Random Friends, Christmas & Pickled Onion Crisps

Not the best of times to go 15 days without doing a Blog, so I’ll try to keep it brief. I left you on Sunday 14th anticipating a good week, later that night we ran into Hugo from Meribel 1999 fame who was in town for the week with his friend, Martin Jol (ish). This [...]

Tignes: Week Deux

This has been a craking week. I’m not going to spend the next four and a half months saying: The snow’s great and we’re having fun, as I would hope you would assume that much. Wht is great about coming out here for the season is that you can look out of the window in [...]

Tignesage Dirtbags

This blog was written on Saturday – internet sadness has prevented efficient blogging! We’ve discovered this week, the locals don’t pronounce the ‘s’ in ‘Tignes’, making it sound like Teen. That’s that explained. Apologies for the late blogging, I fully expected to have one done a week or so ago after our drive down here [...]

Welcome to Tignes

Ok, here’s the craic: we’ve not got the internet set up in the apartment yet so I rely on the wifi connection in the local. The internet dude is due on 12 December but as he’s French he’ll probably be on strike. I’ll do an unnecessarily comprehensive blog when we’re connected, in the meantime here’s [...]