My brother Neil came to visit for a long w/e on his way to a conference in London, and we had a fab, fab time with him. I think we showed him a pretty good Chamonix time - we did a really long hike on Friday while the girls were in school up to Bel Lachat at over 2000m (we definitely didn't cut Neil any 'newbie' slack), then we did the market on Saturday morning, some climbing at Les Gaillands on Saturday afternoon and fit in another hike on Sunday. We also introduced him to the joys of raclette on Saturday night - and trust me, that's a meal that really sticks with you for a long time. We were extremely sorry to see him go, of course, and the girls are missing him already, he really is the best uncle in the world. Neil has confessed to relying on his lovely wife Ellen to relay the blog updates (shout out to Ellen - we missed you! Wish you could have come too) - so Ellen, tell Neil, this one's for him.
Then it was climbing at Les Gaillands - we almost had the place to ourselves, since I don't think it occurs to people to go climbing in mid-November here, despite the sunshine. The girls' weekly climbing lessons are really starting to show - Toby purposefully chose what he thought were pretty challenging routes, and the girls still managed to run up them. Good on 'em.
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