Ep 41 "Why would you go to TIGNES ?"

Good morning Val d’Isere

Whole day of Sunshine

And temperatures

Hitting a whopping sixteen degrees.

The colours here are

BEAUTIFUL at the moment…

The pompiers

Were busy again

This time a team in Bourg St Maurice

On Thursday morning

A 48 year old lady

was

paragliding

Fell twenty metres

landed in a stream

Seriously injured…

If you are heading to

London’s Ski Skimming event today…..

GOOD LUCK !

I noticed that the sign up form

Includes that you have to be a

Black run level skier

And you must sign a waiver….

I was interested

That it didn’t seem to ask you

If you could swim…

Like a bit of optimism !

I would take dry clothes

JUST in case….

Do send me a report

And photos…..

Even a video or two…..

Do you have a business idea ?

Fancy yourself as an entrepreneur ?

Relish the thought of

French

Paperwork….

Why not nip to Bourg on Tuesday

Where there is a free

Session

Sharing what to do

And

 How to do it.

You do need to sign up

I have put the link in the description of this episode.

And

OF COURSE

In the calendar page on the website.

I need to remind you of more rules

In previous episodes I covered

ITALY………..

Helmets

Insurance

Safety equipment off piste

No eating on lifts

Blood-alcohol to the same limit
as for driving

IS Tolerated but

Drugs are a complete

NO no

France…..

Not a FORMAL
no alcohol on the snow rule

BUT

If you injure other people while drunk

For instance

Crashing into them

Or

Causing an avalanche….

You can be fined

Fifteen thousand euros

Or

Spend a year in a French prison

Did you know that a
Nationwide smoking ban

Started in France on the

First of July

NO SMOKING in nearly all

Outdoor public spaces

Including sports venues…..

Les Gets banned smoking 3 years ago

After

One cleanup

Collected three thousand cigarette butts……

Running your lungs is

ONE THING

But just dropping the butts………….

SERIOUSLY

Anyway

The no smoking ban is likely to be enforced

Across all ski resorts.

HURRAY !

Can you tell I am not a

smoke fan !

FINALLY

In Parts of Austria

Just wearing ski boots

Between eight pm

And six am

Could cost you

Two thousand euros….

Are you a Ski Club of Great Britain Member ?

If not

Why not ????

They always have lots going on in Val !

Anway

If you are

Part of your membership fee

Will be going to

Team GBs world cup slalom racer

Twenty nine year old Laurie Taylor

He is currently

Thirty fourth in the world

His first race is in Finland on 15^th November…

And

We will be screaming for him

In the Olympics !

Very sad to hear that another athlete

British bobsleigh Winter Olympic medal

Hopeful

Arran Gulliver

Has been banned for two years

After he failed a test.

The substance detected can improve performance

by increasing lean muscle growth and

improving strength.

Arran hasn’t appealed

But says it was not intentional….

Some people here

Would never DREAM of going from Val to Tignes..

And buy the pass that only covers Val

Why would you go THERE

One local asked me…..

I love Tignes….

Not AS MUCH as Val, but love it all the same…

So happy to share some Tignes news….

Their season should open

On the twenty second of November

So

A week before us

New in Tignes this year

A six-seater chairlift on the Aiguille percee

You know

The mountain with the hole in it….

The eye of the needle

An electric e-buggy circuit…..

Not saying they COPIED US

But ours opened

On the bottom of the Face

On the roof of the swimming pool

LAST year…

And for the hungry

Looking for good food

The Bouvier family

Of Michelin star fame

Are opening a

Two hundred and fifty square metre

Brasserie

In Tignes le Lac

Breakfast to dinner

Ski in

Ski out

Terrace overlooking the lake

Dates for your diary

And my calendar page…

The Winter Fest

From 11th to thirteenth January

Pop up art galleries

Snowboarding films

Competitions

Skateboarding dems

Mountain photography masterclass…..

PLUS

Kit tests….

Sounds as though worth planning your holiday around….

So

Todays celebration ….

My top vote from  eight

UN international Day of the Girl Child !

The Uk are celebrating

National album day…

Music rather than photos…

All those years of

British pop-culture…

The creativity of

The covers…

A download

Isn’t quite the same……..

Must dash

Soooo much to do……..

Will be back tomorrow.