Do you think beer prices are high in ski resorts........

Really, Caron-a, tell me more ...

Except maybe you'd better tell me in a pm, if you want to, so I don't get into more wibbly trouble.

Ally

Beer is expensive but vodka is extortionate! (They are large measures though. :thumbup: so I don't grumble too much!)

Ally wrote:

I remember being very surprised that my ski instructor in La Rosiere drove down to Bourg St Maurice to buy his milk, because it cost so much in the resort.

Aye lass, that may be the reason he gave to you for driving to BsM, perchance there was a woman?

Obviously, this woman would have been a hotshot skier. (Wibble avoidment!)

Or maybe he was filling up his car with crates of cheap beer/wine (to get it 100% back on topic - all efforts in this direction very much appreciated) :D

AllyG wrote:

Tony,
That's quite interesting, that you are looking at it from a ski-centric point of view (rather than a euro-centric one), thus explaining why you know where Gothenburg is, but not Kitwe. Zambia is on a plateau, and I seem to remember that the whole country is 6,000 feet up in the air, but I am also pretty sure that it doesn't have any ski resorts :D .

I wasn't but I tried to pull it back round to being ski related by mentioning that Sweden has some ski slopes. It has absolutely nothing to do with how I know where Gothenburg is, and I would also wager that most other people know where it is but not because of anything to do with skiing, so not quite sure where you were going there.
I think you brought in Kitwe as it was somewhere you knew having been there.
I have not, and had not heard of it. I have not been to Gothenburg but have been well aware of its existence since I was about 7 or 8 I would imagine.
I dont think you need to be aware of somewhere just by having been there, was kind of my earlier point.

This all started as it was where Stewart was visiting, and had nothing to do with Africa, but it made for an interesting journey.

As for beer prices, I have not come across anything as high as Stewart encountered in Gothenburg last week, although I have heard of horrendous prices ITRO 20 euros a beer in some French resorts, especially over new year.

That, IMO, is nothing short of scandalous and taking advantage.

I think they are expensive

Cheers MFC, you are the first person to answer the question.

End of thread. Admin, please delete. Too much wibble.

Stewart Dowling wrote:Cheers MFC, you are the first person to answer the question.

End of thread.

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