Messages posted by : AllyG
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Kilo,
My older daughter went to Geilo in Norway, as a complete beginner, with her school and had a great time and became a good skier. But it was expensive, and about 10 years ago. Ally |
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Hi Bandit,
Thanks for your research. That is certainly very curious. One can reach both the Center Parcs' through the same website, centerparcs.com. Apparently the Center Parcs brand is jointly owned by Center Parcs UK and Center Parcs Europe, although as you say apart from that they are now separately owned companies. How surprising :shock: I have never been to Center Parcs, either here or abroad, but I have stayed in a P&V apartment in France, and I thought it was very good value for the money. Ally |
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As I pointed out before, P&V also own Center Parcs, and I recently discovered that they do time shares with the Maeva brand.
Ally |
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Well,
I have been telling everyone to try and use the train and not fly to their ski resorts ..... Ally |
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Obergurgl
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I would think even a sat nav system wouldn't be totally accurate if you were going up and down hills (or mountains) because the mapping must be only 2-D.
So I rather think that means you'd be going faster than your sat nav system said, in the mountains, because you'd be travelling a greater distance, something like the hypotenuse on a triangle, and speed equals distance over time. But I've always been very bad at maths so I'd have to think about it. I have noticed that my new Tom Tom says I'm going about 2 mph slower than I'd estimate using my speedo, on the flat. And I have a newish car (4 years old). Ally |
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Ian,
I'm afraid that doesn't make sense, unless you're assuming that YOUR speedo is the only one that's not inaccurate at all. I asked our local police force - Dyfed Powys Police - about their tolerances on speeding, and they said their cameras are set to 10% plus 2 mph, but an individual policeman with a 'gun' can book you for doing only 2 mph over the limit, and that different police forces have different tolerances, so you'd have to know what these were for each area, and where the boundaries were. I am very careful not to speed, ever, and the only time I do it is when I've accidentally got confused because the limits keep changing on the same piece of road, but I've never been caught - yet! Ally |
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Karen,
That must have been very annoying. I've pre-booked skis 3 times on the internet (with Intersport) and each time when I got to the resort they didn't have the details about my weight and height, which was very annoying as I can never remember how much I weigh in Kg. But the skis and boots were fine when I got them, and of the correct standard. The first ski shop I went to, in Zell am See, had weighing scales and a height measurer. Why don't they all? Ally |
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