My dream of going to a far off land away from the tropics, among the vinyards and the cliffs of chamonix is coming true. I've checked air tickets to Paris and then to Bordeaux and they're relatively inexpensive. Considering under a thousand for a 14hour flight. If i remembered correctly, we forked out about a thousand for an 8hour(?) flight to Melbourne not long back. I'm too lazy to cont. maybe some other time.