Visit to UK

Ski Season

New Year 2009

After our drive back to Munich via the beautiful town of Freiburg, where we spent a night, we rested quickly before meeting up with friends nearby for a New Year's dinner. Mattéo and Juliette as well as several other children joined in the fun and watched the private firework displays until the early hours. Mattéo was also put to work as a very elegant snacks waiter.
A bit bleary eyed, we set off, on 1 January, for our Hutte in Tirol for three days. The conditions were chilly, but very sunny. We managed to get used to the heating regime needed in the Hutte (all wood burning heaters) and most importantly we got to know our local ski resort : Kuhtai.

It was quickly clear that neither Mattéo nor Juliette had lost any of their enthusiasm for skiing. Before long, we found Mattéo skiing backwards down a red run, giving Juliette encouragement and a few tips!!

We got home on the Sunday evening and entertained Floppy with the children's racing track.

Happy Christmas

A lovely Christmas spent in France, mainly near Paris with Erika and Emmanuel and partly in the Loire valley to see Alister's parents.

A visit to the Cirque d'Hiver and a walk along the window displays in on Christmas Eve and then an exciting Christmas Day with all 7 cousins, plus uncles aunts and grandparents.

Birthday Boy

Eight friends for an eighth birthday. Mattéo had a collective present from his friends - a remote controlled "jet" plane. Its first two test flights were fine and the third flight went so well that a large part of the rest of the day was spent by Alister retrieving it (successfully) from a tree!!

Mattéo's M'amie was happy to be part of the party and our dear friend Rene treated us to a lovely magic show at the end.

Autumn

The first snow of the season coincided with a trip to Heidi's Hutte - lots of fun in the deep and powdery snow and then some board games in the warm living room.







The highlight of our autumn was a visit to Renato and family in the eternal city - Rome. Lovely to see our friends and exciting for Mattéo and Juliette to discover so many things.

Summer 2008

Sunshine and jazz, happy walks and fun in the water.

We spent the summer in France after the week in Hardelot. Delphine and the children enjoyed the beach near Pornic on the Atlantic coast.

Alister found the children in Angers at his mother's house and spent a very enjoyable week at the Jazz workshop of the Angers music conservatory.

When we returned to Munich, Juliette started with her new english language kindergarten at the European School.

Of course we continued visiting the hut in Tirol and were able to help out more physically with the haymaking.