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The magic of arrival
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the magic of arrival for me, now with my daughters, is the settling into the apartment on the first afternoon, followed by the obligatory trip to the boulangerie on the first full morning to pick up the delicious pastries and baguettes for that day.

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I will never forget the look on the grandkids faces when they see proper snow for the first time and see them learn to ski and learn to love it like we do is wonderful


though this will never beat the first family ski trip, like @robs1, where my girls saw the snow covered mountains for the first time on the A43 on our drive out for our first ever ski holiday, where they asked if they could ski down "that slope" it was a severe incline Toofy Grin Toofy Grin


and personally for me, my first ever ski trip via the old T/O party train, and seeing all the snowy mountains ans snow to to the valley floor around albertville, that memory still makes me smile
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Owlette wrote:
The other magical bit for me is the very first morning. Opening the curtains and seeing the snow outside the window....


Definitely.

I think we've had two of the last trips where we've arrived in resort and it's been mild and the ground dry with no snow, only to wake up the following morning with acres if the stuff. Even as an adult, it still gets me excited.
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Even as an adult, it still gets me excited.


I once woke my husband at 2 am, when I'd got up to go to the loo, to tell him it was snowing. He was surprisingly pleasant about it.
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I’m with Boris on the incremental steps to joy.
We have a 3-4hr drive down to Edinburgh or Glasgow to catch our flight. Given that it isn’t unknown for the A9 to close over winter, we always head off the day before and spend the night before in an airport hotel. Shutting up shop early if necessary.
The end of work never really kicks in until I’m sat, pint in hand, in that hotel, having driven down and put the car keys away for a week.
The following day we’ll go through duty free, and pay over the top for a similar bottle in the shops back home! But it’s become part of tradition.
Then, after flying and transfers, you arrive in resort. If it’s early enough, you either/
1. Go for a stroll, taking in new surrounds and getting your bearings, then settle in for the first meal.
Or,
2. If you are returning, chat with familiar hoteliers, reconnecting with the vibe.

If it’s late on, you are hoping that you
make it to the hotel before the cold plates come out. Even if you don’t get a hot meal, you still have the pleasure of throwing open the curtains in the morning and seeing the vista again/for the first time.
Then a rather itchy breakfast. Leisurely breakfasts naturally kick in as the week progresses.

Other than bad weather/conditions (or covid a while back) there really is nothing not to get you gushing. Especially the dram on the balcony at the end of each ski day.
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i have started to enjoy a different approach to arrivals.
A flight is just a flight to me, I travel a lot for work & landing in Geneva is nothing special it is just another city, much like the city I live in.
Recently how ever I have swapped from hire car to train for my transfer & this has opened up the experience. Once you clear the underground you slowly see the transformation of a city outlook to a country side outlook to a more more mountain like outlook, something you never really get to see when you are driving. The real joy is now at the arrival station, it is now a gondola from the train station up to Saint Gervais.
Add to this that I am basically only carrying hand luggage & it is a very pleasant arrival
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Arriving will take on a different aspect for us now, as we finally bought (a pretty ramshackle) place in the mountains.

So it could be either "this is amazing", or "OMG, why is the heating broken and all the lights not working, and how the hell do we get over that giant frozen ploughed snow barricade blocking the drive?!".

Shall update when we turn up at the place on Boxing Day...here's hoping we don't wish we had bought a nice serviced apartment.
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