Ep 40 Fabulous Firemen and Sun against SAD.

Good Morning Val d’Isère !

Here we go again

A day of full sunshine !

Good news from Tibet

All the trekkers are safely down.

Millions of thanks to the rescue services.

The story is that it wasn’t ACTUALLY Everest,

though was very close.

And there were a lot of people and snow.

Impressive they all got home.

news from

Those well-known ski resorts

Luton

and

London

NEXT weekend

InPiste are opening the UK’s most

Advanced indoor snowsport training centre

In Luton…..
just a short hop and a skip from London..

Rolling slope

Carving simulators…

It even has an Apres zone…..

They KNOW how important THAT is…

Meanwhile in

CHISWICK

Skieasy at Dukes Meadow

encourages you

to get fit

for the start of our season

They have special

Weekday lesson packages.

AND a café

And a bar

I told you about the firemen

Heaving up a bouquetin

saving 5 cows.

And putting out fires.

One band of pompiers

Combined those skills

And rescued a huge St Bernard

From the top of a burning house….

Not in Val… but it was a story with a happy ending !

Meanwhile

Grenoble pompiers had a huge rescue…..

Involving its telecabines……….

The rescuers were climbing high

Suspended from the cables

Lowering people down from the

Broken bubbles…

LUCKILY

Just a practice exercise…

This time….

tomorrow

There is a clearance sale at the

Maison des Artisans

In Seez

Followed by a concert

The watercolour artist Jean Loup Benoit

Will be there

Selling his work during the day

And playing

Drums

In the evening…..

There is ALSO

A

Tombola….

Sunday

the new post

Brexit

EU Border changes start

Obviously

Not clear how chaotic this will be…

While they take everyone’s

Photo

And

Fingerprints

TRIPLE check your passport is valid….

Was it Issued within the last TEN years

And

Is it valid for at least

Three months

After you plan to return to the UK.

Worth having documents ready proving you have

Accommodation

Enough money

And

A return ticket

It is probably easier to have these printed out…

If your phone loses power….

You have a problem…….

Also….. be extra vigilant at

Counting your days……….

Once it is all recorded electronically

It will be much harder

To mumble fumble through

1 extra day

And they WILL know…

Sort of an extension of

ME TOO

A group of former ski champions

Have created

Piste Libre

With the aim to

Protect athletes

From harassment

Abuse

Or discrimination

An independent space

Where psychologists

and lawyers

listen

And act

You can support Piste libre

By becoming a member

Or making a donation.

The link is in the description of this episode.

OR

On the website…www.pistelibre.com

Olympic news…

There is a good chance that

The Winter Olympics

Here in the French Alps in 20 30

Will have two new sports

Cross country running

And

Cyclocross……

Which is a mixture of road cycling

Mountain biking

And steeplechase….

Are they HOPING it is not a

Heavy snow year ??

Can’t imagine

Cycling through

Snow drifts

Would be much fun…

For next Februarys Olympics

Italy is calling for a

Global ceasefire…

This was a tradition in the

Ancient games in Greece

Warring factions

Put down their arms

So athletes could travel

Safely to and from ancient Olympia……..

When I heard the UK were celebrating PORRIDGE DAY today my hands went up in despair……..

Then I read that is it to raise funds for the

Scottish charity

Mary’s meals

Which helps starving children in developing countries.

That IS worthwhile………

It is also

World Mental Health Day

Sadly

acknowledging the problems

Doesn’t magically produce

Enough people to treat them….

At least the

Bright light

here in winter

Staves off S A D

Am off to enjoy the Autumn sunshine

See you tomorrow.