End of one week and the beginning of another in Tignes

Its been interesting to be back in the saddle or to mix metaphors even more, to be back in the bindings!
The first 3 days were dominated by the bad weather in the UK which stopped a number of our clients getting here on time. We did have a number of people from Spain arrive which meant we could run the course more or less as normal and when the Brits arrived we did extra sessions to give them vfm. Good snow and good skiing soon helped to ease away the travel tension. Then the Spanish air traffic controllers went on strike.
The start of the first full week was made memorable by the worst the thing you can hear in a ski resort....a forecast of rain, which sadly came true, Last Monday was very wet, even up here where we sleep at 2100m it rained and it did not turn to snow until around 2450m which meant that it was hard to find anywhere to go that was not wet. Eventually we gave up on trying to get out of the rain and into the snow and skied on the lower part if the mountain near the trees where we could at least see what we were doing.
The next day was much better and fortunately the heat in the hotel bathrooms can be turned up to 11 so almost everything was dried out.
Since then we have had pretty much sunshine everyday with some light snow in the evening to freshen things up and some very good conditions both on and off piste.
The clients left this morning and as I write this in the lobby of the hotel in Tignes a few new people have arrived with bulk getting to the airport about now. The forecast for the coming week is pretty good if you like sun and low temperatures and there is some snow due at the end of the week.
Its very sociable at this time of the season with many old friends working in Tignes because its the only major resort open. Was at a birthday dinner the other night and the total number of years working as a professional ski teacher was added up.Out of 15 people, the total of all the ages was 655 and teaching years 294 so the average per instructor of 294 divided by 15 = 19.6. My own total is 23. It'll be 24 in April.