J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by ise

bandit wrote:Mike3000 For info. GVA airport. As Schengen is now being implemented there, all passports for non-Schengen arrivals (ie UK) are now being er....scrutinised, carefully :-) Passport Control is currently in one of the tunnels connecting the island gates with the main terminal. Not sure if it will stay there, but it's pretty grim at the moment with queues down the tunnel and the travelators switched off.
Never mind, once you get through that, they've opened a Burger King :lol:

I've not noticed any extra scrutiny but it's all new so it might be changing day to day. I've Swiss id which I could probably travel on and not use a UK passport.

I can't see why it would lead to more queues, there's physically more checkpoints now and even if staffing levels remained the same I can't see why they would be slower to process. In fact, I reckon getting off a UK flight it ought to be quicker, you're not going to queue with people from a flight from Somalia or somewhere.

which Swiss supermarket did you look at though? some are very expensive. By and large, it's a not a competitive sector though in Switzerland, two chains dominate and have driven off most foreign competition so far. The recent arrival of Aldi and Lidl may shake it up though.

Ian Wickham wrote: the same thing applies with swiss supermarkets on average I found the one I visited in Sion approximately 10 % higher than Uk.

that's going to rather depend on the actual supermarket you visit as well. Even then, I can't compare the prices because I can't work out a way to correct for quality particularly with meat.

Ian Wickham wrote:

Pablo Escobar wrote: I have to say I found Switzerland no more expensive than France :roll:

I wonder if low season would have something to do with the lower prices.... :shock:

In Adelboden 21 Swiss for Spag bol the exchange rate was 1.58 = £13.29

In LGb 10 Euro for Spag bol the exchange rate was 1.06.............= £9.43

Total difference between Switzerland and France for Spag bol.......= £3.86

Now I call that more expensive than France :wink: :wink:

That's more than I would pay for spaghetti bolognese in Switzerland so it depends where you are. Last time I was in France the food was disgraceful regardless of cost as well, a chef serving it up here would be expected to fall on one of his kitchen knifes if he had the cheek to pass off that sort of rubbish. The time before I got food poisoning for the first and only time and I'm pretty well travelled :lol:

I've never seen anywhere where prices for food are lower in low season but it might happen somewhere.

A lot of Swiss food is fairly plain though, there's a general feeling that the quality of the ingredients is high enough not to need some fancy sauce and it's a matter of pride for most restaurants to use local ingredients.

AllyG wrote:Ise,
Are you making jokes about 'Pride and Prejudice'? It's my favourite Jane Austen.

Ally

absolutely my favourite Jane Austen as well :lol:

Bennett, of the Hertfordshire Bennett family, was one of the first people to systematically study ski movement,,,, and in his seminal book "my little skiiy weey booky wooky" famously observed, "it's a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune can quickly lose it skiing"

AllyG wrote:Instead of a quiz, we could do an opinion poll, with a certain result so that there are no arguments afterwards.

:lol:

I'd expect that would be the same, the cheerleaders blithely voting away assuming anyone that thought "oh, god, not again" but was too polite to say it was just as eager :D or someone did say "oh, god, not again" they'd be immediately lynched :lol: which is the way of lynch mobs of course, while half a dozen are saddling up the rest of the village is shuffling around embarrassed muttering "I've a good mind to say something" :lol: :lol:


PS, for your question, personally clean wins over anything for me :D where are these places btw?

bandit wrote:
*Apologies to all Gordon Bennetts everywhere

Gordon Bennett of course being a renowned extreme skier from the golden era of extreme skiing (a Wednesday afternoon in August 1989) who found fame after an on-sight descent of the third floor staircase at the Covent Garden Snow and Rock, notoriety followed as witnesses claimed he'd rested on a banister near the top of the second flight of stairs and, a broken man, Gordon is to this day a toilet cleaner in Andorra.