 Poster: A snowHead
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| pam w wrote: |
| I love self-catering. . |
Me too. Soooo much more flexibility!
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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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Me four. But, much as I love the EoSB for all sorts of reasons, I'm not that keen on catering for people I hardly know, especially when they have special (and sometimes conflicting) dietary requirements. Pottering in the kitchen with friends and family, wine glass to hand, is lovely, though.
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Right that;s SC done - now fly v drive, TO v DIY Toofy Grin
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Yes, we are all a bit bored with no skiing to do. @Boris, You have clearly forgotten winter tyres, the merits or not of stopping overnight on route to the Alps, what to do with non skiing members of the party (ignore them) and, of course, staying walking distance from the slopes as opposed to driving there every day.
Ones we seem to be neglecting at the moment are: Austrian "twin" beds and nudity in saunas.
Roll on winter
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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 wrote: |
| I love self-catering. |
Me too. Tea when I want it, and how I want it.
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@johnE, Helmets - don't forget the helmets!
That's not related to nudity in saunas
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Not forgetting inner tip lead.
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@Hells Bells, Is that related to nudity in saunas 
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Austria is clearly better for skiing than France.
Fetches popcorn 
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@grumpygargoyle, You're absolutely right but don't tell anyone!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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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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Snowboarding is better than skiing
Runs and hides
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Austria is too low for snow. More popcorn anyone?
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You know it makes sense.
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Pottering in the kitchen with friends and family, wine glass to hand, is lovely, though.
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Agreed 
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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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grumpygargoyle wrote:
Austria is clearly better for skiing than France.
Fetches popcorn Toofy Grin
But not as good as Italy. Dons ski helmet and retires. Toofy Grin snowHead
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But nowhere near as good as Scotland
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Poster: A snowHead
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Pull the plug nurse, I'd rather crawl toward the light than read more of this dross 
Yooz tossers can't look at the embossed logos on ceramic bakeware or trust to local slipware that they've been cooking with for 100 generations without having a screaming brainfart. It's always nice to bring yer kitchen with you . . . But if you can't adapt to what's in front of you . . . WTF are Yooz doing on a "self-catering" holiday?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@Masque, have another pill
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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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@rjs, I thought 20 a day was normal, especially on holiday
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Egg cups. Apparently some people can't do without them. I was prepared for complaints about only 15Mbps broadband, no microwave, and even lack of HD on the cable TV, but not that we only provided two egg cups. What are the probabilities that any group of 4-6 people will all want to have a boiled egg at breakfast? But there you are, and now we have 6 in the cupboard I'm pretty sure no one has used them in the last 5 years.
And as an owner, what's the thing with corkscrews? Why do at least 2 corkscrews disappear each season? And people so regularly moved the full-length bedroom mirror to face the end of the double-bed that we eventually conceded and relocated it there permanently (even, though it renders it useless as a clothes mirror).
On the other hand, we have also accumulated some stuff as well, including a TV, a coffee percolator and a mattress and duvet.
Last edited by You need to Login to know who's really who. on Sun 16-06-19 10:09; edited 1 time in total
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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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| Hurtle wrote: |
| @Masque, have another pill |
+1 mate, chill.
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| LaForet wrote: |
| Egg cups. Apparently some people can't do without them. I was prepared for complaints about only 15Mbps broadband, no microwave, and even lack of HD on the cable TV, but not that we only provided two egg cups. |
l always bring my own egg cups when self catering anyway.
I'm a bit paranoid that Masque might drop round and need an egg and it won't be served properly.
To be honest it hasn't happened yet but it's good to know that one is prepared for these eventualities.
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@under a new name, Teaspoons and also pegs are what disappear for us, teaspoons for the picnic on the way home and pegs for sealing opened packets of stuff, we suppose?
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@Zorrac, we don't supply those peg things. Teaspoons I think get thrown out in the yoghurt pot.
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@under a new name, your teaspoons must have found their way to mine, 12 have become 18 for some reason.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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In my apartment I have pretty much everything including a knife sharpener and a champagne cork puller. In 7 years of renting I lost 1 teaspoon and had 1 glass broken. I lost a few bits if linens to various stains though.
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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 hate self-catering. I go on holiday to be waited on!!
We went on (a self-catering) holiday to a tiny villa in Italy in 2015, and it had a collection of very strange contraptions in the kitchenette. It had no oven or kettle, and instead of a toaster there was a metal frame thing which we decided must have been for toasting bread in the gas hob flames!!
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@Hells Bells, what the feckety feck? I’ll pm my address 
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You know it makes sense.
