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Decided to take a break from the iceboarding today and do a little survey of all the estate agents, with high street offices, here in Les Gets (74260) France. I found 10 unique agents in 11 locations. Here are snaps with their phone numbers and website links. Click the agency name or image to access […]

Here is a great photo taken outside my apartment in Les Gets in March 2006. (Thanks Kevin & Louise) Currently the same view is green grass with not a speck of snow. Please don’t laugh, tonight we are promised 1/2 inch of snow at the mid station 🙁 However, according to Jean-Michel at The Boomerang […]

As a little experiment I set myself a little walking route around the back of the apartment on the slopes of Mont Chery and then uploaded it to the GPS. I then tried following the route, with no map, just using the GPS. When I returned I downloaded where I had walked. The image shows […]

My star blogging protege Ellee is really riding high. Here are some comments culled from the internet today:- Paul Newman 43 year old Islington resident and London Conservative Mayor hopeful writes his thoughts and says:- 4 Ellee- I sometimes find Elee a bit alarmingly left wing…well compared to me anyway!! . She does like her […]

Looking back from the Nauchets Express into the Ranfoilly bowl. Remmants of artificial snow only. But the lifts are open with the Bruyere run into the village just about open and the Violettes run to the Nauchets still passable. Looking up the Gazelle black run on Mont Chery – not a spec of snow anywhere. […]

A gorgeous sunny day today with temperature over 10 degrees. Les Gets has now organised a free bus direct to Ardent from outside the Mont Chery bubble car. They depart at 08.45, 10.00 and 12.00 returning at 13.15, 15.30 and 16.45 from the bubble car station at Ardent. TC Ardent is very fast so its […]

Due to the overnight rain here in Les Gets and the lack of snow. We decided to try our luck in Avoriaz which at 1800metres is 700metres above Les Gets. Much, much better snow and obviously quite crowded, the off piste bits are still very icy but the pistes were in quite good condition. Here […]

The snow might be dreadful with only a handful of blue runs open but that doesn’t stop me geeking out . Here is a map of where I went boarding this afternoon, made by strapping  my GARMIN Etrex to my helmet and then importing the track log into my Memory Map.   Overlaid is my speed profile […]

Finally got around to writing a new post (I attempted one earlier but the PC crashed and lost it!) As Ellee reminded me its now 5 weeks since I posted which is some sort of record in my 6 years of blogging. I thought I would do a quick round up of the year.  Here […]

Autumn has finally arrived here in Cambridge. Here’s a couple of shots I took today between the rain. This one is outside Parkside pool. The new pool opened in May 1999 at a cost of about £12m the inside is now in a shockingly bad condition with the main internal support columns having heavy corrosion the […]