights to the alps comes up for sale and lets me and bob know , and s soon as he lets us know usully around June we decide who is coming and where we fly to ! we got a great deal on flights to Grenoble and me and ali have had an eye on val disere for years and decided that this was going to be the year for it , all the group had such a good trip together previously that we decided all to go together again this year , but this time with bob and the family traveling with me cammy and Ali , so the flights booked by ali the apartment booked by bob the bus transfers on bens bus again booked by bob , all that remains is for me to book the ski hire and lift passes , I booked them through ski 2000 who I had used before in val thoren , once booked I sent the group email out , immediate emails back from bob and ali oops I booked the skis for transfer day when we couldn't ski and had an extra set of skis for bob , I got a lot of emails about that mistake which was easily and quickly fixed ! here's hoping no mistakes with the lift passes and ski hire now
brian mac is dropping me ali and cammy at the airport , and we are meeting bob alison joyce and the boys at the airport , which all went to plan well except cammy having to be sick as he had over indulged at his grans 80th birthday party last night ,we were very quickly and easily through check in and airport security , even though the big ski bag me and ali book as a separate piece was overweight 27kg , and my backpack and the big ski bag had to go through the outsize baggage it all went well and before long,( after buying a bottle of whisky at duty free) , we were all sitting at airport spoons having a beer (a scottish tradition ) no time for food, the flight to grenoble is only 2hrs 10mins and it was a perfect flight with easy jet they now sell punk IPA and there was empty seats so we got the toilets no problem good service and no problems
when we arrived at grenoble the transfer bus still had an hour before we could leave so we sat at the chairs outside the airport with snacks and beers , It is a long bus transfer and it took around 4.5hrs to get to val disere the kids were greta but well bored by the time we arrived at the resort around 20:30 ,because we book it all ourselves when we got dropped of in the centre of town it was our problem to find our way to our apartments ! we started marching in the general direction bags and buggies pushed dragged and carried across the cold snow and ice until we found someone who pointed us in the direction of some local transport for the final leg ,
the apartments are really good but at the end of town so after unpacking me cammy and ali left the rest of the gang for a march into town, to suss the nightlife bob Joyce and Alison ordered take away pizza and it was at the door as we left ,
first off we got a cash-line and started a kitty for the beers 100 Euros each , after a bit of discussion we decide to go to the petite danois the small dane or little Denmark whatever you call it ,the beers were excellent although i ordered a pint of red erik and it was nice beer but 6.9% proof and expensive ! so no more red erik but we still had 3 beers there before deciding it was wise to go for pizza or some food before bed , we had walked past dicks tea bar on the way down it was shut as its a night club and opens at 11pm , but it would be open now and it had a side bar selling pizzas , we ordered pizza and went into the club to use the loo , not a bad end to along days travel . it was 15mins to march uphill back to the appartment
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