J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by AllyG

When we were ski-ing Meribel at New Year I was really annoyed because we were in the restaurant at the top of the Tougnette 1 and they refused to give me a carafe of tap water, even though I'd bought meals for 3 of us there :evil:

They even had a cutting from a French newspaper stuck up saying that the French law had changed and restaurants are no longer required to provide free water.

So I had to BUY bottles of very expensive water :evil:

I think that was really mean, because water is essential when you're ski-ing, just like it is in the desert, because it's very easy to become dehydrated.

We've started paying our deposits to Bonjour now, so we're definitely going on this J2Ski group holiday to the chalet Bonjour-Bonjour in Tignes Les Brevieres :D

Felthorpe,
If you want to start a general discussion going on possible resorts for a 2014 group holiday, I think it would be fairer to start a new thread, so that everyone else can join in :D

Admin said he'd ban anyone from J2Ski if they posted on this thread unless they were thinking about coming on this (2013) holiday to Tignes Les Brevieres.

Once the summer really gets going we will be flooded out with guests and I will have to work very hard keeping the garden and cottages etc. looking nice for them.

And - maybe I will do a day's ski course on a dry ski slope in Milton Keynes or Hemel Hempstead during the summer :D

It's a pity we have to wait until January 13th before we can go on this holiday. Looking at the photo of that chalet really makes me wish I was back there ski-ing in all that powder :cry:

I have 3 things on my to-do list at the moment for when we do get out there :D

1. Driving a car on the ice track in Les Brevieres.

2. Going through that timed slalom course - the one that Icy said you have to pay your 2 euros at the end or they make you walk back :lol:

3. Ski-ing down the black Sache run from the top of the Aiguille Percee (at 2748m) to Les Brevieres (at 1550m).

Thanks Andy,
It's a good thing Admin isn't charging me by the page :lol:

Here's another picture my daughter took of the chalet Bonjour-Bonjour in the snow on Tuesday:

crispyapplepie wrote:Massive congrats on your hard work organising this ally... I've only just seen this post, haven't had much chance lately to get online with the 1 coming along.....

Have all the places been taken?

Thanks

Hi Crispyapplepie,
We have plenty of space left in the chalet if you'd like to come. I'll send you a pm :D

No, my daughter's not coming with us. She'll be at uni. She's very like my Mum and my husband - who both like taking things to their limits. I'm much more cautious. If I'd been on my own there's no way I'd have skied over to the Val d'Isere glacier on the last day knowing that the mini-bus was leaving at 4 p.m. for Geneva :shock:

But - so far she's never hurt herself, ski-ing or doing anything else. So she's either very lucky or very good at judging how far to push things :lol:

And the only minor injury I got from this holiday was a bruise on my knee from dropping my ski boot on it when I was too tired to get it in the rack :lol: