Yes!
Yes! It’s that time of year again. Your favourite humorous self aggrandising holiday blog is back, and this time, we’re frivolous.
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Gravity!
This years top mountain destination is the Valmeinier-Valloire combination of the French region Savoie. The area has all the ingredients us monkeys need for a week of gravity powered fun. It’s cheap too!
This years top mountain destination is the Valmeinier-Valloire combination of the French region Savoie. The area has all the ingredients us monkeys need for a week of gravity powered fun. It’s cheap too!
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Sumptuous!
Regular readers will no doubt be confused by this years choice of a European destination. One only has to consider the fulsome praise lavished on our North American resorts last season where sumptuous on-piste dining and comfort facilities scored particularly well compared with their dowdy European counterparts.
The circumstances surrounding the shift of venue this year are diverse. Some of the team felt keenly about a responsibility to reduce our carbon footprint…… particularly whilst the dollar is so strong compared to the ailing pound. No ten hour flight to San Francisco for us this year. Shamefaced at our previous attitude towards transatlantic air travel we going green and relying on the good old motor car to get us where we want to go. A resolution to support the larger European family and a philanthropic desire to prop up the ailing French economy has certainly played its part in the recent volte-face. Frankly though it’s the credit-crunch that has had the most telling impact on our choice this year, that and the perpetually mystifying lack of “Fat Cat” style bonuses. “Cheap and cheerful please, were all skint".
Regular readers will no doubt be confused by this years choice of a European destination. One only has to consider the fulsome praise lavished on our North American resorts last season where sumptuous on-piste dining and comfort facilities scored particularly well compared with their dowdy European counterparts.
The circumstances surrounding the shift of venue this year are diverse. Some of the team felt keenly about a responsibility to reduce our carbon footprint…… particularly whilst the dollar is so strong compared to the ailing pound. No ten hour flight to San Francisco for us this year. Shamefaced at our previous attitude towards transatlantic air travel we going green and relying on the good old motor car to get us where we want to go. A resolution to support the larger European family and a philanthropic desire to prop up the ailing French economy has certainly played its part in the recent volte-face. Frankly though it’s the credit-crunch that has had the most telling impact on our choice this year, that and the perpetually mystifying lack of “Fat Cat” style bonuses. “Cheap and cheerful please, were all skint".
Van?
So who’s going? Perennial tourists Phil Ashworth an Rhodri Evans will once again be leading the van in the assault on Europes finest slopes. The battle is further joined by two more crowd-pleasing picks and returning tourists Kevin Carrick and Ashley Georgeson to make up what can rightly be considered something of a touring dream team. (Think Harlem Globetrotters on snow)
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Exotic.
Tell me more about the resort blogmaster! I hear you say. Well, the two villages of Valloire and Valmeinier straddle the three small valleys that make up the Galibier-Thabor ski area. Only a couple of miles from Italy there are plenty of resorts in the proximity. Indeed the team are provisionally planning an excursion to the exotic delights of Sauze d’Oulx which is just the other side of the Frejus tunnel. It's a re-visit for one of the monkeys, but who???
Austrians?
One facet of the holiday we are anticipating an improvement on compared with last season is in the crucial area of Apres-Ski. No-one does mental snow related disco-bar-restaurants like the French, except perhaps the Austrians. But we’re not going there so it’s “bonjour” Pierre and “he-he-he-he-he-hello” badly mixed Europop.
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Ramping!
Countdown posts will be ramping up the excitement over the next couple of weeks in preparation for departure on the 27th of March, live updates being available soon after. A new addition this year will see the introduction of a “Cut out and Keep” list of runs completed all strictly categorised for the budding obsessive-compulsive amongst you. (A first for a British Blogsite)
Countdown posts will be ramping up the excitement over the next couple of weeks in preparation for departure on the 27th of March, live updates being available soon after. A new addition this year will see the introduction of a “Cut out and Keep” list of runs completed all strictly categorised for the budding obsessive-compulsive amongst you. (A first for a British Blogsite)
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See you soon.
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Rhodri.
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