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The joy of self catering is that you dont! Breakfast is easy with local pastries etc. Buy fruit juice and milk and bring your own coffee and sugar. Eat out or bring in the wonderful rotisserie chickens or pizzas for the evening. Cheese, fruit and biscuits for snacks and lots and lots of wine. An essential carry with you is a decent sharp knife, there will almost never be one of those should you want it. So the kitchen in self catering accommodation is a place where you cool your wine, refrigerate your milk, butter and fruit juice and where you find wine glasses (there are always, in my experience, plenty of those. As someone else has said in Europe morning coffee is drunk from what look like cereal bowls so there may well be no cups or mugs. The kitchens and in fact apartments are rarely suitable for actually doing any real "catering/cooking".
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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@FFIRMIN, wrote:
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The joy of self catering is that you don't!
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If you need mugs, then buy them and leave them for the next occupant.
If you need to eat then there are plenty of restaurants and bars to supply you through the day.
Self catering, by renting from the local agents not UK tour operators, leaves enough "spare" money to eat out every night and still have change from a catered chalet or hotel. The flexibility to eat what I want when I want is crucial.
The rigidity of catered chalet or hotel menus, having to sit down at a specified time to eat dinner with strangers who I may or may not like is a definite no-no. Drinking "free" wine but only until coffee is served. Having to get in the shower first before the hot water runs out. Having to listen to skier's tales which put fisherman's tales into the realms of understatement. An honesty bar where no-one apart from you is honest.
Plus I get 2 weeks skiing self-catered for similar price to one week catered. Bit of a no-brainer for those who think skiing is the most important part of a ski holiday.
Rant over
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Poster: A snowHead
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Large and small sharp knives, peeler, small zip lock bags with spices including Chinese 5 spice [ do not be tempted to buy the bags with the cannabis leaf motif plod will not believe it is parsley ] When doing a self drive or travelling by coach where the luggage is not weighed my pressure cooker came along.
Tettly T bags were required by one regular.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@TQA, at my gaff you get kit not consumables.
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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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| holidayloverxx wrote: |
| @TQA, at my gaff you get kit not consumables. |
In that respect UK and USA self catering accommodation generally wins. In France it seems normal to have condiments etc by the end of the season because earlier occupants have left them behind but nothing much else. Whereas in the UK & USA there has always been a 'welcome gift' of things like tea, coffee, often wine (once Prosecco) biscuits, bread & cheese (cold cured meats once too), along with a selection of herbs, spices and sauces.
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There may be some dried herbs and spices, oil , vinegar and maybe an unopened jar of mustard or jam. Odd tin of tomatoes and some pasta. The salt and pepper grinders will be full, and there will be Yorkshire tea bags, and a couple of loo rolls, and maybe some kitchen paper if it hasn't ran out between visits.
Welcome packs are a no starter as we don't live on site. I would have to pay someone to shop for it. The clue in this all is 'self-catering'. So there is plenty of equipment provided, but very little in the way of food.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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@CaravanSkier, there are dried herbs, oil and vinegar. as @Hells Bells says - self catering, but there is no need to bring anything other than food items
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We provide hand wash, some loo rolls, dishwasher tabs, and any herbs and spices get left so at a minimum salt, pepper and sugar.
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@under a new name, yes, hand wash and a couple of loo rolls too
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And people so regularly moved the full-length bedroom mirror to face the end of the double-bed that we eventually conceded and relocated it there permanently (even, though it renders it useless as a clothes mirror).
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Sounds to me people didn't want a clothes mirror but did want an unclothed mirror
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I have loads of refills of hand wash at the apartment in a box under the sink, but someone is always throwing away the bottle, so every time we get there there isn't anything to put the refill into, and then I have to start all over again.
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| Hells Bells wrote: |
There may be some dried herbs and spices, oil , vinegar and maybe an unopened jar of mustard or jam. Odd tin of tomatoes and some pasta. The salt and pepper grinders will be full, and there will be Yorkshire tea bags, and a couple of loo rolls, and maybe some kitchen paper if it hasn't ran out between visits.
Welcome packs are a no starter as we don't live on site. I would have to pay someone to shop for it. The clue in this all is 'self-catering'. So there is plenty of equipment provided, but very little in the way of food. |
I really don`t 'expect' much from s/c accommodation, I can always cope with whatever isn`t, or is, there, (indeed I normally arrive at ski accommodation having done a big shop down in the valley enroute) but it is very pleasant to arrive and find those little extras. Glass of wine in hand makes the unpacking decidedly less tedious! And somehow the wine purchased enroute has always been tucked into the most inaccessible crannies in the car!
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