Blogs from Meribel, Rhône-Alpes, France, Europe

Ski season 2012 saw me cram in 3 trips to the slopes, with Bulgaria, Switzerland and Meribel on the hit list. Bulgaria was the first trip of the season and Chris had kindly allowed Steve, James and I to join him in his apartment. The long transfer time from the airport meant that we arrived in the early hours, and I don't think that the “pastry roulette” that I played at a service station en-route was hugely appreciated at breakfast time the next day!! (The random meat fully encased in a pastry bun unbelievably got left alone for the whole trip!) We'd decided not to book board hire this time, knowing the expensive prices and long queues down at the main hire place. This time we simply wandered down the road and discovered our Utopia. An ... read more

March saw the Baso boys on our hopefully now annual snowboarding trip. We were slightly down on numbers from Moss' stag do the previous year, but there were still 6 of us to hit the slopes (quite often literally and face-first!). All six of us were snowboarding this time, and we'd decided to do away with the self-catered efforts of last year and go for maximum ease with a fully catered chalet, that also included unlimited wine with dinner! Coupled with the fact that the chalet was about two minutes walk from the slopes it looked like it was going to be maximum results from minimum effort!! Our early morning flight meant that even after we had got sorted and the chalet and picked up our boards and gear, we still had the first afternoon to ... read more