 Poster: A snowHead
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| Driving home from the Alps sucks. |
Past two trips we've done it's been Easter weekend so we've made the decision to have 2 nights on the way home, which kind of makes the journey back feel like a mini-holiday. It's still a bummer to be leaving the snow, but thankfully visited some cool places so it's taken the sting off it.
Of course, the way home is also the time for planning the next holiday... 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Opening the suitcase on arrival home, and the fear of the credit card statement. Followed by the fear of my work email inbox. Still, I haven't yet arrived home with any injuries so gratitude and great memories.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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I used to get that, a bit. I'd be on the bus leaving somewhere quite hard to get to, and think that it'd be another year until I'd be back there. Then I figured out how to fix it: ride more. Now I just manage the size of the gaps between trips. There's a lot you can't get/ do in a ski resort, so being "a Citizen of Nowhere" is the best way to do it, for me.
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Its packing for the return that always feels a bit of a chore to find the time for on the final evening. (Even though I'll have re-learnt just a week before how best to fit boots and helmet in my case it always seems to have minor complications - and it just doesn't have that same excitement as packing before the holiday.)
But on most of my recent holidays I've still had the return train and ferry rides to look forward to - it only gets a bit mundane once I leave the ferry terminal.
However, I've booked Eurostar for my next trip and only discovered last week that i might have a four or five hour train journey I'm still hoping its a delay in updating timetables (or that planned work might yet change) but its looking like the East Coast Main Line may not be running that weekend! with two or three changes to get back to Newcastle - a long multi-leg journey through England after dark in February is not really the most enjoyable train trip.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Since 2020 we have longer trips of four weeks so when we leave just as the brit half term starts spring is not far away and while sad we can look back on a months stay, we too often leave Friday afternoon as we tend to avoid the Friday afternoon nut cases skiing far too fast and beer fuelled, having been hit several times Fridays we pack up at two and get to the apartment and get away and stay partway home to avoid the sat morning rush out of resort
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I suppose there's no easy way to ski from a Newcastle base, @robs1, but you do get to live in a great part of the country. Can't have everything!
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I’m grateful enough if I avoid injury for departure to be OK usually but remember one that miserable. Before the 6am transfer coach had even left Tignes, my young son puked all over my shirt and lap. It was a very long, disgustingly smelly, journey back to Geneva.
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