Everybody’s favourite Serre Che-based ski instructor and all round poppet Mr Darren Turner has just made the UK’s Independent newspaper’s Top 10 Best Ski Apps.
Darren runs Insight ski school and is the originator of the Ski School App, which allows you to download a tiny monitor for your pocket. A veritable leprechaun of information for you to glean insights even as you sit on the lift.
It is for this that The Independent listed Herr Turner – coming in at number seven on the list. They list his intermediate, but there are all levels available from those who are buckling up their boots for the first time all the way up to those who want to attack the moguls. He’s even branching into kit reviews if you want to see what the tech’s going on with new equipment.
If you want to experience Darren in the flesh I can’t recommend any one stronger for one on one lessons, he’s based in Chantermerle and you can often see his distinctive ochre jacket around Serre Ratier.
Serre Chevalier d’org salutes this local hero, keep on keepin’ on Darren.
Well it’s humid with low cloud in Serre Chevalier so naturally I’m not going up. There is a brightness of luminosity so it could all burn off, if so I’m straight up.
Whilst not skiing I’ve been having a look at this international trade agreement called the “Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement” or ACTA.
As you probably know the world is being turned into a prison camp run by psychopaths hell-bent on the destruction of the individual and operating on the blueprints laid down by Orwell in 1984 and Huxley in Brave New World. Well this ACTA thing is just one more brick in the wall.
It’s not that I care much, but I feel by mentioning my opposition to it this will absolve me for any complicity incurred by not really doing anything about it.
Anyway this constriction of our God-given rights is ongoing, after SOPA comes ACTA, then FEMA camps by many accounts. A new war would distract us all enough to get the police-state installed – for our protection you understand. Luckily that’s not likely – oh, sorry forget that bit.
ACTA will affect your enjoyment of this very site, and if you use the internet – which I’m guessing you do – things are being set up to change very quickly, and in secret. Until then farewell.
I was very happy to read that Anna Turney is back in Serre Chevalier this season. Actually Anna got married last year so you might know her now as Anna Walford. Anna’s blog post about training in Serre Chevalier is here. In her post she said: This season I am based mostly in Serre Chevalier, [...]
Jo from Mountain High just sent me an email saying they need to get a booking for the week commencing 4th Feb which is still available. This is currently priced at £2200 but they are reducing it to £1500, if you have a big group coming out to Serre Chevalier, you won’t find a better [...]
I happened to find myself in the A and E department of Briancon hospital the other day as my five year-old had managed to knock herself unconscious falling over in the playground at school. I got back from a morning ski to anxious and guilty looking in-laws who confessed she’d been carted off to hospital [...]
Hey all, Conditions are great and the weather is perfect, yet, for the first time, we have some late availability for February mid-term so we are offering a 30% reduction for the following weeks (prices per apartment per week): 28 Jan – 4 Feb 575 euros, reduced from 820 euros 4 – 11 Feb 575 [...]
The wind wasn’t dying down, it is blowing a very gusty gale up there. Monetier is sealed off from the rest of Serre Chevalier and only Cibiout in the upper section is open. It was an excuse to do it for the first time this season – it was in the sun, but small comfort [...]
Just a small one before Rick does something related to Serre Chevalier. It’s been on the cards for a while, but WWIII is now on, with France of all places firing one of the first shots. The French warship La Motte-Picquet, passed a few miles off the Iranian coast yesterday, just to let Iran know [...]
Here’s an interesting property up at ‘The Sporting’ complex in Villeneuve for anyone wishing to make a serious business in Serre Chevalier. The current owners describe it is an ‘apartment/chalet in need of improvement’ comprising of 14 bedrooms, 12 bathrooms. Kitchen dinning area, store rooms. The surface area is huge, more than 300 sqm At [...]
Kung Hei Fat Choy readers. It’s Chinese New Year and we’re now in the year of the Dragon, which is nice. It’s been incredibly windy of late, in fact it seems as if there is a load more wind this year up Serre Chevalier way than I remember over previous ones. Monetier has been isolated [...]
