3rd March 2001
On Saturday 3rd March we set off to Le Menuires in France for a weeks skiing holiday. The flight wasn't much of a problem and after arriving at Chambery airport we took a two hour bus trip to the resort. Lucy's brother-in-law Darren managed to organise a chalet through a friend at work. It could not of been situated in a better spot. It looks out over the ski slope and is on top of the hill. In order to go skiing all you had to do is go to the equipment room take your gear out of your locker, put it on and head out the side door. Once outside you start skiing as you're on the slope.
Darren and I had never skied before so we decided to take "gimp" ski classes. We had six lessons starting at 9:15 in the morning going until 12:15 in the afternoon. I imagined we would be wearing bibs and practicing our snow plows on the children's runs. The first day seemed to confirm this as that's pretty much all we did. Fortunately on the second day we headed right up the mountain and found ourselves doing blue and red runs. I wouldn't say I'm a great skier, in fact I'd have to say I'm the worst skier to ever hit the slopes, if you need an example of this I ask you to simply click here (Note: if it's too slow for you to watch, or you want to look at it often, try right clicking and selecting "save target as" to save it to your harddrive you can then watch it locally - it's only a 1.3 meg download!).
As you would expect there isn't all that much to say about this holiday, we spent every morning skiing and every evening drinking and/or resting. I think you've had to read enough for one day so I'll leave this now. I'll simply show some photos. I've already started my next update which so far includes a trip to Edinburgh Scotland and Loch Ness, plus a trip to the biggest UK theme park Alton Towers. I'm just waiting some photos from the developers before that goes live, so until then - bye!
The view out the window of our chalet.
Darren and I had never skied before so we decided to take "gimp" ski classes. We had six lessons starting at 9:15 in the morning going until 12:15 in the afternoon. I imagined we would be wearing bibs and practicing our snow plows on the children's runs. The first day seemed to confirm this as that's pretty much all we did. Fortunately on the second day we headed right up the mountain and found ourselves doing blue and red runs. I wouldn't say I'm a great skier, in fact I'd have to say I'm the worst skier to ever hit the slopes, if you need an example of this I ask you to simply click here (Note: if it's too slow for you to watch, or you want to look at it often, try right clicking and selecting "save target as" to save it to your harddrive you can then watch it locally - it's only a 1.3 meg download!).
As you would expect there isn't all that much to say about this holiday, we spent every morning skiing and every evening drinking and/or resting. I think you've had to read enough for one day so I'll leave this now. I'll simply show some photos. I've already started my next update which so far includes a trip to Edinburgh Scotland and Loch Ness, plus a trip to the biggest UK theme park Alton Towers. I'm just waiting some photos from the developers before that goes live, so until then - bye!
The view out the window of our chalet.
 Our chalet is the one at the very back (end of the road). |
 Lucy and I waiting for the bus. |
  Lucy and her sister Clare. |
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