
This years Christmas and New year break was superb and we all enjoyed oodles of gorgeous food, nice wine and fantastic company despite most of it being French. A massive thank you or perhaps a super grand merci beaucoup to Marina and Gabriel for again being fabulous hosts… as always they made me feel very [...]

We’re back from another brilliant skiing trip to France and to top it all off, the house is still here and the fish is still alive! The weather on this one was a bit of mix though, glorious sunshine for the first and last days, heavy snow, fog and temperatures as low as minus 18 on the days between. I nearly chickened out because [...]

We spent Christmas in France this year which was brilliant and the perfect chance to test out my new snowboard! We arrived on the 21st and our first day of skiing was pretty uneventful, we just enjoyed the scenery at Collet d’Allevard while trying to remember how this skiing/boarding stuff is meant to work. By day two though, [...]

Today was the best day of all! The resort wasn’t quite as big as Collet d’allevard but the runs were narrow and winding with banks of soft snow either side to play on. Cedric and Roland came along so I decided to give boarding another go and hired a freshly waxed 157 which was perfect. Lucas had improved so [...]

After yesterdays boarding failure I decided to ski today which turned out to be more fun than i’d expected.. by the end of the day i’d decided to give up snowboarding all together! The runs here were much much longer and considering it was the weekend and the school holidays it was surprisingly quiet.. maybe the slight chill kept them [...]