After crossing the Atlantic and arriving in Nassau at the end of November, I left Motor Yacht Dream for the last time. I had been on there on and off since January 2003 so it has been a bit of an adjustment, but I am looking forward to some new challenges ahead.

I managed a week or so in Antibes before building up a few more BA air miles on my way back to Miami to take a MCSE bootcamp. An intensive two weeks later I was on another plane on Christmas Eve flying back to Cornwall for my first Christmas there in quite a few years.

Following the festivities Vix and I headed home to Antibes and got ready for a ski trip to Isola 2000. Isola is a ski resort in the Alpes Maritimes around 1.5 hours drive from the airport in Nice. Since January 1st all bus fares on the Côte d’Azur have been reduced to 1 euro; so from Antibes to Isola was a grand total of 2 euros each!

We were lucky enough to have good base of fresh snow fall just before we arrived and we had blue skies nearly everyday so had a great time. If anyone is thinking of heading up there try and make it during the week if you can as the slopes were nearly deserted, the weekends however get quite packed with a lot of day trippers from the coast. I have also heard that February is very busy as it is the French school holidays. I will try and post some photos from our trip there, as soon as Antonia gets back from Thailand with them.

This entry was posted on Sunday, February 3rd, 2008 at 2:18 pm and is filed under Europe, Snow, Travels. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.