Europe 2018 Day 3

I Had a reasonably good nights sleep, woke at 3.00am finished reading "The Ananse Boys" by Niel Gaiman ( a very imaginative and humourous book). I had read instead of watching movies, started this novel on the first flight. Then back to sleep re-awakening at 7.30am.
Lynette on the other hand has had a reoccurring headache and had to take more tablets last night.
The hotel had a free breakfast buffet, there was cereal, muesli, fruits, yoghurts, bread, meats and cheeses, croissants, sweet pastries and an assortment of breads. We started with coffee and went from there. We skipped lunch later in the day.
Went back to our room to blog-facebook, read and relax. Our next stage was to get the free shuttle back to the airport to meet a group coming in from the UK as we were transferring together to the Chalet.
We made many introductions at the airport, then coached it up to the Chalet crossing over into France, it was only about an hour and a half. Once at the Chalet we were greeted by our host, shown to our rooms and given a short induction as to the house rules, emergency contacts and instructions. WiFi codes and other essentials. We were also given a weekly transport pass. Mary-Ann and John had arrived earlier and had already walked to town and back.
After a quick unpack a group of 5 walked into town ( Lynette, Myself, Jill, Aaron and Martin) . It is early summer here, there a numerous birds chirping, the day was quite warm and as the day warms up the clouds cover the mountain. We had intermittent views of Mont Blanc we fills the vista. In town the first stop was a small ice cream parlour where we were served by a pretty lass from the exotic place called Melbourne. At the end of the street was the cable car which goes to the summit of Mid du Aguilera. It is broken for the next 3 to 4 weeks so we won't be enjoying that. Past that was a couple of ski jumps, you could imagine our surprise when it looked like somebody had just gone down it with no snow. We went for a closer look. Sure enough a group of youngsters were having jumping practice, with a little water under the skis and landing on water soaked fake grass. We then headed back into the older part of town over the river. It was very quant, we stopped to soak in the ambience and a couple of beers. From our seat in the sun was a great view of Mont Blanc with the scattered clouds revealing different portions of the whole. We then walked the 20 minutes back to the Chalet Chocolat to meet the other walkers in our group. Mary-Ann started a game of "guess my profession". This was a good, get to know game will we also enjoyed cake and coffee. This took us up to when Nick our walking guide arrived and gave us a briefing on what to expect for the next day and week.