We live in crazy times. This year’s family ski trip in December would be different. I would take three of my teenage grandchildren skiing, “sans parents.” I had taken one of these kids skiing before and she was a competent skier. The other two were starting their lives as skiers. We planned to visit Serre […]
Not as well-known as its neighbor, Zermatt, Saas Fee is a good bet for snow in April. Taking advantage of my granddaughter’s Spring vacation, we planned a week’s skiing on one of Europe’s largest glaciers. But make no mistake about it, there are no closeout bargains in Switzerland. A senior discount for the ski pass, […]
Looking for a traditional French village with a ski resort, I came across Val Cenis in Savoie, at the southern side of the highest paved mountain pass in Europe, Col de l’Iseran, 2,764 meters. In winter the closest airport is Turin and then the Frejus Tunnel. Flying to Geneva is also a possibility. We sought […]
Planning in late summer for an early December ski trip in Europe you have to think about glaciers. There are a number of possibilities: Zermatt in Switzerland, Cervinia in Italy, and Hintertux, Kitzsteinhorn, and Stubai in Austria. Glacier skiing used to be confined to summer and pre-season skiing, but with global warming, the situation is […]
Who says drinking and “riding” don’t go together? They certainly do! We just came back from a week’s bike ride through part of the Loire Valley, drinking and riding. We had six days of easy riding, covering about 20 – 25 miles each day. Landing at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, we took the […]
Everything about Val d’Isere, is over the top; the excitement of skiing on so many World Cup pistes, the snow, the lift system, the extensive possibilities from Le Fornet to Tignes, the restaurants, the traffic to and from Geneva Airport, the prices, the number of skiers on the pistes with you, and the skiing atmosphere […]
Having celebrated my 80th birthday in November, 2022, I guess I’m an old skier, not just a senior skier. It was the pandemic which stopped me from skiing in 2020 and 2021, not age. In January, 2020, I skied a week in Chamonix, and then the pandemic nixed my downhill program for the remainder of the […]
On the recommendation of a dear French friend who lives in Grenoble, we booked two weeks at Monetier les Bains in the Serre Chevalier Valley, between Grenoble and Turin in Italy. It is less well-known and less crowded than such mega-resorts as Chamonix and Val d’Isere, which also makes them more low key. The Serre […]
Snow was falling when we arrived in the small Italian town of Cervinia, for 3 1/2 days of skiing to celebrate my 80th birthday. Arriving from Israel, my two daughters, son and I drove the 180 km. (112 miles) from the Milan airport to Cervinia on an overcast December afternoon. Cervinia is the Italian side […]