Messages posted by : AllyG
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Ian,
I forgot to say 'Happy Birthday' to little W. I am trying to negotiate a discount price with ESF 1550 for our lessons. I want to have a go through the slalom gates in the morning in English, and then do touring ski-ing in French, for the same price the French pay for all day ski-ing. And my daughter wants to do off piste in the early morning, followed by ski touring, for the same price as full morning ski-ing. I will wait and see what they say. And I will have to try and hire some skis that can do slalom and ski touring. Ally |
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I don't like the first morning much - there's too much anxiety.
What will the instructor be like? Will I find where the lessons are? Will I get chucked out of my group? Will I get lost? How do I get my daughter to eat her breakfast? And, if I haven't already got my skis and boots - will I get them all fitted in time for the lessons? Will my lift pass work? Can I still ski, or have I forgotten? Once I'm sorted, I'm okay and I can relax and enjoy myself. I had one instructor who upset me so much, once, I nearly didn't go to my lessons - only I thought what a waste of money and went anyway. Nelly, no wonder I had to buy a new bed and mattress in our holiday cottage - you haven't been staying here incognito have you? Ally |
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Davidsa2,
That's a totally unbelievably cheap ski holiday! Well done for finding it. I am just about to book skis and boots and lessons for us in Courchevel. They are terribly expensive. 6 days of lessons, 4 hours per day, costs 280 euros. 'Blue' skis and boots cost 70 euros after 25% discount with Intersport, 'Black' skis and boots cost 132 euros after 25 % discount. Lift passes cost 190 euros for Courchevel and 232 euros for 3 valleys. Ally |
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Ian,
The Tom Tom does help, so I'm not taking it back. I'm just trying to say that you can't completely rely on it, especially when you reach your destination post code, because it just dumps you. On our road, for example, the same post code covers 3/4 of a mile. Ally |
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Ian,
It's not the information I put in that's the problem, it's the mapping information that Tom Tom gets from ??? that's the problem. I've tested it out here, and it says a junction is a bend in the road, or vice versa, and as I said it counts exits wrong. What I really need to know when I'm driving, is something clear like 'take the 2nd exit on the roundabout signposted A38'. Ally |
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Well,
I forgot to tell everyone what happened to me when I tried out my new Tom Tom during my drive to Bristol airport for our holiday at Tignes. I have been driving for nearly 30 years, after I passed my driving test first time with only 12 lessons in 3 months. So, I can actually drive pretty well. However, because we live about 50 miles from the nearest motorway I don't get much practice on the motorway. We also live about 60 miles from the nearest city, and I've only ever driven in a city about 10 times. So, I was pretty worried about driving 120 miles or so to Bristol airport. And I bought myself a Tom Tom. The first thing that went wrong was that my daughter asked me to drive to the Cardiff IKEA on the way to Bristol because there was something essential she needed and they wouldn't deliver it. Well, she set the Tom Tom, and I tried to do what it said. Eventually it said we had arrived at our destination, when quite clearly we hadn't, and we were at a small roundabout in the middle of nowhere. However, I have been to IKEA before, with someone else, and I remembered where it was. Then, coming out of IKEA, the signposts quite clearly said M4 one way, and the Tom Tom said a totally different road. So, I went with the signposts, until I realized that I'd end up going down the motorway in the wrong direction. Then I did what Tom Tom said and had to drive all through the suburbs of Cardiff, with no idea where I was going, until we eventually re-joined the M4, going in the right direction. We then got stuck in a traffic jam on the M4 doing about 2 miles an hour for about half an hour (not Tom Tom's fault of course). And, after we'd crossed the Bridge, Tom Tom took a most peculiar route. I have no idea where we went, but we went down several motorways and then across tiny roads, and finally down a tiny single track lane in the pitch dark. At which point Tom Tom said we'd reached our final destination - supposed to be the Holiday Inn at Bristol airport. Which it clearly wasn't. So, I had a look at the map then, and the hotel is supposed to be on the A38. I turned round, went back up the tiny lane, and found, amazingly, the A38, with the hotel on it. So, I think sat nav helps, but you still need a map, especially for the last bit, when you arrive at 'your final destination'. I don't like the way it counts exits on roundabouts, because sometimes you don't know if a minor round counts as an exit or not. In fact, there is a school somewhere near Bristol airport, off a roundabout, and I was wondering if it was our exit, when I saw they had a sign up saying it was a road only to a school, so I should think they must have been fed up with hundreds of lost people following Tom Tom ending up in their school yard. But at least I did get to Bristol (and back). I think I will revert to going on the train for our next holiday. It is much less stressful, and quicker, after allowing for traffic jams and getting lost. Ally |
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Can you put the video up for us?
My 16 year old daughter managed to put up a video on here of me ski-ing by putting it up on Youtube first. It is amazing how clearly it shows all my mistakes! Ally |
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Thanks Neiltoo,
It does look as though they've made the border do a dog leg bend so that you can get to the back of the airport on a French road. I definitely wouldn't fancy hiring a car at Geneva airport and trying to navigate through all that. Ally |
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