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Here's the full jaw-dropping quote - not written by an estate agent, you'll understand, but a Times journalist:
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| Eco-ski, for example, is not a well-known concept, but it is the next big thing, according to the owners of Avoriaz, a 1,800m resort in the French Alps. It is a convenient 1-hour drive from Geneva, and is in the Portes du Soleil region, an area renowned for its sunshine. Pierre & Vacances (P&V), the French holiday and property company, is building two new developments here, MGM and Les Crozats, that will offer contemporary apartment blocks that will also include gyms, Turkish baths, swimming pools and spas. The resort has been car-free since it was built in the Sixties - eco-friendly horse-drawn carts transport residents from a big underground car park to their apartments, which are ski-in, ski-out. This also cuts out noise pollution: jingling bells replace the sound of engines. |
I particularly love the bit that goes "... eco-friendly horse-drawn carts transport residents from a big underground car park to their apartments" [where stables link to the ski room?]
Please read the full text and select any personal highlights:
French property: bargain ski apartments in the Alps
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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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Eco-friendly horse-drawn carts...?
Is there a fundamental difference to the polluting qualities of horse fart as opposed to cattle fart...? 
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Does the eco-friendly horse also take you to the heli pad?
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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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And also do you fly to geneva on a sleigh dragged by geese!? I reckon there could be some wicked baggage restrictions 
I do kinda like the idea of this though.
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Luxury and high end are bad words to use in a recession so lets use "eco" instead.
Smacks of substitution of "green policy/ environmental charges" for "tax"
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In the newspaper, alongside the same article, they printed a little map to show where Les Arcs is ..... half-way between Marseilles and Monaco according to the Times
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| In the newspaper, alongside the same article, they printed a little map to show where Les Arcs is ..... half-way between Marseilles and Monaco according to the Times |
Just one of the many errors from the Times in that article. Sloppy journalism, and one of the usual puff pieces which seem to typify their coverage of holiday property in ski resorts.
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I was recently asked to provide free accommodation for a well known ski journalist travelling to Monetier, I was rather uneasy about it, fortunately he decided he would rather stay in a catered place.
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