J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by AllyG

It looks really lovely, Andyhull, and they're great photos :D

Hi Jon,
I will keep my fingers crossed for you, and well done for having BUPA to pay for it all :D

Hi Sm4sh,
It's very nice to hear from you, and catch up with your news. Congratulations on buying your first house :thumbup:

Let's hope you will be able to afford to go ski-ing next year :D

We got the group ski holiday organized in the end, and we're off to Tignes on the 13th January :D

AllyG wrote:
But the next crucial bit of timing will be getting to Les Boisses in time to ski down to Les Brevieres before it gets dark. According to the website below, sunset in Tignes on Sunday 13th January will be at 17-12, and then it's about a minute later each day. I wonder how 'dark' it is when it's officially sunset?

http://uk.weather.com/climate/sunRiseSunSet-Tignes-600:11?month=1

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I will have a look tonight, and see how dark it is at official sunset time, and see whether I reckon I could still ski :D

This evening here at home I reckoned it would have been too dark to ski at 5 p.m. and that website said it would be sunset in Swansea at 16-49 today.

So I should say they got it about right :thumbup:

We'd better make sure we're safely back in Les Brevieres before 17-12 on Sunday 13th January.

OldAndy wrote:ermmmmm...........
Ally - my toilet thread was slightly tongue in cheek!!
Please don't spend time on this.
Unless, of course, it is helping you avoid commitments.
:thumbup:

In that case let me know and I will provide other researchable needs for you to complete.

Andy - really? I'm quite interested in which of the mountain restaurants charge you to use their toilets, because it really annoys me :evil:

I mean, you have to pay a fortune for a hot chocolate or whatever, and then naturally you need the toilet after that, and you have to pay again :evil:

Here is the list again, of the 9 restaurants we are planning on 'researching' on the first Sunday (not in the order we're going to visit them) - does anyone happen to know/remember whether you have to pay to go to the toilet in any of them?

1. Le Palet - top of the Tichot chair above Val Claret.

2. Le Panoramic - top of the funicular from Val Claret to the Grande Motte glacier.

3. Le Bar de L'Ouillette - at the bottom of the Madeleine piste, on the Solaise above Val d'Isere.

4. The Alpage/Soli - at the top of the Chaudannes lift above Le Lac, and the closest mountain restaurant to les Brevieres.

5. Les Clochetons - at the bottom of the Santons piste, just before you get into the Val d'Isere village.

6. Le Signal - at the top of the Fornet cable car in Val d'Isere.

7. Le Triffolet - lowest restaurant above La Daille, by the OK and Criterium pistes etc.

8. The Edelweiss - on the blue Manguard piste above Le Fornet.

9. La Folie Douce/La Fruitiere - at the top of the cable car up from La Daille.

I suppose once we've checked them out we could also make notes on this, as well as the quality of the food etc.

Toilets are marked on the piste map, but it doesn't say whether you have to pay for them. And what I can't understand, is that some of the restaurants aren't marked as having toilets - but I'm sure they do.

When I was in the Panoramic, by the Grande Motte glacier, in October a couple of years ago you could see that during the main season you would have to pay for the toilets because they had the booth there for someone to sit and collect the money. When I was there they'd just economized by shutting the ladies and making us use the mens, which was slightly embarassing!

They have toilets marked at the top of the 'funival' from La Daille, and at the top and bottom of the 'Olympique' cable car from Val d'Isere. And there are also toilets marked at the bottom of the funicular up to the Grand Motte.

I'm sure there are free toilets in the 'Maison de Tignes' where the tourist information office etc. is in Le Lac.

Andy - how many toilets are you likely to need? :lol:

I usually have the opposite problem - trying to drink enough to stop myself becoming dehydrated!

OldAndy wrote:

AllyG wrote:
I will have a look tonight, and see how dark it is at official sunset time, and see whether I reckon I could still ski :D

Take a torch....

simples.... :roll:

Andy, I did think of that, but I'm sure it's against all the rules - ski-ing in the dark with a torch, and I wouldn't be covered by insurance and I might well be hauled off by the gendarmes as your unofficial 'guide' :shock: