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Nice

Nice 2005

We took Lorraine away for a weekend in Nice. We travelled with EUJet from Manston airport, Kent and flew directly to Nice airport, a 20 minute bus ride from the centre of Nice.

We took a walk towards the Fruit and Flower market and had a lovely wander around before it started to rain and we took this as an opportunity to grab some lunch. We headed to the hotel Solara and checked in. We headed off towards the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art and walked around the outside, but as it was only an hour before closing we decided to head off to the beachfront for a couple of beers in the sunshine.

On Sunday we headed off along the Promenade des Anglais to the Port and admired the huge boats before catching a bus to Cimiez and having a wander through the beautiful Franciscan Monestary gardens before heading back towards the airport and back to Kent.

Nice was a great place for the weekend, lots to do and see and I think it is safe to say that we all enjoyed it.

Lets get political

Junk mail to our household from political parties

I was endeavouring to be fair to all parties and so kept all the bumf that we’ve received through the letter box. The end result of this is that I can’t be bothered to read it all, and so have decided to count them instead. Not sure what this tells us, but the honour of “Most leaflets” must be shared between the Conservative Party and the Green Party.

always used to use

I always used to use BT OpenWorld’s Pixology service for getting prints from digital over the internet. When I tried to do this on Saturday I was informed that the service was no longer available. Richard pointed out that there is an iPhoto service linked to Kodak which does prints, so we investigated, discovered it was 14p per print cheaper than I used to pay and ordered some prints. They arrived today, so 5 days from ordering to receiving, including 2 weekend days and a bank holiday. Pretty impressive, and the quality is great too.

was having browse around

I was having a browse around iPod Hacks over lunch and spotted a couple of Shuffle protectors – the Griffin iVault (a bit hard core for me) and Wrappers (my favourite is sunflower). Currently I don’t have a cover for my shuffle, although we do have an eVo iSkin for our main iPod.

We ve recently come

We’ve recently come across the Freebord – it looks like an interesting design, and the videos make it look like a really close match to snowboarding in style. We haven’t invested in one yet, but it is pretty tempting.

So we ve seen

So, we’ve seen our last real snow (I think) for the season, and finished with a great long
weekend in Chatel one of the resorts in the Portes Du Soleil area. We were really lucky and snow fell the day we
travelled and on our first day on the slopes and refreshed some otherwise struggling pistes. We spent one day in the Linga and Pré-la-Joux areas (a great, if low-visibility day), another day in the Lindaret area of Avoriaz (our favourite area when we were there at New Year) and our final half day in Super Chatel (limited terrain but great for practicing riding switch). Perversely enough, this was amongst the best snow we’ve had in any of our three trips this season despite it being almost the end of season.

Spring Snowboarding in the

Lindarets powder field

Spring Snowboarding in the Portes du Soleil

ve finally got around

Lake Kootenay Kimbereley Beautiful Canada Panorama

I’ve finally got around to sorting out the Canada photos

What a surprise

The election has been called for 5th May, who’d have thought it… Some of the people in my office have already had their polling cards through. The BBC have a decent looking Issues guide to help compare the policies on offer from Labour, the Conservatives, the Lib Dems, Green and UKIP.

Canada

March 2005

2 weeks in Canada snowboarding. We did 4 days snowboarding in Fernie, then 2 in Kimberley. We then had a day off and drove to Nelson (which was mostly shut) before catching the Lake Kootenay Ferry. We then moved on to Panorama and did 2 days snowboarding, with a day off for exploring other resorts, and another day snowboarding. Our final day was spent at Kicking Horse enjoying a powder bowl at the top.
A great trip, a beautiful part of the world. Shame about the lack of snow – Fernie and Panorama look like they’d be excellent when the snow is better.