Posted on February 25th, 2008 by Karl On Sea
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 then […]
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Posted on February 23rd, 2008 by Karl On Sea
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 done […]
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Posted on January 20th, 2008 by Karl On Sea
On Saturday the pistes were all really crunchy - a slight thaw on Friday night had been followed by a re-freeze. Ordinarily this wouldn’t be a problem . . . but there were also a whole bunch of day-tripping skiers around, going at it like lunatics. So VonSmallHaussen and I just did a couple of […]
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Posted on January 18th, 2008 by Karl On Sea
I am SO behind with this. OK, this post is the last one with any detail at all before I try to bring my training record up to date.
On Friday we arranged to go skiing with our chalet hosts - the excellent Katie & Ash who had been looking after us for the week at […]
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Posted on January 17th, 2008 by Karl On Sea
So on Thursday we decided to go for broke, and get from Courchevel to the valley beyond Val Thorens. It was like visiting the land that time forgot. I’ve been going into far too much detail on these trips, so here are the highlights:
We took the brand new Cime Caron cable car over into this […]
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Posted on January 16th, 2008 by Karl On Sea
So last Tuesday night it snowed. During Wednesday, both Von SmallHaussen and Mrs Tall Friend both had lessons booked, which left me, Tall Friend and Algernon Crupe free to go exploring the wilder side of Courchevel.
No, not this mythical ‘après ski’. I must be getting old, but I find that after a full day skiing, […]
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Posted on January 15th, 2008 by Karl On Sea
I’ve been skiing twice before in the Three Valleys. Every time, we’ve stayed in the lower part of Courchevel (Le Praz or La Tania), ‘cos staying higher up involves spending a whole lot more money than I can justify. And every time, we’ve tried to ski all the way to Val Thorens and back - […]
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Posted on January 14th, 2008 by Karl On Sea
So after Sunday’s tentative return to skiing, it was time to roll my metaphorical sleeves up, and get right in. There were seven of us (plus two babies) staying in Family Friendly Skiing’s chalet ‘Nid Alpin’, and we all headed off up the mountain on Monday morning for a trip over the Col de Loze […]
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Posted on January 14th, 2008 by Karl On Sea
I took my running stuff to France last week. So on our first morning there, I bounced out of bed feeling absolutely Tiggeriffic, and headed out for a short run down the hill from La Tania to Le Praz & back before everyone else was out of bed.
This was surprisingly difficult - I guess for […]
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Posted on January 13th, 2008 by Karl On Sea
Last Sunday (13th) was a LONG day. 04:20 alarm clock for a drive to the airport from Algernon’s house in Cambridge (that’s the Semiconductor Engineer’s new label - just so that you know). Then the flight to Geneva, met by Tall Friend & Co for the transfer to Courchevel . . . arriving just after […]
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