Andy's Blog - Gone Further

It’s about time I had another Mountain post. I was tempted to go for Whistler but with the Tour de France passing through Bourg St Maurice this week I opted for this view down the Isère valley from the Solaise chairlift in Val d’Isère. Today the Tour started from just a few miles [...]

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. [...]

A quick one today! The final paragraph of the last post I mentioned that it was snowing, it turned out to be a big dump.

This was unfortunate as it meant we had to dust off all of our gear and head out onto the mountain for, what we thought at the time, would be [...]

It’s nearly over. We have under two weeks until we leave Tignes, it has been our home for five months and we have loved every minute of it. The good thing about the season ending is that you don’t feel you are leaving anything amazing, the snow is melting, people are leaving and [...]

Since the last blog not a great deal has happened; sure, we’ve had the occasional Guy Wednesday (Including a GW on a Tuesday!) and the skiing has been great but there’s nothing that has happened this week that you haven’t read several times over in my fifteen Tignes blogs so far; except, perhaps, Karen causing [...]

March in ski resorts is always fun; before this season every time I had been to the Alps since the February Half-Term school trips have been in March and they’ve always been boozy affairs; the families have gone and the boozers are arriving!
On top of that the locals here are beginning to realise there’s other [...]

A couple of Mondays have passed with no blog. It’s been the usual combination of laziness & alcohol I’m afraid but with so much coming up it’s necessary to catch up.
I left you on 6 October with stories of wedding & Concorde, the next day was Karen’s birthday and I surprised her with a [...]

Again, it’s been a couple of weeks. It seems that I’m just too damn lazy, I will try harder. Promise.
The first Blogworthy thing is our trip to the south of France in sunny Nice. We decided to get away for a weekend for our anniversary and after a quick scout on Sleazyjet [...]

I’m typing this on my phone so I’ll keep it brief.
Basically I’m in Alpe d’Huez with Stuoobs and Easty, conditions are perfect and we’ve enjoyed a day of fresh powder and blue skies.
The usual situation has happened in that we’ve commandered an Irish bar and been mostly drunk. Last night saw me djing with Stu [...]