Ian Wickham in LGB

I had a text last night from Wickers to say they had just had a massive dump of snow as he was travelling, plus the clutch has just gone on his car, so he is having to get a flight from Geneva to Stansted to get home, the car will follow later on I presume via international breakdown.

What is it with travel and people on this website this season????

Driving to the Alps eh ;)

I'm just kidding. That's rough, hope everything is sorted out and the Wickhams get home safe and well.

Yep, hi guys we are back safe and sound minus car, it dumped on friday night Saturday morning which made travelling home a bit of a pain and yes the clutch went on the car, bugger.
It went just outside Geneva so spent the night in a place called Annamass and travelled back via Geneva yesterday, the five star cover people were excellent with organising the car pick up,
Taxi's and flights home even sorted out a hire car at Stansted and they were constantly supportive by phone with all the hanging around we had to do, even translated via a three way conference call with the french police who had to be notified as the break down was on the private autoroute,they even paid for the excess luggage charge at the airport, lucky for us my brother in law was behind us so he was able to take little W to save her any distress.
So I now have to wait for the repatriation of my poor car which could take up to ten days, the car is still under warranty so it should not cost me any money hopefully !!! just now the pain and expense
of a hire car till I can organise a courtesy car from the garage in Norwich when they receive mine back from France.

In case you are wondering I did stipulate with Axa, the five star company I use, that I will not fly Ryanair and yes they booked us on a flight with easyjet :wink: :wink:

What do you drive Ian? Glad all is well 8)

Wickers, glad you are all okay. We shipped out Friday night after considering the weather forecast. We drove across the Jura very slowly in heavy snowfall, avoiding a few French cars in ditches!

I think you would have been pretty safe with avoiding Ryanair in Geneva. I don't think they fly there :D

Seat Altea XL, had it a couple of years now and never had a moments trouble, what I'm pee'd off about is that I had to leave three sets of skis in the top box :evil: :evil:

Ian Wickham wrote:Seat Altea XL, had it a couple of years now and never had a moments trouble, what I'm pee'd off about is that I had to leave three sets of skis in the top box :evil: :evil:

Ahhh, the old Seat clutch problem, eh?
I had a Leon FR tdi for 2 years, and it was a brilliant car. Except that the soot filter was far too sensitive and had to be replaced under warranty 3 times after putting a speed limiter in place on the car, and strangely enough THE CLUTCH WENT after something like 30,000 miles.
I understand there is an issue with the clutches on the diesel models?
Hope you get sorted soon, sounds like your cover was good and you got sorted out ok.

How was the holiday itself mate?

The holiday was great weather was snow,fog,snow fog,sun,snow,snow so conditions were really great did a fair bit of off piste the kids loved that nothing too daring just between the pistes, I got taken to the snow park by Little W and was made to do some jumps she sailed across them and I at least did manage to get over them without falling so she was quite impressed that the old fella survived but I did draw the line at the half pipe.
What I did notice that there was quite a few idiots about this year and I don't want to sound anti snowboarders because I am not but one nearly wiped out Mrs W on night skiing evening, and there were a few other near misses through the week :evil:

A few other interesting notes:

1. Approx. 10% of skiers wore helmets
2. No ski instructors wore helmets
3. Restaurant prices increased by 15%
4. Half litre of house wine €9
5. Small beer €3.5
6. Plat du jour €11
7. Spag bol €8
8. Pizza €10
9. Cola €2.8
10. Small plate of chips €3.5
11. Large plate of chips €6
12. Menu Enfant €6-€8