The fragile opening of this winter’s ski season…
Back in early November, I joined the Ski Podcast for a chat about the upcoming season, ski touring in Chamonix and more. At 7:30mins in, Iain asks me if I […]
Tag Archives: France
First steps back to normality
Now that we can travel in either direction between the UK countries such as France, Italy and Spain without having to self-isolate afterwards, we can finally enjoy some of the […]
Oman and 3 Ultras…
Given that we’ve been in coronavirus lockdown and many of the summer trail races have been canceled this year, I look back at my last season’s bonanza’ of competitions with […]
The joys of (de)confinement in France
Yesterday, French Prime Minister Édouard Philippe announced that from June 2, bars, restaurants, parks, and museums will begin opening in France. We will also be allowed to travel more than […]
A change of plan
The coronavirus pandemic meant this years ski season was cut short. So, whilst in lockdown and missing the snow, I was inspired to put a little film together about one […]
Gastronomy and more in the Midi-Pyrenees
Doused in heritage with old hamlets, drowsy villages and towns studding its lush green hills, Southern France’s Occitania region only officially come into being in 2016 with the pairing of Languedoc-Roussillon and the […]
(Non) Chamonix Spring / Summer 2017
Chamonix spring and summer didn’t really happen for me this year. Once last year’s achilles tendentious eased off, the pain moved to the calf, with muscle tears in exactly the […]
Cable car drama above Chamonix….
I’ve not posted for some time now as I’ve been happily getting on with life in Chamonix – and Geneva at my new job as news editor at World Radio […]
Chamonix: a year on…warts and all
It’s been nearly a year since I packed up my Peugeot 107 and drove off into the Alpine sunset and having had a few people asking me about how it’s […]
March madness…
March has been an incredibly busy month with me whizzing from resorts in Austria to Switzerland to Austria again and back to France and Chamonix. My first port of call […]
