Autumn in the French Alps - between the road bike and ski seasons

As I mentioned in my previous post, our final guests for 2012 road bike season left last weekend and it is amazing how quickly the Autumn has taken a hold since then. Some of our guests may recognise the road between La Tania and Meribel in the picture below, the photo was taken by Anne in the middle of the week. Over the last couple of days we have seen an even bigger change in the landscape and Autumn colours.

This is now our interseason and we will be trying to get the Cycle Hame 2013 Summer season programme completed and onto the website. Some of the planned trips are already on the site and we do have a few weeks booked already. It does look as though the Marmotte week and the Tour de France week are going to be popular, and will book up quickly, so if either of these are of interest let us know soon.

On top of getting the Summer programme completed we are also preparing for the 2012-2013 Ski Hame season and as the Winter approaches it really does keep us busy.This year we expect our preparation to be a little easier to get organised than the last couple of years. Aiden will be 3 in a couple of weeks and in France that means he has started school already. Anne and I were anxious about this to begin with, we have now accepted that it will be good for him socially, and in reality it is just like pre-school but takes place in the local school. Now I think it is the teachers I worry about more, he has recently adopted a new imaginary persona named Tom and thinks he is magic - he is not Tom and he is not magic. To make it even more difficult, he rabbits on all day long in English and the poor French teachers don't have a clue what he is talking about. Still, it helps us to get on with our work here and I am sure they will all work it out in the end.