J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by Ian Wickham

ParalyticSkiCrazie wrote:Many years ago we stayed in Baden Baden BC and did exactly the same as Tino! As I remember the Italian was fantastic so things have not changed. We were not staying in a hotel but the campsite - think two man tent and Vauxhall Nova! You had to pay for warm showers and most of the Germans didnt!! Ja das is sehr gut!!!

It is a lovely stop over and if you can stay in a hotel even better! :mrgreen:

Got the big depression now as my last snow fix was on Monday after four days in St Martin so got to start thinking Sailing and Summer Holidays now :wink:

bandit wrote:Thanks for your concern Wickers, I will do my best to cope :D

BTW It's snowing really hard at village level right now, and it's sticking too 8) I expect all the little alpine flowers that had popped up are wishing they'd not bothered!

Just thought I'd share that with you all :D

RoseR wrote:

Ian Wickham wrote:

RoseR wrote:http://www.arenaria.gr/index.php?lng=2&action=5

Hubby has his own business and I work long hours in quite a demanding business for a national Pharmacy chain. Hence why we have booked a relaxing week away in the above villa, cant wait. :lol:

Very nice Rose, the last time I stayed in Lefkas we had an Earthquake :shock: :shock: :shock:

Is it nice there Ian? apart from the earthquakes :lol:

ise wrote:

Ian Wickham wrote:
I have always used the babelfish, when I have translated stuff from French to english, It is not perfect but it is readable.

I've heard that said before. What perplexes me is if the person who says that speaks the other language well enough to judge how readable it is then why do they need to use Bablefish to start with? :lol:

bandit wrote:

Ian Wickham wrote:

bandit wrote:The lifts close Sunday afternoon :(

What are you going to do then take to the skins?.

Take to the Postbus, heading in the general direction of the airport :(

bandit wrote:The lifts close Sunday afternoon :(

ise wrote:

Ian Wickham wrote:
Agreed it is not the perfect translation, and I would not want to translate anything for business using babelfish, but it suffices for a holiday booking.

It really, really doesn't, they produce language that's nearly unreadable and it's always obvious where it's come from. If you can do a greeting and sign-off in the host language that's going to look just fine, forcing someone to decode what ends up as nonsense speak can be irritating.

bandit wrote:

Ian Wickham wrote:

bandit wrote:Cheers Wickers, but I was not planning to eat it, just rip it up a little :twisted: I'll think of you :P

"Rip it up a little" sounds like snowboarder speak to me, Bandit are you on the turn :twisted: :twisted:

I'll have you know that I took snowboard lessons in Scotland and England, and did a tiny bit on the tray in California before deciding I really didn't like it :D

The weather forecast looks promising.. 8)

http://www.j2ski.com/snow_forecast/Switzerland/Grimentz_snow.htm