Here we try and give some advice about driving from the UK to La Tania - something many people dismiss as really not viable compared to flying. In reality, it's probably the best (and least stressful) option Jump to Preparing for your journey Route summary from Calais Our return to skiing, after a break when the children were very small, was in 2003. The grandparents looked after the children (3, 7, 12), so it was just Melinda and me. We…

Last season – 2021/2022 – was a game of two halves. Well, three halves, really. A bit like one of those black runs where you start off thinking – for perhaps 30 seconds - what a great skier you are, then realise why it’s a black and finally, with jelly legs and ashen face, arrive at the bottom relieved and a little surprised that you’re still in one piece. Unless you’re helicoptered off, it doesn’t matter how bad it was…

I am writing this back in the UK. We’ve been back for a week and already I’m missing La Tania, the sun, snow. And, of course, everyone who took a leap of faith and came to see us over the last few months. I am very aware that to book a ski holiday with a new, unproven business in the midst of a pandemic not to mention Brexit you need, well, as the French would say avoir des couilles. Over…