Festiveness and snowyness

So; haven't updated for a while, so decided it was time to, or I'll stop doing this altogether, which I think would be a shame.

Christmas has been good, back in England, lovely to be home again, and just chill out. Saw couple friends too, and managed to see most of my family. Went down to visit a certain someone (you know who you are) in Bristol for couple days, which was great fun! ^_^

Came back to Geneva for New Year; delayed flight because our plane, and all the others, couldn't get out of the Geneva airport due to really bad weather. Made it in the end though; near 5 hours late. In the end, just watched the New Year (or Bonne Annee) celebrations on the telly, as it was mostly magic acts or acrobats, no translations necessary, which was actually fairly good. Got the can-can at midnight instead of Auld Lang Syne, but you can't have everything! And people were setting fireworks off in the street.

Went back to Fort l'Ecluse yesterday for the afternoon, then into Geneva for a wander round the lake before getting a boat back to the car. Driven all around the lake today; up to Lausanne and Montreux to Chateau Chillon, which is the other extreme end of the lake from Geneva. Was fantastic fortress/castle thing to look round, although shame there was not a slightly better view.

Then drove the rest of the way down the lake, past Thonon and Evian (yes, the same place as the water) and where I used to live in Douvaine and through Geneva to get home.

Plan to get to Lyon tomorrow, and then Chamonix -possibly by train to save driving again- on Sunday.

Lovely to have so much snow around too; proper, stays-all-winter, crunchy snow!