{"id":996,"date":"2008-02-13T20:11:44","date_gmt":"2008-02-13T20:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffjones.com\/2008\/02\/13\/drumming-beats-in-les-gets\/"},"modified":"2008-02-13T20:11:44","modified_gmt":"2008-02-13T20:11:44","slug":"drumming-beats-in-les-gets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=996","title":{"rendered":"Drumming Beats in Les Gets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here in Les Gets there are always lots of happenings, rather reminds me of a huge Club Med. Today when the pistes had shut down we were entertained in the newly constructed area by the ice rink (patinore) with the <strong>Marabunta drummers&#8217; fiendish rhythms<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/funkybeat.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"153\" alt=\"funkybeat\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/funkybeat-thumb.jpg\" width=\"361\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>Rather reminded me of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Spiegelhalter\">David&#8217;<\/a>s Drummin Divas group in Cambridge although from what I remember there group doesn&#8217;t have such sexy dancers \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>To mark the end of today&#8217;s <strong>SNOW CARNIVAL GRAND PARADE<\/strong> we also had fireworks on the slopes. <\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow its love all the way:-<\/p>\n<p><em>T<\/em><strong><em>hursday 14th February       <br \/>Traditional market in the morning        <br \/>VALENTINE&#8217;S DAY ON MONT CHERY        <br \/>Celebrate St Valentine&#8217;s Day on Mont Chery, a location to love! Activities and surprises to enjoy; meet at the Mont Chery ticket office.        <br \/>From 3pm : Come and buy a flaming torch from the ESF in aid of &#171; l&#8217;Op&#233;ration Pi&#232;ces Jaunes &#187; for 5&#8364; each. These torches will light the instructors&#8217; way in the special descent at 6.30pm.        <br \/>3pm:&#160;&#160;&#160; ESF Junior Giant Slalom on Mont Ch&#233;ry. Information and registration at the ESF chalet by Wednesday evening please. Prizegiving is at 5.30pm on the ESF podium, conditions permitting.         <br \/>4pm-5pm: Free Milka snacks for all, entertainment and competition with lots of prizes to win (meet at the foot of the slopes).        <br \/>4pm-7pm: Carnavallissimo ice party in conjunction with the 15th Snow Carnival. Dance and have fun on the open-air rink. Lots of goodies to win&#8230;bonne chance!        <br \/>5.30pm: Goat farm tour at the Sarre farm (on the Sarre road). Please book on         <br \/>+33 (0)4 50 79 71 62 &#8211; Prices &#8364;5 per person, max 20 pers.        <br \/>6.30pm: Take part in a torchlit descent with the ESF &#8211; with mulled wine and hot chocolate afterwards. You can buy a flaming torch at the ESF chalet for 5&#8364; in aid of&#160; l&#8217;Op&#233;ration Pi&#232;ces Jaunes. Open to 2eme &#233;toile, 2eme classe skiers. Meet at the Chavannes cable car.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here in Les Gets there are always lots of happenings, rather reminds me of a huge Club Med. Today when the pistes had shut down we were entertained in the newly constructed area by the ice rink (patinore) with the Marabunta drummers&#8217; fiendish rhythms: &#160; Rather reminded me of David&#8217;s Drummin Divas group in Cambridge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}