Oh Dear its gone quite out there!

OldAndy wrote:Packing today for a visit to Tignes tomorrow :lol:
Weather forecast is hilarious !!
Sunny Monday morning then snow ! Which will be rain at resort level but up high on the glacier - snow.
Could be very interesting conditions. Fair bit still open, links and runs back to resort, and I WILL have a great time.
:thumbup:

Old Andy - where are you? Did you have a good time?

Have been looking out for your report - but not a dickie bird from you....

Speak............

Dids1 wrote:

OldAndy wrote:Packing today for a visit to Tignes tomorrow :lol:
Weather forecast is hilarious !!
Sunny Monday morning then snow ! Which will be rain at resort level but up high on the glacier - snow.
Could be very interesting conditions. Fair bit still open, links and runs back to resort, and I WILL have a great time.
:thumbup:

Old Andy - where are you? Did you have a good time?

Have been looking out for your report - but not a dickie bird from you....

Speak............

Well old andy is old ...... he is possibly curled up in his favourite chair, wearing his favourite slippers, smoking his favourite pipe :D

Dids1 wrote:

Old Andy - where are you? Did you have a good time?

Have been looking out for your report - but not a dickie bird from you....

Speak............

:oops:
Well .......
Firstly my apologies, I intended to write something and also a general thank you to everyone but when I started the words wouldn't flow.
I have been grieving the end of the ski season! This year feels like a "season" to me - a great hol early on and another right at the end with a huge amount of fun in between, thanks to the forum.
For the first time in many years a couple of weeks skiing just wasn't enough :cry:
And I'm finding that tough!
But - back to Tignes. :mrgreen:
A wonderful time was had - snow; typical spring, ranging from solid ice to knee deep slush as you would expect. With powder, blizzards, white outs, rain, blazing sunshine all mixed in! +8C to -11C at 3200m was noted over the week.
The snow up really high was lovely but visibility meant that we had to pick and choose our time up there.
The best part was that my sister can still ski - she has had some serious surgery on her back since she last skied and so was a little nervous.
The funniest part was my niece - 24yo, seriously fit (rows for her University), who could not understand why the two old codgers didn't get as tired as she was!
I took pity on her later in the week :lol:
She said "wow - that's so easy!"
Just about letting the hill take down the speed at the end of the turn (ie: finish the turn) rather than braking and using muscles so much.
He He He
Thanks for your comments and here's to the next time on skis.
:thumbup:

Cool, just hoped all was well!!!

Glad you had a good time...Happy Summer

Just back from Thassos, lovely Island.
It was 37c much of the 2nd week we were there, but mentally they had 1.5 metres of snow on the ground in April.
I just find that so hard to imagine.

Tony_H wrote:Just back from Thassos, lovely Island.
It was 37c much of the 2nd week we were there, but mentally they had 1.5 metres of snow on the ground in April.
I just find that so hard to imagine.

Glad you and yours had a great time ..... now back to work :wink:

Tony_H wrote:they had 1.5 metres of snow on the ground in April.

:shock:

Amazing - and more than some of The Alps at that time!

You not on holiday this week then Tony? :lol:

Admin wrote:

Tony_H wrote:they had 1.5 metres of snow on the ground in April.

:shock:

Amazing - and more than some of The Alps at that time!

You not on holiday this week then Tony? :lol:

Indeed. I thought it was a tall story but the Thomson rep showed me a photo.

Busy this week writing reviews )