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Category Archives: Summer Season
Four wheels good, two wheels better
The quest for sensible interseason exercise options continues apace, though with the summer opening of the outdoor pools and a 90 minute lunchbreak the onset of morbid obesity is fended off for the time being. Cycling has been up for … Continue reading
And the winners are …. !
Summer seems to have given up the ghost early this year, what with snow down to 2600m and a persistent north wind which necessitates the wearing of winter boots and a vest (in addition to other items of clothing, obviously). … Continue reading
Sitting in a hut for a living – summer in the Alps
My move from Marché U into lift ticket sales was generally seen by most of my acquaintance as a sign that I was going up in the world. I’m not entirely sure why, since both jobs are that of caissiere … Continue reading
Amateur anthropology and Alpine tribes
As peak season hoves into view, most of our regulars have now arrived and resort has gone from a ghost town of well under 2000 inhabitants to a bustling metropolis with a cosmopolitan flavour. (Well, all right, I exaggerate – … Continue reading
We had to make our own entertainment in them days …
Along with the influx of brain impaired tourists, loonies in lycra and people apparently unaware that roads may occasionally be used by motor vehicles, summer brings us the tourist office’s animation programme, most of which takes place up and down … Continue reading
But trust me on the sunscreen…
The meteorological pendulum having swung the other way, we are now embroiled (or possibly just broiled) in a heatwave. Temperatures in darkest Burgundy are forecast to reach 38°C over the weekend, which may prove something of a culture shock to … Continue reading
Serious Saturday morning sense of humour failure
Right, that’s enough. Yes I know this is a tourist area and we need to be welcoming to all of our seasonal visitors, without whom the place would be a ghost town inhabited exclusively by a dozen gibbering old crocks … Continue reading
What ski resort? It’s all about the mud … and the naked ladies.
And there you all were, thinking of 2Alpes as a major international snowports resort with some of the best summer glacier skiing Europe can offer and a snowpark which attracts riders from all over the world. How you could have … Continue reading
Road closed due to escaped lunatics.
The weekend rolls around again and as is usual in the Oisans in summer nobody can go anywhere because the roads are infested with drug-addled obsessives on overpriced pushbikes. Really, how am I supposed to get out to the garden … Continue reading
Invasion of the Cloggies
Many moons ago, I once suggested to a Dutch colleague that the reason half the population of Holland seemed to be on the move throughout Europe regardless of the time of year was that the country was physically too small … Continue reading
