Christmas meet-up

We’re waiting for the bus outside the office. It’s late. We pile onboard and head through the countryside to the UNESCO Saline Royale site for our meet-up.

It’s an impressive venue, but the conference room we’re led to is just that. And the projector isn’t working. Neither is the mobile mic. Eventually, Laurent calls things to order.

Lunch is a sit down affair, complete with wine. This leads into an afternoon competition. Forty question cards have been secreted around the site and, in teams of four, we have to find them and answer the questions. There’s also an element of “human curling” on the ice rink.

As the sun burns away we climb back on the bus. I get forty winks at the hotel before it’s time to get back in a car and head into town for our evening meal at 1802. There’s not-so-secret-Santa, a group photograph, lots of food and wine. And then back to the hotel for much needed sleep.