 Poster: A snowHead
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Returned from a week in Montgenevre.
The downs:
Baggage taken by mistake at Geneva Airport - Received at Mg 36 hours later.
Skis taken by mistake at mid station mountain restaurant - Returned approx 30 minutes later (not a long time but on the best day of the week for snow conditions!).
Only a 1 week holiday.
The ups:
Fantastic snow and weather, great holiday, managed to ski Sestrierre and Serre Chevaliere. Extremeley useful ski lesson and nice new goggles and ski trousers!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Fantastic snow and weather
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Blimey, I think you are the first person I have heard of in the last month who had half-way decent weather.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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the first person I have heard of in the last month who had half-way decent weather.
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our Easter week in Les Saisies was pretty good - one wall to wall blue sky and sunshine day, 2 very nice hazy sun days, 1 snow day, 1 rather foggy day, 1 clear but dull, 1 foggy morning, great sunny afternoon. The snow was terrific, and the pistes empty. After earlier forecasts of rain we were rather pleased.
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Second Bluebird powder Wednesday in two years in L2A the week after Easter today, two very happy mini  s exhausted and sound asleep now.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I was the other side of the border in Sauze. The start of the week couldn't have been better. Three blue sky days, then a big dump, followed by a couple of grey days. It couldn't have been much better.
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Last week in Austria - 3 sunny days (with fresh snow down), 2 snowy days, 2 cloudy days.
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Last week in Mayrhofen/Hintertux, two days of snow 4 days of sun and a Kasabian concert.
Tons of great o/p in the first half of the week after a big dump on Saturday and Sunday.
But did have a major disater at Edinburgh airport on the way out, one of the kids passports was out of data, EJ refused to let her fly.
However she is now enjoying herself in Alpe D'Huez this week after getting the one say service at the passport office.
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one of the kids passports was out of data, EJ refused to let her fly.
However she is now enjoying herself in Alpe D'Huez this week after getting the one say service at the passport office.
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a grownup kid, presumably, so her responsibility? What a pain though, and expensive. She must have felt very forlorn as you flew off.
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No it was worse than that, it was my fault, she is 12, I checked all the passports a month ago but didn't look at hers as it looked so new, forgetting that kids passports only last 5 year. I almost threw up and passed out at the check in desk when it became clear.
Luckily my ex was able to get down to the airport to pick her up, of course with it being Easter weekend, there was no way to get her out to Austria before Wednesday night, I did plan to do that and bought a BA flight for her but ended up jacking that idea in and instead bough a package deal for her and her mother to go out to ADH the following weekend.
So my failure to do a 5 second check cost my daughter and rest of the family a lot of disappointment, a lot of gut wrenching pain for me and my wallet £1300.
However my ex was delighted!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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JimboS, I do feel for you. It must have been horrible, especially if you don't often have holidays with your daughter, and it's very easily done.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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JimboS, Ouch, hope the wallet recovers!
How did the kids get on with Snowbombing? There were lots of jaded looking people in various branded memorabilia at the airport when we flew back! I'm tempted to take Jnr (11 at the moment) but feel he may be a tad too young for a couple of years.
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foxtrotzulu, it was fabulous blue skies most of the week in Verbier too, after a big snow dump Easter saturday night/sunday morning. The following Sunday had a lot of low cloud, but even then there were pockets of clear skies to be found all day in certain sections
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You know it makes sense.
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Well now you ask, we have been to Mayrhofen every year at Easter except last year (due to a wedding) since 2000 so our paths have crossed frequently with Snowbombing, always positively. In the first 7 or 8 years I booked flights/accommodation independently, latterly when there has only been four of us, it has been cheap last minute package deals.
Now this year I booked late but since there are 8 of us, a last minute deal was out of the question, so I had a look at the snowbombing site, but it was too late there also, nothing left in the village.
Luckily I did find 4 rooms in the Peruar next to the Ahorn lift and used EJ flights and a hire minivan.
The upshot of all that was that the kids did not have wristbands, you can buy them separately at £200 a pop, but none of the older kids were interested enough in the line up to shell out £200. However they all did manage to blag there way into the Kasbian concert for free.
Now on to snowbombing, generally in the village there are a lot of happy good humored drunks about, no problem, but this year we did see a lot more "yobs" and fights in the street. Did not see any problems on the hill but somehow it just felt different, and in future would consider avoiding that week.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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JimboS, thanks, useful to know.
I'm not sure we'd want to spend £200 for the whole lot, but would like to have seen Kasabian (I think I saw them last in 2004!). It's the yobs and fighting that would bother me too. We'll maybe leave it until Jnr is old enough to be a legal drunken yob in his own right!
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Poster: A snowHead
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Righting a wrong.
Six years on I finally rebooked for 9 of us to head back to the Hoff (getting the stars to align for 9 has not been easy). This time I got all the kids to send me a picture of their passport to check they were deffinately all still valid for March 30th next year. So there were be no airport dramas this time.
Going with Nielson to their Chalet hotel Ferienhof, anyone been there?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Righting a wrong.
Six years on I finally rebooked for 9 of us to head back to the Hoff (getting the stars to align for 9 has not been easy). This time I got all the kids to send me a picture of their passport to check they were deffinately all still valid for March 30th next year. So there were be no airport dramas this time.
Going with Nielson to their Chalet hotel Ferienhof, anyone been there? |
Can't help with your question, but I do remember your post of 6 years ago - well done!
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Righting a wrong.
Six years on I finally rebooked for 9 of us to head back to the Hoff (getting the stars to align for 9 has not been easy). This time I got all the kids to send me a picture of their passport to check they were deffinately all still valid for March 30th next year. So there were be no airport dramas this time.
Going with Nielson to their Chalet hotel Ferienhof, anyone been there? |
You might want to make sure that the passports are valid for at least 6 months after your planned return date, we don't know what's going to happen with brexit, and this was the first check I did.
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