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A month ago we announced that we were hiring. We've now hired!
I was out in Les Contamines earlier this month and, in the space of 24 hours, handed in my tax files to the accountants and spent four hours interviewing our new chalet manager, Louise. Since then, she has been so busy working on the chalet and the gardens, that it's taken us this long for us to get a photo of her. When she does send us one, it's of her on the top of Mt. Blanc!
That's our kind of Chalet Manager - living and breathing the exhilaration of the mountains. In fact, this came across loud and clear during our discussions - Louise is sitting her mountain guiding exams this summer and was studying to be a mountain rescuer this winter. No common-or-garden piste ski-ing for her!
It's difficult to know whether to introduce Louise as being English, French or Swiss. She speaks French and English like a native, which has probably got something to do with the fact that her parents are English and Swiss and she was brought up 10 minutes down the valley, in St. Gervais. She now lives on the edge of Les Contamines, so can be at the chalet at the drop of a hat, which is great.
Louise will be working with us this summer and, if supporting her husband's (second) attempt to set a world record rowing across the Atlantic doesn't get in the way, we hope she'll be able to manage the chalet for us this winter as well.
We'll keep you posted!
