Nov. 7, 2025

Ep 64 The Grizzly in Tignes

Ep 64 The Grizzly in Tignes
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Ep 64 The Grizzly in Tignes

1. Weather 7th November 25.
2. From Shot put to bobsleigh.
3. Mia Brookes started at Kidsgrove Ski Centre.
4. Easyjet flying to Grenoble.
5. Post Brexit EES… why not get a visa ?
6. Jannik Sinner models Gucci Skiwear.
7. Council Meetings.
8. Bubble rather than chairs in Villa Roger.
9. Tignes car sharing WhatsApp group.
10. Visit the Grizzly in Tignes.

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Special Offers I have Spied....

Shotput champion Adele Nicholl now hoping for a bobsleigh Olympics.....

Kidsgrove Ski Centre. have their annual freestyle competition tomorrow...Snowboard champion Mia Brookes started here, and is now heading for Olympic glory !

Easyjet are now flying from Southend and Birmingham to Grenoble.

More delays for the Post Brexit EES. If you overshoot your 90 days it will be more obvious... fines, bans, deportation....and your travel insurance will be invalid. Why not consider a visa.

Tennis star, and early ski racer, Jannik Sinner models the Gucci outfits you can actually wear while you ski.

Bourg have got the children involved in council meetings !

Villa Roger have replace 2 old chairlifts with a fast bubble.

Help yourself and the planet by joining Tignes car sharing Group.

Today is hug a bear day. Looking forward to a hot chocolate in Tignes' Grizzly this winter !

00:10 - Weather 7th November 25.

00:18 - From Shot put to bobsleigh.

01:03 - Mia Brookes started at Kidsgrove Ski Centre.

01:45 - Easyjet flying to Grenoble.

02:02 - Post Brexit EES… why not get a visa ?

02:58 - Jannik Sinner models Gucci Skiwear.

03:38 - Council Meetings.

04:03 - Bubble rather than chairs in Villa Roger.

04:18 - Tignes car sharing WhatsApp group.

04:27 - Visit the Grizzly in Tignes.

Good Morning Val d’Isère

Cool and cloudy day

With a bit of a breeze…

 

Not content with being British Shotput champion

Adele Nicholl

Fancies a bobsleigh Olympic medal…

 

While a Cardiff Uni sport and exercise science student

COVID hit

So she took to sprinting in a park

Uploaded a video

Which caught the eye of a

British Bobsleigh athlete

Who suggested the sport….

 

Not all plain sailing…

She had to lose 3 stone

 

As a pusher she won Britains

First 2-woman World Cup medal for 13 years.

 

She then decided to be the driver

And added a World Cup silver….

 

She hopes to qualify for both

Monobob

And 2-woman events for

Februarys Olympics

 

Fancy following in the

Spins and flips

Of Mia Brookes ?

Start at the very beginning

Where she started …

Stoke-on-Trent

Kidsgrove Ski Centre.

 

TOMORROW is the 

Oatcake Jam

Their annual freestyle competition

 

All ages

All levels.

 

As you know

Mia

Was the youngest ever snowboard world champion

When she was sixteen.

and

BBC Young Sports Personality of the year in 2023

 

She started at Kidsgrove

And is now heading for an Olympic gold..

 

How far can you go ?

 

When you are planning your flights

From the UK towards Val…

 

 

Another option to

Lyon, Geneva or Chambery…

 

Easyjet are now flying

From both Southend

And Birmingham

To Grenoble…..

 

While on travel

The new post Brexit

Entry Exit System

EES to those in the know

is being slowly rolled out..

Introduced for some on the

12th October

And

Was due to start

For car passengers in Dover

Last weekend….

 

Another delay.

REMEMBER

Once it is up and running

It will be

Immediately

And

Very

Obvious

If you overstay your 90 days….

 

Not only could you be fined

nearly four thousand euros

Deported

Or banned from entering Schengen for up to five years

Your travel insurance will be invalid….

THAT could be expensive…

 

If you do want to come for a long time…

Or will be very close to the 90 days…

Why not

Avoid the stress and get a visa ?

 

Looking for new ski gear ?

Go for       Gucci…..

Their first fully in house skiwear line

ACTUALY Ski wear…

Not just Après…

 Modelled by …….

Tennis star

Italian

Jannik Sinner

 

Gucci elegance

With Gore-Tex

And breathable

3-layer membranes

 

Don’t forget that Jannik

Chose tennis over ski racing

When at 13 he realised that

You can make mistakes in Tennis

And still win

 

You can’t in skiing…….

 

The tennis prize money is also

Better !

 

Considerably better.

 

Council meetings…

Love them or hate them..

I went to my first one yesterday……

 

Down the road in Bourg

They take politics seriously

And start early…

28 children

Elected by their classmates

Had their first meeting

Around the long table

In the council office….

 

They Shared ideas

Which they will study carefully

Over the next year.

 

Have you skied at Villa Roger ?

Are you going to this year ?

You are in for a TREAT

The old chairlifts

Have been replaced by

A fast

10 person bubble….

 

Luxury !

 

If you live or work in Tignes

Why not join the

Car sharing

WhatsApp group ?

 

I have put the link in the

Episode description.

 

Today is hug a bear day

 

TEDDY 

Not a grizzly…..

That wouldn’t go well…

 

looking forward to

Skiing over to Tignes

And having a hot chocolate

Or lunch

At the Grizzly Bar

Near the bottom of the Tufs chairlift

 

Have you ever been there ?

To say the owner is a bear fan

Is an

Understatement…

 

Definitely worth a visit.

 

Back to Teddy bears…..

Teddy was the 26th President of the United States

Theodore Rossevelt

Who spared the life of a bear

On a hunting trip in 1902.

 

I will just hug a doodle

They are loving the snow on the nursery slope

Don’t get to run freely there

When the lifts are open

And skiers are turning and swirling

 

See you in the morning.