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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Paris sounds good @sbooker. The WWI memorial will be poignant, as has been mentioned above. We've visited a few WWI sites and museums in the Somme area. The scale of it all is incomprehensible and so moving. We all owe them (and a lot more after them) so much... 
I hope all goes well with your onward travel to Tignes. We're en route now to an overnight near Manchester Airport. Flight is mid morning tomorrow.
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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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I’ve woken at 2am again. Hopefully this is the last night of jet lag.
My train to Amiens was late by over an hour and I would have missed the connecting train to Villers. I was also nervous about my early evening train back to Paris being delayed too (there’s a problem with the line apparently) so I had to bail on the trip to the Western Front memorial (after wasting an hour and a half at Gare de Nord). I was very disappointed.
But I met up with the crew and went to the church on the hill at Montmarte. A fantastic view of Paris and a spectacular building. Also did the obligatory Arc de Triomphe thing and took my wife to the original Chanel store for a memorable perfume purchase. Missing the trip to Amiens gives us an excuse to come back I suppose.
Train to Bourg tomorrow (today). We’ll go to the markets at the Bastille first I’m told.
Catering for 6 people in tourist traps can be costly. Money seems to just disappear somehow. Apparently ‘go fund me’ pages are a thing now so I’m contemplating it. 
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I'm awake too, and can't blame jet-lag. Old age, more like. Very sorry to hear that you missed the Western Front memorial, after such a big effort to get there. Hope the trip down to the mountains goes better. 
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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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@pam w,
Thanks. To be honest I’m a little concerned as the first week in Tignes will possibly be snowy and or gloomy the whole time. I really hope the weather doesn’t negatively affect the newbies idea of ski holidays. In hindsight Les Arcs would have been better with its more prolific tree lined runs.
I’m sure they’ll get some jaw dropping views at some point.
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I really hope the weather doesn’t negatively affect the newbies
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It will be fine. Truly.
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@under a new name,
Every prior ski holiday I’m hoping for endless snowfall. Now I’m stressing because of too much snow. 
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Worry is understandable at this point @sbooker. You've invested a huge amount of everything into this trip and have an evangelical zeal to get your two young proselytes hooked. New snow will mean Tignes is "ready to go" - it'll take a few days before some of the other resorts are skiable.
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@sbooker, I assume you all have decent low light goggles?
I bought my first pair of decent low light goggles during a particularly snowy week in Tignes - dumping heavily and/or flat light for 6 days straight - and the goggles did help most of the time.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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@Jagerbull, Got the goggles covered. Thanks.
We’re now in resort. I’m taking one for team by waiting for take away pizza (while having a beer in the Marmot Arms). So nice to see snow again. Kids are pumped!
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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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I’m taking one for team by waiting for take away pizza (while having a beer in the Marmot Arms).
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You're a hero
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You know it makes sense.
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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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@sbooker, could you do us just a teeny favour, and edit your thread title. We're going to be reading it a lot in the coming weeks...... Go back to your original post, and it's easy to change it.
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Poster: A snowHead
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@pam w, ha ha...just spotted that!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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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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I noticed it immediately and it's been playing havoc with my OCD tendencies.
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I wondered who would break and ask for it to be changed
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I thought we should at least wait till he'd reached the Alps. Out of basic decency.....
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It’s snowing and my turns are a bit rusty. Kids are in their lesson. Going for a coffee and croissant. I have 24 days to get my turns up to scratch.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Bombs going off now. Still snowing.
Kids are up and away with their boarding.
I’m with a guided group today.
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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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| sbooker wrote: |
| . I have 24 days to get my turns up to scratch. |
Are you here for 24 days?
Enjoy today
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| sbooker wrote: |
Phew. On the RER heading to our Paris hotel. The first leg of our flight to Singapore was challenging. We must have scored the nursery section. 5 babies under two years old sitting within 5 metres. Blood curdling screeching from on of them.
The second leg to Paris was great. I got 8 hours sleep. As did the family. |
8 hours sleep on a long haul flight? Was that in economy? I’m seriously jealous. I’ve purposely booked all daytime flights to London from Adelaide (leave next Monday) because even with sleeping tablets I just can’t sleep on planes.
Will be following this thread in anticipation of my trip. Can’t wait to escape the summer heat.
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You know it makes sense.
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| Raven wrote: |
| Will be following this thread in anticipation of my trip. Can’t wait to escape the summer heat. |
That's something you very rarely hear people say in the UK!
Must admit I find it very strange to think of going to the Southern hemisphere to ski in our Summer - but I totally get why someone might.
Last edited by You know it makes sense. on Mon 9-01-23 11:54; edited 1 time in total
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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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@Layne, I've only done it once - to Chile. Lots of us try to get to the mountains in the summer to escape the heat. The Uk was unpleasantly hot last summer. I think most summers I have stood on natural snow at least once - in the Vanoise or the Dolomites
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@stewart woodward, Not in Tignes for that long. Just the week. Then we go to Les Arcs and then Chamonix.
Just came back from my morning with the guide/instructor. It was awesome. There were some areas that the snow was too deep for my relatively skinny skis. My legs are trashed. I’m going to have to stick to pistes or side piste this afternoon. I’ve got another off piste morning tomorrow.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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@Raven,
I’m compact. One of the few advantages of being short. I have a technique that works most times. I can usually get at least six hours. There are ear plugs and a sleeping tablet involved.
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@sbooker, what skis are you on? May need something fatter with there being fresh snow and you skiing off piste.
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| Layne wrote: |
| @sbooker, what skis are you on? May need something fatter with there being fresh snow and you skiing off piste. |
Blizzard Rustler 9. They’re 92mm under foot and as I’m a light weight they are fine in fresh snow up to about 20cm. Some places today were much deeper than that.
I should mention I’m no great skier.
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Ah, 92 should be OK and that ski sounds like a good fit and should be good enough.
Have a good evenings rest and enjoy the pow in the morning - practice makes perfect!!
PM if you need off piste or even piste ideas or have questions on Les Arcs/La Plagne - the area I know best of where you are going. Conscious you asked me something in one of my TR's that I didn't answer!
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@Layne,
Thanks. I agree that practice is important.
I’ll try to survive this week before I think about Les Arcs.
Now to ski some pistes that have been topped up with the current snow. I’ll head down the hill to the tree lined area.
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@sbooker, those slips were both typos, not grammar. Would always ignore those until it really, really, gets too glaring - as in a thread title!! Just don't get apostrophe's wrong. 
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