La Rosiere, France

Since we are basically taking a year or 2 off from careers, or working out our new careers, we decided that a ski season would be good idea, as we probably wouldn't have an opportunity to do anything like it again. Steve had only skiied for 2 days before that but he was not deterred. Also, we had put together the odd dinner party before but catering for up to 15 or even more, for 6 days a week was also slightly outside our experience. However, we thought we could do it, we found an employer who also thought we could do it and on 1 December 2007 we arrived in Geneva airport. It was snowing when we arrived and it continued to snow for the next 2 weeks while we learnt about cleaning (and I mean CLEANING!), looking after the hot tubs, living in the mountains, and practiced 5 course meals by cooking for our colleagues every few days.