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The golden age of the Brit skiing holiday..?
 Poster: A snowHead
Poster: A snowHead

@boarder2020, I have the opposite approach to you with regards lunch. We have always had a proper sit down lunch on the mountain, it is a vital part of the experience for us all. And frankly we cover more ground in a good morning of skiing than most do in w whole day anyway, more time is lost to faffing and stopping multiple times on a run than for anything else. One of the reasons we quite like Monetrosa, with it's long descents and fairly fast lifts allowing for a lot of ground to be covered if you can ski all runs in one go. And another reason I love spring skiing as it is idea for this rythmn.

But I know many who take your approach and they enjoy their winter holidays every bit as much as we do, so there is something to be said for both approaches!

Driving distances are interesting and I also am frequently surprised at what most UK people consider to be "quite a drive". I grew up in Africa and now live in rural Scotland. Anything less that 100 miles seems just rounds the corner to me, and it has to be over 500 miles for me to feel it is long way tbh. When we were a bit younger we lived in Thurso and would regularly drive down to Inverness for the day on a whim for some shopping or a meal out etc, that would be over 2 hours each way and never seemed much of a bother. So I agree it really depends on what you are used to.
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 Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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boarder2020 wrote:

I'm pretty sure there is a general correlation between country size and acceptable driving times. In UK we rarely have to drive long distances to the point where 2 hours is considerable. My Canadian friends will drive 4 hours each way for an event without really thinking twice.

The Dutch and Belgians seem to go against this somewhat though.

Your answer already given by Orange200:
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I have a suspicion the British reluctance to drive is partly the mental block of the Channel, perhaps we’d be more open to drive without that added hour or few. Driving doesn’t stop the Belgians and Dutch.

In fact, I think small country bordering large country don’t behave like small countries when it comes to driving. They simply drive to (or through) their big neighbors as if the border aren’t there.

For much of my life in the US, I live relatively close to the Canadian border. I cross it as if the border isn’t there. Sometimes going for dinner in Toronto or Montreal (helps when pre-9/11 it didn’t even require a passport). I know people living in Southern California think of Mexico the same way. But for many Americans who don’t live near the border, they don’t think of Canada/Mexico as part of the same country the way I and my local friends felt.
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