New Year in the Swiss mountains

There is nothing better than having a week with family, surrounded by snow and spending your days whizzing down steep slopes! Grindelwald in german-speaking Siwtzerland was the setting for my new year week.

It was a week of highs and lows (mostly falls), sunshine one day and really strong winds the next (my 12 year old brother almost got blown off a piste!). Lovely posh do at New Year and an extremely bumpy landing back into London City airport (first time in a while that I've been on a flight where people screamed, swore then applauded the pilots!)

Some pictures of our week below:

You can't get anywhere near a slope without getting on a train (or bus)

Hubby went extreme off-pisting, got lost and walked down a river to get back to civilisation!

 Grindelwald

A happy Snowflake in snow!

London City Airport

We're going on holiday! Will be spending New Year in Switzerland, skiing in a resort called Grindelwald: hubby and I, Dad, little brother (28), little sister (15) and littler brother (12 almost 13). I can't wait!

I've been skiing before but for the first time I am flying out of City airport. City is literally that, a small airport in the heart of London, on the river. The runway is tiny! According to friends who have flown out of here before you ascend and descend very quickly, not looking forward to that on the way back!