Skiing

If you read Algernond’s blog, you’ll probably be familiar with how irresponsible he is. Running with a chest infection, getting badgered into off-piste skiing and walking up to closed peaks, and stuff like this: The problem is that having spent a week hanging around with a reprobate like this, some of it’s bound to rub...
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So I’m a bit late writing this up. You just wouldn’t believe how much work had piled up in the week we had away skiing. There were no ski lessons on Saturday, so Daughter and I heade off up the lifts & over the mountain to Courchevel 1850. It seems that in the week we’d...
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Today was Algernond’s and my last day to act like irresponsible juveniles - both our Daughters had extended skiing lessons, and were going to be busy until around 2pm, and then too tired to do anything at all. So we set ourselves a challenge - to ski the entire perimeter of Courchevel, taking in every...
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On Thursday, there was no ski school, so Daughter and I got to do some distance together on our skis. Like Algernond with his Petite, I found this exhausting, so I can only imagine how tiring it was for Daughter. She can ski - turns starting to parallel-up, and the ability to snow-plough to a...
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I had a spare half hour today, where I could go for a run, and be back in time to pick Daugher up from her Ski school. So that’s just what I did - running down the red piste to La Tania central, and then along the road to Le Praz. This was a...
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So we got here last night at around midnight, and by the time I got to bed, it was nearer to one in the morning. Then for some reason, I got virtual jet lag. Never had this? Well it’s where you wake up at about 2am, and you’re brain says, Hello! It’s morning! Time to...
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You know those days where you have a deadline that cannot be missed? And unlike Douglas Adams, you can’t just admire the ‘wooshing’ sound it makes as it passes? Yeah. Well, I had that sort of day yesterday. I had to . . . Finish off the periscope for my rugged video camera. Periscope? What!?!! Well...
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Wooo wooo wooo! Despite the delays with EasyJet, getting lost on our way out of Geneva, and generally not having had enough sleep, we got to go skiing last Sunday! Daughter had a private 1:1 lesson with the excellent Sally from the Snow Institute (HIGHLY recommended if you’re staying in Morzine) on Sunday afternoon, and...
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No? Are you sure? A taxi picking you up at 03:50 (to quote Robin Williams - the “0″ is there ‘cos Oh my God, it’s early!), two hours hanging around an airport, a flight to Geneva, another hour waiting, and then a 45 minute drive up to Morzine, and skiing by lunch tme? No? Oh, I’ve...
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