Day one

Well, I finally got here last night at around 9 after some pretty crap organisation by the company who's organising this whole jaunt. They would probably fail the "arse and elbow" part of the IQ test.

My room is what a London estate agent would describe as "a compact studio apartment in a desirable development with all mod cons", in other words there is not enough room to throttle a mouse let alone swing a cat and we have a kettle. For those of you who went to Tignes a few years ago, my apparment is slightly bigger than that one and there are three of us. Bets are on as to exactly how stinky the room will be at the end of 11 weeks. My only consolation is that I'm not sharing with Adam (kidding mate).

Anyway the snow is currently ok, a bit patchy in places and prone to the usual Val/Tignes icyness. Hopefully there will be snow mid week.

For those of you interested in the guess brians weight loss (or gain) sweep stake I am setting my starting weight at 100kg in tshirt, jeans and trainers.

As for inside information i can say that the provided breakfast is cereal and jam on toast. I will be eating a sandwich for lunch, probably made from jam and bread swiped at brakfast.