In the Christmas Spirit?
10/12/2023 With Christmas approaching, what is better to get you in the mood than a trip to a Christmas market? Surrounded by all the trappings of the festive period it… Read more »
Tag: ski
Trying somewhere new in Champoluc
08/12/23 Cervinia is great, and we love going back, but we feel disappointed if we dont try somewhere new. We had heard of a new sosta near the ski resort… Read more »
December Skiing in Cervinia
30/11/2023 Our first day in Cervinia was not to be the mega skiing day we had hoped for. Snow fell during the night and then continued to fall all day…. Read more »
Marmots in the Saas Valley
24/09/2023 South of the Rhone Valley, starting near the town of Visp, is a long valley that forks in two as it heads towards Italy. In one branch of this… Read more »
Closing Weekend in Valtournenche
15th April Leaving Antey-Saint-Andre We packed up Bertie and used the services in Antey-Saint-Andre before moving further up the valley. The services only had the one tap with a short… Read more »
More Snippets from Cervinia
08/04/2023 Getting Busy There had been a handful of people in the sosta when we arrived, but things gradually got busier until we found ourselves surrounded by over 40 motorhomes…. Read more »
Back in Cervinia
05/04/2023 We left Chatillon and eased Bertie up the road to Cervinia on the Wednesday before Easter. It wasn’t clear how busy Cervinia would be this Easter but it was… Read more »
Arriving in Aosta
03/04/23 Another Aosta valley new experience beckoned. We have never actually visited Aosta itself, which seems like a major omission in our frequent visits to the eponymous valley. Aosta Town… Read more »
Traversing the Aosta Valley – Pre-Saint-Didier
01/04/23 We were on a quest to find new things to do in the Aosta Valley. La Thuile was a good start but it was time to move on. The… Read more »
Wild Winds in La Thuile
30/03/2023 It was time to move on from Samoens and from France, heading East to Italy where we expect to spend the remainder of our skiing time. First, a shopping… Read more »
A Family Week in the Grand Massif
23/03/2023 Skiing has always been a bit of a family pastime. Paul and Aaron’s first experience of skiing was when Paul’s Dad generously paid for the whole family to go… Read more »
The Ups and Downs of Ski Weather
16/03/2023 Skiing despite the weather in Les Saisies 2023 has been one of the worst ski seasons for some time. A combination of low snowfall and warm temperatures have left… Read more »
Run to the Alps
09/03/2023 It’s been a long time since Bertie had a big adventure! When we returned from our two years of travel in 2019 we aimed for another five years of… Read more »
Our Three Months Skiing. How Much Did We Spend?
We have spent the past three months skiing from our motorhome. Now that we have finally packed the skis away it is time to do the totting up. How much… Read more »
Buona Pasqua from Bormio
19/04/19 – 22/04/19 From Livigno we drove back down to Bormio, looking for somewhere that might have some Easter activity that wasn’t centred around skiing and late night loud and… Read more »
A Final Ski in Livigno?
16/04/19 – 19/04/19 After a decent fall of snow in Passo Tonale we were torn about our next steps. Should we plough on into the Dolomites? The ski season was… Read more »
Passo Tonale. The White War and Non Stop Snow
12/04/19 – 15/04/19 Passo Tonale didn’t fill us with enthusiasm when we turned up. The previous couple of days notwithstanding, we just found the layout of the resort – hotels… Read more »
Staffal but no Sosta
08/04/19 – 10/04/19 The Monte Rosa ski area covers three parallel valleys in the Aosta region. Each valley has ski resort villages and facilities for motorhomes so all we had… Read more »
Being Snowed On in Breuil-Cervinia
31/03/19 – 06/04/19 After our couple of days in the warmth of the Aosta valley we were considering skiing again. This time we weren’t going to take any chances. With… Read more »
Spring Skiing in St Gervais les Bains
25/03/19 – 28/03/19 We were in St-Gervais-les-Bains, not because we had any particular plans, but because I was feeling under the weather and we wanted somewhere free and warm (ie… Read more »