Epic Journey

We all arrived at Heathrow on time which was a minor miracle so we proceeded to check-in only to find our flight CANCELLED because the pilot was ill - nice to know BA have no spare pilots!

The best deal we could get was a free night in a local hotel and a next day flight to Toronto then onward Air Canada flight and thankfully they ran to schedule and over 36hours after I left home we arrived at our hotel in Whistler.

We made the most of our 7 hour stopover in Toronto by taking taxis to downtown Toronto where we whooshed up the CN Tower, a most impressive structure - I’m about to head off for breakfast so I’ll let Julian post the pics later.

My first ever ski lesson was amazing - we took a ski lift way up into the mountain then Barnaby from Dorset coached us through the basics and now I can do snow ploughs or “pizzas” awesome - mental even - that’s ski-speak apparently

The hotel is really very comfortable so top marks to Julian for that - although rumour has it there wasn’t much choice for a party of 7 booked at the last minute