Come on... let's not lie. For many a seasonaire, being here in Courchevel is basically like being on a five month holiday where instead of paying for shit your just have to clean skid marks off a few toilets. There are some rules to follow though. And here they are: boiled down into an essential guide: Seasonaires must always: 1. Wear a (preferably neon colourful) kn
At the beginning of every season I meet at least 5 wannabe writers who all enthusiastically ask if they can write some articles for me. Generally, with the exception of Debbie(Inghams 09) who wrote me a regular column last year, nothing ever comes of it. Well this week an anonymous writer under the nom de plume of Belle de Neige has submitted a very amusing look at a chale
A chalet girl has many...I would like to voice my Chalet girl pet hates. As many of us chalet bitches in Courchevel find on a daily basis, not every experience is happy... basically if one's clients were a bunch of farmyard animals it would be a less caotic experience! Some of them are Pigs, I tell you. Pigs! There are many things which conspire to irk the chalet girl. He
After last weeks destruction of Emma knee ligaments it begs the question who would try and upstage her. Apparently Jamie(Ski Total) not only grabbed the baton but ran into the distance like a Jamaican relay runner. While practicing some snowboarding trick whose name, as a skier, escapes me, his board caught an edge, spinning it around, breaking his ankle. Actually thatÃÂ
Wednesday saw the workers challenge, part of the Natives show love tour, in Meribel. Consisting of both an individual giant slalom and a team slalom. In the individual GS Jamie from Scott Dunn, Ben from Powder white and Jen from the Killimandjaro represented Courchevel 1850 with some performing better than others. Donning her go faster kilt Jen was the first down the cours
For anyone who hasnÃÂt seen BBC SwitchÃÂs The season (lets call them the lucky ones) it follows the very dull love lives of a bunch of spoilt seasonnaires in Val dÃÂIsere. As it was made for Switch, which is aimed at teens, it means it couldnÃÂt contain any vices in any way. No smoking, no drinking, no nudity. Just good wholesome teen relationships. I know, pretty
