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Does anybody have the dates for these yet for 2006 - 2007?
The website I normally look at is only showing this years dates at the moment. Want to get booked up, & miss the French hols! 
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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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Thanks fedbet,
Looks like French half-terms later than usual in 2007!
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Thanks fedbet,
Looks like French half-terms later than usual in 2007! |
Zone A, which includes Paris seems to start on 4 Feb.
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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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rob@rar.org.uk, Where do you get that? Its when I expected it, but on fedbets site it looks like zone A is 10th Feb.
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geri, oops, sorry! I was looking at 2006 not 2007 
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rob@rar.org.uk, Thanks - thought I was having a moment there!
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Great, same time as us again 
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Markw, there is always some overlap.
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there is always some overlap.
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there is always an overlap with one or other of the French zones, as their hols are spread over four weeks. Next season, with Easter a bit earlier than this year, the beginning of the Easter holidays could be a better bet, as the French don't seem to ski en masse at Easter. Early April should be pretty good for snow in many places, and the long light days are a delight. We are stuck with France as our apartment is in a French resort (we vacate it for the four weeks of half term....) but I gather that other countries don't suffer such a lemming like rush, so for people who are stuck with school holiday dates, there are probably better places in Austria, or Switzerland? If anyone know of such places maybe they could post about them (or maybe they would want to keep them for themselves). 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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The Nice/Marseille/Monaco winter holidays don't clash with the UK half-terms next season so the southern French Alps (Val d'Allos, Isola and Auron being the biggest resorts and which can only sensibly be accessed from the south) will be far quieter than the northern French Alps.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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pam w, it's such a drag having an apartment in France 
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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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Poster: A snowHead
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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?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Wear The Fox Hat, Should that be Alsations ?
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Frosty the Snowman, Don't start that France is going to the dogs thread again 
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boredsurfin ket me know if it's worth it.
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for quick reference
christmas holidays this year are starting 23rd and finishing 8th
forget feb after the 10th and into the first week of march as that is when all the schools are off for two weeks and they all overlap.
that pretty much covers all you'd need to know
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snowangel., w/c 10 and 17 Feb will be fine down in the southern French Alps as the local schools aren't on holiday then and it's too far to drive down from the places that are on holiday.
Not sure when the Italian school holidays are - they don't impact us up in the Val d'Allos but might add slightly to numbers in Isola.
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Some people are very very lucky
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Yes, agreed, we are, despite having to make ourselves scarce during the French school hols! We do "swaps" during that period with other apartment-owners who need the holiday weeks for family groups, then borrow theirs in low season, when they can't rent them too easily. No money changes hands, no tax, no hassle.
But it's not entirely luck. Planning comes into it! We're not particularly well-off, but took early retirement and make snow sports expenditure our priority. With no kids living at home now we have converted a room to a bed-sit for a lodger whose rent pays the mortgage on our apartment. I bet our 3 months ski-ing each year costs us less than some people spend on a fancy holiday in a rip-off resort and a full set of expensive new gear. The season lift passes, bought early at discount prices, cost about the same as a not-very-expensive new ski jacket.
Plus we get super cheap long mountain holidays in the spring, summer and autumn. Plus the apartment is appreciating fast in value, not that our kids and grand-kids are ever going to let us sell it!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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pam w, for me it was purely a case of being in the right place at the right time, and being honest.
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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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Why do you want to know the school holiday dates? are you going to rob the empty schools!? 
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all this talk of french holidays.. imagine how they feel when they realise they have inadvertantly booked to go in the u.k. feb half term!!
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