We have had our first trip away in the Caravan as the weather has been so warm here in Les Arcs.

We went down to Annecy and the girls' friends came too, all girls!! They had a great time, the lake was a bit chilly to swim but they all had a paddle up to their knees.

We cycled too, I went to Annecy town  and Jonny cycled to Albertville.

                                                          

  Here at our Summer Chalet in Les Arcs we are trying to offer cycling holidays  as we are so perfect to bike the Cols such as Col D'Iseran, Col de Petit Sainte Bernard, Col du Madeleine etc.  They are all ones that have featured in the Tour de France. Talking of which it passes close by to the chalet (Albertville) around 12th July 2012 if anyone fancies a trip out here to watch it. http://www.skivillaroger.com/index.php/summer-activites

The girls have been doing lots of baking. One thing you must try if you have a sweet tooth is Donna Hay's Caramel slice , its to die for!! http://www.food.com/recipe/donna-hays-chocolate-caramel-slice-423550

We are going to have a Diamond Jubillee Party at ours in June, we will invite our French neighbours too to sample some Pims and typical English food. Wether or not they will wave a flag or not remains to be seen ......!

Snow , snow and more snow, as those who follow us on TWITTER will know. What an end to the Season, although Les Arcs is still open until 29th April 2012. Tignes and Val until the first week in May.

The past week has seen over a metre of snow fall in just over 2 days. We have been skiing knee deep powder up until the 25th April, unbelievable!

Click  http://vimeo.com/40853024  to see  footage of the powder on the  last day of the Season in Sainte Foy ( 22nd April 2012)

The weather is now warming up, infact its been 25 degress today which meand all that snow thats fallen will start to get heavy and fall off the mountain. This does not bode well for ski touring at the end of the season as it will be too dangerous.

Jonny is now in training for the www.piste2plage.com challenge in aid of Help for Heros. Its a 440km cycle from here Sainte Foy to Juan Les Pins in the South of France. They will have to cycle over 27,500 vertical feet, climbing and descending 7 of the infamous Cols often seen on the Tour de France. Its a massive feat and Jonny is hoping to raise in excess of £1000 for Help the Heros.

If anyone would like to make a donation to this worthy Charity you can find my fundraising page on www.bmycharity.com/JonnyKaye. Its quick and easy to make a donation. Thankyou in advance.

The girls have just had a week off school and May is a funny month with lots of Bank Holidays here in France. We have all got our bikes out and trying to support Jonny as much as we can.

The caravan will be heading out too soon , as the nice weather will soon be here to stay.

Don't forget you could take your Summer holiday here with us in the Chalet , still got availability. For you walkers, cyclists out there now is a great time to pay us a visit, we could even do some catering for you if you prefer not to cook. Please get in touch to discuss.

Finally we would like to thanks everyone who came to stay last Season and helped make another successful, enjoyable Winter , with lots of laughs and new friends made. THANKYOU!!!!!

Its easter week and the sun is shining, although we have had snow this week too. The snow is keeping really well and we are still skiing down to the bottom of Villaroger, no downloading on the last lift yet.

The water splash in Arc 1600 has been open for a while and both Jonny and Anneha have done it, Fi and I have chickened out.

We have had lots of new guests in for the last few weeks and made more friends. We have been skiing in Sainte Foy on Saturday, Sunday's and Wednesday's for only 16 euros for the day, a real bargain.

We had Harry staying in the chalet and he did a sponsored ski to Italy for Help the Heros. He managed it competently and we had a great day out too. Well done Harry ! Ive added a photo below with his French and Italian flags!

The pistes are very quiet this week despite it being Easter. We think due to some Resorts having bad snow late season last year its put people off skiing late season. However this year we have had amazing snow to date and will hopefully restore faith in people you can have great skking in April.

Ive enclosed some pics from the last few weeks. The one with the Champagne bottles is from a Hen Ski I went on , a good friend getting married this year so we were celebrating her forthcoming event.