C'est La Fin de la Saison (As We Know It)
This could be my final post from Tignes. As I write we have our car booked which we pick up Saturday afternoon from Albertville ready for the drive back on Monday. The Don has very kindly offered to meet us in Calais and take us back to the UK in the Walk-a-bus.
What’s Left?
The hopes are to get a couple of hours in in the morning, we’ve had more snow Friday but I have to be on the bus later in order to get the train to Albertville to get the car. We’re planning on having an end-of-season blow out tonight which, effectively, rules out anything on Sunday! We’re on the road by 6am Monday.
The end of season parties have continued with the most eagerly anticipated taking place last Wednesday. It was not a Guy Wednesday as we know it, largely thanks to Guy being on antibiotics for some end of season disease he had picked up. It was Jack’s birthday and I started off by playing Train To Albertville on the radio for him. We had a bit of a board thanks to the never-ending great snow and lunch at Le Brasero. It all went off from there!
Loop Bar gained permission from the Mayor to have their Après session on their terrace – it wasn’t one to be missed as the excellent Bring Your Sisters were in town for their final gig & Loop’s ‘unofficial’ closing party.
For the first time this season a scheduled outdoor Après band could take place without being moved indoors because of the cold/snow. It wasn’t Bring Your Sisters as we know them, they had had a stupidly heavy night in Meribel the night before and the lead singer, Rich, had to drop out. They replaced him with Gallie from Monday Après fame. The combination of the band, the sun and a terrace full of drinking seasonaires was a winner:
We powered on through and drank Loop dry of vodka & gin. The Sisters were on form and up for a blow out, they played classics such as ‘REM – It’s The End Of The Season As We Know It’ and then went crazy, here’s a pic of Stevie setting his keyboard on fire…
All in all, fantastic way to spend our last Wednesday in Tignes, so often the focal point of the week!
As for the future… Pezza & I will be heading to Meribel in the first week of December 2009 ready for me to start the radio (I had my leaving lunch yesterday – it was like having a proper job!). We have loads of plans for the summer that will take us travelling; we start with Yvonne & Ste’s wedding in Cyprus in August. We have also booked to go around Thailand for a couple of months – no hard and fast plans, but the flights are booked and this time we’re going to do it properly armed with nothing else than a few clothes, a camera & the Lonely Planet guide and see where we end up. We are also flirting with the idea of a week or so driving through the south of France, possibly taking in Tignes and Biarritz with a few of the guys from down here.
That’s plenty to keep the blog going for another year or so, during the quieter times I may do some feature posts of my favourite photos or places I’ve been to prior to September 2007 when I started the blog up.
See you in the UK!
Andy
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