The Spring Hut to Hut Tour! Conditions at the start were not auspicious! On Sunday the 16th of April Cate and me, with our friends Martin, Nick and Chris, plus our guide Pierre and his partner Nathalie, set off from Le Fornet to reach the Prariond hut above the Maupassant gorge – in dense fog. …
Since Cate’s girl friends left last month we have switched to “training mode” – trying to get a bit fitter ahead of the ski tour we will be doing next week. The weather has been much more unsettled: cold spells, warm spells, sun, rain and snow; and often many of those on the same day! …
The off-piste trip, a regular fixture of the winter season. For over 20 years I have joined David, Martin, Nick, Chris and our guide, Dave, for a week of off-piste skiing. This year we returned to Andermatt. Conditions were tricky, to say the least, with almost no fresh snow having fallen for over a month. …
We need more snow!!! The weather this winter must be unprecedented. There has been no new snowfall for at least a month, with blue sunny skies every day. The slopes are in desperate need of fresh snow – both on and off piste. All the powder has gone, the pistes are icy and the off …
Well… the temperature dropped, the snow fell (lots of it), then the sun came out. The only thing to do was to enjoy the powder! We spent the day in Ste Foy, starting with a couple of warm up runs on the off-piste to the left of the Marquise lift, then heading to the top …
I’m writing this on the 15th of January, on what seems like the first quiet day since we started the season out here. The day after we celebrated Cate’s birthday we waved goodbye to Ros and Godric, and started the long drive back to England. We stopped in the beautiful medieval town of Troyes for …
It’s started, and started with a bang! After three weeks of painting, decorating, DIY, furniture moving and generally getting our house ready, we welcomed our first guests – Martin and Jeavon – on the 9th of December. And, if anything, we seem to be even busier: this time with partying! Fresh snow was falling as …
What a month! We have been so busy – hence the lack of a blog for well over a month. In that time – since leaving our boat in the Leros boatyard – we have been back in England, celebrated a special birthday for Cate, moved home, and arrived in France to find a building …
Another sailing season draws to a close. We returned to Leros marina right at the beginning of October, fully expecting to get out again for a few more days sailing. However, a combination of meltemi winds (will they never stop?!) and a realisation that we had a lot of work to do, meant that we …
The last couple of weeks started gently enough: we were pinned into Paroikia, the port town of Paros, for a whole week whilst we waited for the meltemi winds to calm down. Escaping from the rocking motion on board, we took a bus inland and visited the old town of Lefkes. Lots of beautiful and …