posted: 16-01-2010
 - Courchevel Enquirer
I would say that the main topic this week is very polarising, even for me. Sometimes it works and sometimes, well sometimes itís just WRONG. I am of course talking about Thursdays cross dressing night at the Kalico which, after looking at certain members of Powder white who didnít have proper access to makeup remover, ran seamlessly into heavy eye liner Fridays.Look

posted: 16-01-2010
It was recently brought to my attention that one of the unwritten rules of shared staff accommodation was not only slightly bent but completely shattered. The rule in question refers to that old chestnut of bringing someone home and then keeping everyone else in the room awake while making sweet sweet love.Apart from the obvious inconvenience of waking up and keeping awake

posted: 09-01-2010
When you are looking for a job I can understand why you would want to be a plongeur (zero responsibility, hot and cold running plongeur groupies), a driver (minibuses and stuff) a chalet host (hard work and a fair amount of ski time) but I canít understand, with the possible exception of being an masochist, why you would want to be a resort manager or rep. If you are un

posted: 09-01-2010
Regardless of the state of the economy in the rest of the world you can guarantee someone around Courchevel will be flaunting their conspicuous consumption. If not in the size of their chalet then itís what they are driving. Now Ferraris are no big thing in Courchevel with 430s a dime a dozen in the spring. But earlier this week 3 Ferraris arrived on the back of a flat

posted: 02-01-2010
Iím sure over new years there were a lot taxing jobs carried out by a lot of very skilled people around resort. The Michelin stared chef, the pyrotechnic engineer, the DJ on the piste. But in my opinion there was one person who spent the night ìdirecting trafficî at the entrance to Kalico. On one side of the door was a scrum of people all wanting to get into the c

posted: 02-01-2010
So now the hangover from the end of the noughties has officially subsided itís time to start 2010 (MMX) or 5770 if you follow the Hebrew calendar and a new decade.But the big debate is do we called it twenty ten or two thousand and ten? According to the Vancouver olympic committee itís the former until we get to 2011 when two thousand and eleven sounds better. Anot