Re: Ski Social!

2003-01-17 Thread Dirk Koopman
On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 09:56, robin szemeti wrote: > I'm in if it can be later rather than sooner in feb. My good lady wife is due > to become much thinner around the 14th, and I think I'd be in trouble if I > wasnt there for the pushing and grunting bit. Just speaking from a little experience h

Re: Ski Social!

2003-01-17 Thread robin szemeti
On Thursday 16 January 2003 12:08, Ben wrote: > OK. No-one's posted about this for almost a week, so I thought I'd reopen > the discussion. > > I think we need to decide: Who? Where? When? How Long? uh huh. > Then we can go and book it. :) > > I'm not electing myself cat herder or anything, I'd

Re: Ski Social!

2003-01-16 Thread Lusercop
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 12:19:12PM +, Joel Bernstein wrote: > I'm definitely interested. I think Robin was, and maybe Leon. Beyond > that, I don't know. I'm interested depending on cost. I can probably manage the relevant days off, given sufficient notice. -- Lusercop.net - LARTing Lusers ev

Re: Ski Social!

2003-01-16 Thread Leon Brocard
Joel Bernstein sent the following bits through the ether: > I'm definitely interested. I think Robin was, and maybe Leon. Beyond > that, I don't know. Absolutely. I think it's a grand idea and don't mind taking two days off. Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com

Re: Ski Social!

2003-01-16 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 12:08:29PM +, Ben wrote: > > OK. No-one's posted about this for almost a week, so I thought I'd reopen > the discussion. > > I think we need to decide: Who? Where? When? How Long? > > Then we can go and book it. :) > > I'm not electing myself cat herder or anything,

Re: Ski Social!

2003-01-16 Thread Ben
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 06:25:17PM +, robin szemeti wrote: > > > Absolutely. I'm a huge fan of Val d'Isere, where I worked for a season. > > Chamonix isn't too convenient (valley town) but has marvellous skiing > > and is an hour from Geneva. > > I *love* chamonix ... so that would suit me.

Re: Ski Social!

2003-01-10 Thread Nicholas Clark
And I wasn't going to encourage this skiing thread by taking part... On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 05:10:53PM +, Andy Wardley wrote: > I reckon that all-in-all it takes about the same time going by train as > it does flying. But with the train you get to spend most of that time > sitting in a comf

Re: Ski Social!

2003-01-10 Thread Dirk Koopman
On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 17:27, Joel Bernstein wrote: > > > > I reckon that all-in-all it takes about the same time going by train as > > it does flying. But with the train you get to spend most of that time > > sitting in a comfy seat. > home->airport:35 mins > checkin,etc:

Re: Ski Social!

2003-01-10 Thread Andy Wardley
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 05:27:01PM +, Joel Bernstein wrote: > home->airport:35 mins > checkin,etc: 90 mins > easyget->gva: 50 mins or so afaik > checkout,etc: 60 mins > airport->chamonix:60 mins or so Sure, it all depends where you are and where you

Re: Ski Social!

2003-01-10 Thread robin szemeti
On Friday 10 January 2003 15:40, Joel Bernstein wrote: > > Might I tentatively suggest the last weekend in Feb? > > Possible... suits me ... > Absolutely. I'm a huge fan of Val d'Isere, where I worked for a season. > Chamonix isn't too convenient (valley town) but has marvellous skiing > and is

Re: Ski Social!

2003-01-10 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 05:10:53PM +, Andy Wardley wrote: > I can also highly recommend going via Eurostar. I forget how long it > is, something like 8 hours, but then it's only a 20-30 minute minibus > ride the other end. Ooh, good point! > > You walk straight on/off the train. No pissin

Re: Ski Social!

2003-01-10 Thread Robin Berjon
Andy Wardley wrote: I can also highly recommend going via Eurostar. I forget how long it is, something like 8 hours, but then it's only a 20-30 minute minibus ride the other end. Eurostar normally rocks. If you target Grenoble as the base from which to bus to the resort (and there's quite a

Re: Ski Social!

2003-01-10 Thread Andy Wardley
Ben wrote: > Could I also suggest a high resort, to avoid problems with lack of snow I can highly recommend Les Trois Vallees (Meribel, Courcheval, etc). > The only drawbacks are that it's a 3hr train, then a 1 hr bus I can also highly recommend going via Eurostar. I forget how long it is, so

Re: Ski Social!

2003-01-10 Thread Lusercop
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 03:40:40PM +, Joel Bernstein wrote: > Val d'Isere is wonderful. WONDERFUL. Possibly the best skiing in the > world, good nursery slopes, excellent ski schools (loads of choice too), I'd disagree with this. I found that the slopes in Val d'Isere getting back to the resor

Re: Ski Social!

2003-01-10 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 03:30:06PM +, Ben wrote: > On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 10:07:08AM +, Joel Bernstein wrote: > > When the lovely snow was coming down, Robin Szemeti and I discussed how > > we should do a London.PM-On-The-Piste social this winter. I was hoping > > to gauge opinion on this.

Re: Ski Social!

2003-01-10 Thread Ben
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 10:07:08AM +, Joel Bernstein wrote: > When the lovely snow was coming down, Robin Szemeti and I discussed how > we should do a London.PM-On-The-Piste social this winter. I was hoping > to gauge opinion on this... Would anybody be interested in a weekend in > the Alps ski

Re: Ski Social!

2003-01-10 Thread Leon Brocard
Joel Bernstein sent the following bits through the ether: > When the lovely snow was coming down, Robin Szemeti and I discussed how > we should do a London.PM-On-The-Piste social this winter. I was hoping > to gauge opinion on this... Would anybody be interested in a weekend in > the Alps skiing o

Re: Ski Social!

2003-01-10 Thread robin szemeti
On Friday 10 January 2003 10:07, Joel Bernstein wrote: > When the lovely snow was coming down, Robin Szemeti and I discussed how > we should do a London.PM-On-The-Piste social this winter. I was hoping > to gauge opinion on this... Would anybody be interested in a weekend in > the Alps skiing or sn