Next season ......

Morzine is part of a big European road trip. Driving to Spa for the Grand Prix then on to morzine and back home via Reims staying in a big posh chateau.

Should be a good summer :)

Gear may be washed and packed away but it's just regaining its strength for the next season ... ;0)

I plan to enjoy the summer here and keep an eye on the webcams.

Plus, I always think that the summers are so short for those who rely on the mountain pastures for their living - being an Alpine farmer must be hell! You're constantly clock-watching to gain grazing, get the new calves and lambs going, turn them out, put aside grassland for hay and winter forage, gather it in and then before you can blink the damn snow comes down again and you're in for many long months of feeding, watering and mucking out.

Very perceptive, Penelope. Towards the end of my first season, I was offered a summer job, working at my friend Herbert's mountain farm.I respectfully declined,figuring that I would generate more income as a contract engineering designer in one week, than I would earn in a whole summer working in the Alm.

Fast forward to last winter when I caught up with a fellow instructor from my time, he now spends his summer doing exactly what I was offered. His wife visits him at weekends.

Now then....

Penelope Pitstop wrote:Gear may be washed and packed away but it's just regaining its strength for the next season ... ;0)

I plan to enjoy the summer here and keep an eye on the webcams.

Plus, I always think that the summers are so short for those who rely on the mountain pastures for their living - being an Alpine farmer must be hell! You're constantly clock-watching to gain grazing, get the new calves and lambs going, turn them out, put aside grassland for hay and winter forage, gather it in and then before you can blink the damn snow comes down again and you're in for many long months of feeding, watering and mucking out.

move?

Been busy here at Chez BB on the holiday planning side of things...

Mallorca, end of August - booked

Val d'Isere, New Year - booked

Lech or 3V or maybe somewhere else, Feb 15 - on 'to do' list

:D

Snapzzz wrote:

move?

Er ... you've lost me there, Snapzzz!

Oh dear! Started to plan my next year's skiing, by booking flight to Innsbruck, as I have done at this time for several years, and B*gg*r me if the fares aren't three times the price this time!!! :cry:

It'll be the usual for me. Wait until about 2-3 months before we go. May well for Easter next year. I quite fancy Christmas but the family will most likely veto that idea. Shame!