Day 24

So it's official - I'm going to Tignes!!

Seven whole days snowboarding in the heart of the French Alps.  Home to the Grande Motte glacier it has over 300kms of pistes, 97 lifts (including 2 high speed underground trains) and will be the site of this years Winter X-Games the week before I arrive!  How awesome is that...

I checked with Niklas today and we've done a deal - I can do my trip to France as long as I work the Friday and Monday over Easter.  Given that I can work from the apartment if I can't be bothered going in to the office I figure it's fair (did I mention I get to go BOARDING IN THE FRENCH ALPS?).

I'm going with a French tour company called UCPA that has sites in a number of the top French resorts and offers all-inclusive packages.  I get picked up by bus on Friday 19th March from Helsingborg and driven all the way to the resort (about 20 hours - ouch).  Board for seven days, then jump back on the bus and arrive home the following Sunday, 28th March - all ready to start work again on Monday...

With all this excitement you might wonder how I manage to get any work done.  I actually had a satisfying day at the office today - solved a couple of problems, got some things done.  Lunch was meatloaf with boiled potatoes and some weird brown sauce.  Just okay.

I was in high spirits after work so decided to cook up a decent meal.  Went for pepper steak with smokey chipotle BBQ sauce and a green salad.  Even stopped at the local Systembolaget and picked up a 250ml bottle of Jacob's Creek Shiraz Cab.  It was awesome!

Dinner fit for a king!

Off to Gothenburg tomorrow with Magnus for a couple of meetings with Volvo IT.  It's a two and a half hour drive each way so will be a good chance to see some more of the beautiful Swedish countryside.