The winter season draws to a close! Since returning from our ski tour in Switzerland, it seems that Spring has rushed towards us and Summer is already approaching. Just a couple of weeks ago we were shivering in icy winds and cold at the top of the Petit St Bernard Pass; today we have been …
A week of two halves! Last week we headed across to Switzerland for a ski tour based around the Arolla region and the mountains bordering the Rhone valley. Our friends David, Martin and Nick joined us, as did Dave (pictured) our guide – a safe pair of hands who has been guiding us expertly on …
Back in the Tarentaise, and there is more than a hint of Spring in the air. We’ve been delighted to be joined by our friends Gary and Kristine for a few days, and also slightly surprised to find that Gary had brought along an uninvited guest – Basil the Brussel sprout! If that sounds strange, …
A change of scenery… The first full week of March means only one thing – the boys’ off-piste week! Organised by our friend David, five of us (me, David, Martin, Chris and Nick) set off for a week’s off-piste skiing in Andermatt ably guided by Dave, a long-established Chamonix mountain guide who has skied with …
Back to skiing! At the very end of January the weather finally broke, with nearly a foot of fresh snow falling across the mountains. Our friend David was out, staying in the adjacent village of La Masure, and on Tuesday we joined them for a day in Ste Foy. Conditions were perfect: fresh snow and …
After the excesses of the pre-Christmas week, things have settled down and we have had a few quiet weeks. My sister, Lucy, and her family – Wilton, Alice and James, spent the Christmas week in a chalet in Saint Martin de Belleville – a satellite village at the foot of the Three Valleys ski resort, …
https://youtu.be/Nc7EIWYtPnM Fantastic early snowfalls and good weather bode well; rising Covid cases and border restrictions bode less well… Thankfully, the traditional pre-Christmas trip went ahead, and was a top week! We met friends in Val d’Isère, staying there for a week at YSE’s chalet Chardons, and enjoying beautiful piste conditions, plus the inevitable excess of …
Just like the old days! In April earlier this year we were skinning up the slopes of La Rosière to enjoy empty powder fields on the descent, and today we went back, ahead of the official opening of the season, to do the same. Plenty of snow has fallen over the last week, so we …
In the nick of time… snow hits the Alps, starting on Friday, just a day before the official opening of the season in Val d-Isère on the 27th of November. The snow has transformed the resort, and indeed, the whole area. Where we had been enjoying Autumn walks, now snow is everywhere, and winter has …
Time seems to fly here in Sardinia: another week and a half gone, and only a short while before our sailing season ends and we return to the UK. Fortunately, Sardinia continues to delight us. Leaving Cagliari, we have been travelling anti-clockwise around Sardinia, heading for the archipelago of La Maddalena on the northeastern corner. …