Ep 58 Vegans don’t thrive in Val.

Good Morning Val d’Isère

Happy Sunny Saturday

And of course

Pinch Punch

1^st of ANOTHER month …….

We are heading back into avalanche season….

Or avoiding avalanche season……

A stark reminder

Of how quick

Large and destructive

They can

Be was a video

Someone shot this week

In Nepal

When

A giant wall of snow and ice

Broke off four thousand metres above

Some trekkers

The avalanche

Ripped through their base camp

Scattering equipment

Tossing the tents……..

Luckily it happened in the day time

So as it approached

And was gaining momentum

The trekkers

RAN

Noone was even injured

Let alone killed.

Earlier this week

Close to Grenoble

A nineteen year old man was found

Unconscious

And cold

In the snow

Nearly dead when the pompiers arrived

Helped by a drone

And sniffer dogs

Thanks to all the people involved

Finding, moving, treating him

He is now doing well.

Another three siblings

Another three Olympic hopes

Alli

Lauren

And

Sam

Are all in the US team…..

3 sisters

3 disciplines

Moguls

Alpine

Ski jumping…..

Mr & Mrs Macuga may have difficult decisions………

If all daughters get through

They could be competing in

Different cities

On the same day.

WHO do they support…….

Mum and Dad say they will have to draw straws………

Tough challenge

But nice one to have !

A while ago I whined about

How different sports

Get different prize money…

Comparing Tennis to Skiing or dangerous, hay guzzling eventing.

There is some good news for

American Olympians….

Thanks to a one hundred million donation

Athletes who make the US Olympic or Paralymic teams

Will receive one hundred thousand dollars when they retire.

It is difficult to believe that many of the

Stars of the Olympics

Live in or near poverty ………

Almost sixty percent earn less than fifty thousand us dollars a year…..

And skiing is an EXPENSIVE SPORT.

The welcome cash isn’t ‘instant’

It will hit their bank accounts

Either 20 years after they retire

Or when they hit 45 …

More Olympics….. more cash….

France takes it’s privacy laws seriously

So it was good to see

Paris Match

Rapped over the knuckles

For printing photos

Of the Wales Family

On a ski holiday last April.

They knew they shouldn’t have done it..

They knew it would boost their circulation..

They maybe underestimated the wrath

Of our future king……..

When are you too old to ski ??

The idea of stopping skiing is

A mystery to me………..

Some say 50…… others 60………

But why would you stop ?
If you get tired………have more breaks……..

If you get cold……….wrap up !

If you are bored…………

Ooh that is a bit spoilt…………

Maybe change resort……

plenty of people in Val

Ski well into their 80’s

Even if it is just to get some air

Mountain top view

And pootle to lunch.

In Colorado

98 year old Tom Brennan

Is still TEACHING

Skiing..

Despite a cancer diagnosis……..

He smiles schusses on

And intends to do so until

He is AT LEAST one hundred

Good on you tom.

Property price news…

Out of 15 places in Savoie

Val is top of the Pops

At 12 and a have thousand

Per metre square…

Courchavel is a close second

Followed by Tignes at just under 9 thousand

GREAT if you are selling

Disaster if you want to buy….

I might add a page for

Odd things to do….

Maybe a more jolly title

Aimed at those that don’t want to ski

ALL DAY

Or would rather poke their eyes out

Than

Ski AT ALL…..

Will start with ….

Donkey riding…….

Between St Foy and Villa Roger……

Book at Killy Sport

Or contact

Guide Pascal directly.

I have put his email and telephone number

In the Episode description.

Pascal.bertres@sfr.fr guide de randonnée indépendant

Killy Sport à Val d'Isère

Tel + 33 6 13 85 64 77

Quite a choice of celebrations …

My top pick

World vegan day….. I do love plant based food…I even have a fancy diploma or two in preparing it….

HOWEVER

If you are vegan

And like to eat out

………I couldn’t honestly recommend Val……….

It is difficult to find a good variety of VEGETARIAN dishes……especially since Benoit moved to Annecy,,,…

take out the cheese……and butter……….

it just doesn’t happen here……..

 can’t even bear the thought of the reaction of a sommelier
if you asked for vegan wine……….

AND yes ….. it is a thing……….

WHAT IS NON VEGAN IN WINE

I hear you scream……

Egg whites

Gelatin, from bones and cartilage

Casein, a milk protein

Isinglass, from fish bladders…..yummy

I would like more vegetarian options …….

Maybe we could start some sort of campaign

Risotto or omelette get pretty boring.

Let alone the boiled vegetables

For every course

EXCEPT dessert

A friend of mine was served

For two weeks……..

We need to

Encourage and cajole the chefs……

Let me know if you agree !

After all that talk

Am off for a bacon butty !

See you on Sunday.