J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by AllyG

I have had problems with piste maps in France and Austria. It is something that really annoys me. Apparently it is the lift companies that draw the maps, and even though everyone knows the maps are wrong, they don't get corrected.

How about a world wide campaign to get the maps corrected?

Sometimes, I think they can even be dangerous, like when they show a blue and you're half way down it, and it seems to turn into a black, or red at least.

My impression, from only a few holidays, is that blues are easier in Austria than in France.

The transfer to Courchevel is very short if you go by train.

I hope you find what you're looking for,

Ally

I bought my last car on the internet as well, 3 years ago, because it was about £1500 cheaper than anything I could buy locally. It was an ex demonstration car, from a dealer in Newport Cardiff and I had to travel about 110 miles to get it - but I was lucky, a friend gave me a lift.

If you buy the train tickets early you should be able to get them half price, I got our train tickets to Scotland half price.

Good luck with the car Pablo - I hope it turns out to be a good buy.

Ally

Well,
Ian I'm hoping that Courchevel 1550 won't cost any more than Val Thorens, as long as we only eat in our apartment and don't go bowling or anything, and only do window shopping.

The apartment is cheap enough, the ski lessons are a bit more expensive, and of course the 3 valley pass is exactly the same as in VT.

Back to work now - cleaning the floor tiles with acid cleaner - less than 2 weeks to go now before the holidaymakers arrive in our newly prepared holiday cottage and masses of work still to do.

Ally

All I had was 7 days in Val Thorens at Feb half-term, ski-ing about 5 hours per day, and a few days on dry ski slopes - Pembrey and Milton Keynes.

And I will have another couple of days on the dry ski slope at Manchester in June.

Pretty poor - but I have work, a daughter doing GCSE's, and restricted amounts of money.

Next year I will also only get 7 days, but in Courchevel 1550 this time.

Ally

Thanks for the great photos Bandit, and at least I know now what to do with my helmet at lunch - put it on the table :lol:

Ally

Dustyfog,
Were you paying the instructors to look after your kid at lunch time? I know they do that sometimes with young children, and I would have thought if that was the case they should have been keeping an eye on your son, especially if he is only 6.

I thought what happened to my friend's kid was truly awful as well, and I thought she should have put a complaint in, but she didn't. The problem started because the instructor didn't check how many kids he still had in his class after the slalom race, because some of them went off with their parents.

As you probably know by now, I have been farming for many years, and it is standard protocol to check the numbers of cattle/sheep etc. when moving them from one field to another, because you never know what might have happened to one of them.

Once, I was bringing the cows in for milking, and I was counting them in, and I noticed one was missing, and I went to look for her. I found her lying in the field, on a piece of barbed wire which had punctured one of the blood vessels in her udder. In spite of the fact that we got the vet, she still bled to death. But at least I had noticed she was missing. On other occasions I have gone back to look for one, and been able to save it because it was something less fatal like milk fever, or grass staggers, which we could treat.

One would expect ski instructors to at least give their pupils the same degree of care that I used to give to our cattle, and notice when one is missing. I have found that instructors are generally very good about this, but not always, and I think sometimes they forget that to us, reared far away from the ski slopes, the mountains can be very frightening at times, especially when we are lost.

Ally

Hey, I can see them now :idea:

Thanks very much - they're great photos!

Ally

I still can't open the photos. I just get a message saying 'forbidden'. What have I done wrong now? (More axe-men lurking somewhere after my head again?) :lol:

Ally