A chalet girl has many...I would like to voice my Chalet girl pet hates. As many of us chalet bitches in Courchevel find on a daily basis, not every experience is happy... basically if one's clients were a bunch of farmyard animals it would be a less caotic experience! Some of them are Pigs, I tell you. Pigs! There are many things which conspire to irk the chalet girl. He
After last weeks destruction of Emma knee ligaments it begs the question who would try and upstage her. Apparently Jamie(Ski Total) not only grabbed the baton but ran into the distance like a Jamaican relay runner. While practicing some snowboarding trick whose name, as a skier, escapes me, his board caught an edge, spinning it around, breaking his ankle. Actually thatÃÂ
Wednesday saw the workers challenge, part of the Natives show love tour, in Meribel. Consisting of both an individual giant slalom and a team slalom. In the individual GS Jamie from Scott Dunn, Ben from Powder white and Jen from the Killimandjaro represented Courchevel 1850 with some performing better than others. Donning her go faster kilt Jen was the first down the cours
For anyone who hasnÃÂt seen BBC SwitchÃÂs The season (lets call them the lucky ones) it follows the very dull love lives of a bunch of spoilt seasonnaires in Val dÃÂIsere. As it was made for Switch, which is aimed at teens, it means it couldnÃÂt contain any vices in any way. No smoking, no drinking, no nudity. Just good wholesome teen relationships. I know, pretty
I donÃÂt know what it is about Ballon Ballai but every time I see seasonnaires sliding around an icerink while waving a broom at a miniature football I cannot fail to smile.This year we had teams from Inghams, Pleasure holidays, Scott Dunn(3), Kalico(3), New Gen(2), Ski Physios to name just a few. This year instead of just a straight knockout system the teams started i
When you see a car in this state you realise how tricky some of the roads are around and between resort. At the moment as there is a freeze thaw going on every day resulting in a lot of ice on and to the side of the roads. The stretch of road in question connects la Tania to Meribel and considering it is connecting two of the best ski resorts in France it resembles somethi
