J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by AllyG

Thanks TC,
We are planning on keeping well away from cafes, and eating in our apartment. I think a lot of French shops shut at lunchtime. They seem to like 2 hour lunch breaks. But they open until quite late at night - the huit a huit supermarket chain seems to do what it says and stays open until 8 p.m. apart from lunch time. I will make sure I do my shopping ahead of time.

Ally

We only shower once a day, on ski-ing holidays. I shower in the morning (because I get up early) and my daughter showers after ski-ing when we come back in, because she doesn't like getting up early.

I hate showers, and once a day is quite enough, thank you. I think you should leave poor Nelly alone.

I nearly got knocked out by the smell in the ski locker room once, from a snow boarder's socks. I shouldn't think he'd washed them all holiday.

Ally

Right,
I've checked the whole folder now, and there aren't any embarassing photos of me in it, thank goodness,because it's my daughter's facebook photos (she put it up - she knows you're looking at it), and she deleted all the ones of me, because her friends wouldn't be interested in her mother.

The chair with the broken leg outside the United Nations building is apparently meant to represent the damage done to human limbs by land mines. And the crevasse in the green glacial ice is right next to the black run, which looks more impressive from there than in my mini-video.

The photo of the inside of the funicular is pretty good I reckon.

Ally

Oh, thanks Nelly,
I hope there aren't any there that are too embarassing! You must be able to see the whole folder. Can you see that one of the poor Japanese skier loading his things into the coach with his clothes all hanging down? I told you they got changed in the funicular.

Ally

Lovely photo,

Ally

I'm not too sure how facebook works - can anyone see this photo?

It's a photo of Tignes last Thursday, by the bottom of the funicular, without any snow anywhere.

I'm glad there is snow there now, but pleased we had the sunshine, even if we had to put up with the ice.

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?page=2&aid=335652&id=745360054#/photo.php?pid=9456641&id=745360054

Ally

I don't know Bandit, it might be more interesting if they forget to put their clothes on :lol:

I'm more worried about whoever it was who was going to walk out on to the snowy balcony in bare feet.

Ally

Bandit,
I called it 'ski touring' because I thought that was the best description of it. I can see I have made a serious error! Sorry :oops:. What esf 1550 call it, is 'ski pleasure' which I thought was a bit of a ridiculous title, because surely all recreational ski-ing is for pleasure?

This is what they say:

http://www.ski-school-courchevel.co.uk/ski-school-courchevel/ski-adultes/coaching-courses

I realize the slalom may be a bit beyond me, but I would like to have a go. They say I can try it for a morning, and if it's too difficult for me I will do something else. I told them I was a bit old for it - 48 - because I thought they might put me with a bunch of super-fit 18 year old boys who would totally shame me.

I am aiming to be able to ski in and out of (through?) the gates carefully without falling over, and I don't intend to try and beat the world speed record on this.

I have read quite a bit about the 'intermediate plateau' that most people get stuck on, and I'd like to push myself past this. I have to admit I was quite pleased, in a smug kind of way, last week at Tignes, when our instructor tried to be polite and let a French lady down the icy red slope ahead of us, and she said 'La glace' and wouldn't leave the edge of the piste. And my daughter and I quite happily zoomed past her and on to the ice.

Thanks for the tip about the helmet. I hadn't thought of that.

And, back to the subject of this thread - the cost of our ski-ing holiday. The apartment is costing 1000 euros (about £943 at 1.06) for 3 people, and the train costs £300 each, I can't remember what the transfer bus is - around 20 euros each I think. Lift pass, ski and boot hire and full day lessons for me totals £462. So my personal total is about £1100. But I will have to pay for my daughter as well, so I will have to pay about £2200. Plus of course those little extras one forgets about until you look at the bank statement. The food I don't count, because I would be shopping and eating at home, even though it costs a bit more in mountain supermarkets.

I think, maybe, as others have said, it's better just to pay up and not think about it. I know I can afford it, it's not going to bankrupt me, so I'm not going to think about it any more.

I have been very good today - I have been shopping in Lidl, not Tesco, and if I keep doing that I will save quite a bit of money.


Congratulations everyone who managed to find a super cheap holiday. Unfortunately we have to go during Feb half-term, the most expensive week of the entire year.

Ally