Messages posted by : AllyG
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Tino,
It sounds fabulous! I wish I could just scoot off like that to a ski resort whenever I felt like it. As long as you can afford the time, and the money, what's the problem? Have a great time, Ally |
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Tino,
You mean, you've booked to go to Zermatt this Friday? How long are you going for? Ally |
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Darrylhuk,
I agree that the Easyjet luggage restrictions are a bit annoying. My daughter got told off for carrying a hand bag and an item of hand luggage -but she solved the problem by temporarily putting her hand bag in her hand luggage. We hire our boots and skis in resort so we've never been over the baggage allowance, and usually now we go by train, where they don't weigh your luggage. I would have thought you could keep your own luggage weight down, by following the excellent suggestions already posted on here, and if your wife insists on packing so much stuff that her luggage goes over weight then I think she should pay the excess baggage charge herself ). Presumably, to her, it would be worth the extra money. We all enjoy our holidays in different ways and having a lot of luggage may well be an integral part of her holiday. Ally |
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Tony,
That's odd - I thought 'twat' meant something quite different :lol: Ally |
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Manston,
I agree with Tony and Ian, you really must get some more lessons. There is always more to learn. I have had 5 weeks of ski-ing as an adult, and I'm still having lessons. I know they're expensive, but I think they're well worth it, and they make it more fun if you ski in a group, because you can all have a good laugh together. One of the problems with teaching yourself to ski, is that you pick up bad habits and they can be very difficult to unlearn, which may mean that you reach a certain point in your ski-ing ability and then you can't progress any further. Last year, we had a man in our ski class (upper intermediate) who was convinced he should have been in the advanced class. His ski-ing was really terrible, and he looked awful, although none of us told him. He thought, because he could get down a black run that he was a great skier. But when conditions got difficult, after a heavy fall of snow, he was hopeless. And, another thing to consider, is the safety of other people using the slopes. Someone last year was ski-ing above me on the piste, lost control, and came hurtling down the slope and very nearly collided with me. In lessons you learn to ski slowly and under control on even the hardest slopes. It is very frightening when someone above you loses control. So, have fun, but please have some more lessons. Ally |
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I don't know about a book Tony, you're more likely to need something sharp to prod the people who try and trample you in the queues.
Ally |
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Lucky you, Snowb4ndit,
You could even move to Scotland for the winter ... Ally |
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Tony,
I think you deserve a *Hug* after I grilled you about Wales. Pablo, I'm sorry the subject of how to get to Scotland has been done to death already. Perhaps you could tell me, which would be the best way for me to get there and go ski-ing at one of the resorts, from here? I mean, really, I want to know. Ally |
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