World Wide Walkies

The Vikings Have Left the Building

P1050065 — Frozen Waterfall at Gressoney St Jean

Peace has descended once more on the Lys Valley. The Vikings have left the building.

We suspect that they departed in the wee small hours and decided not to do anything as mundane as go to bed. Nightlife here is limited – we did once see a person dance on a table in bar but that was an isolated incident and happened well before 8pm.

Nevertheless, I heard some Viking improvisation. Sleep evaded me as a light switch in the next room was switched on and off really quickly to produce disco-effect lighting as an accompaniment to the clattering, singing and what sounded like handfuls of marbles being dropped repeatedly to scatter on the tiled floor.

Noisy neighbours for a week. Such are the tribulations of skiing for a season!

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That Monday Morning Feeling…

**We have experienced a few problems with a Viking invasion…**

If you read my last post, you will know that we are suffering a few issues with a full scale Viking invasion.

Last night, The Vikings went a’Viking once again. Yes –you might not know that Viking, or more correctly, Vikingr, is actually a verb used to describe men behaving badly with beards, backpacks and broadswords.

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How to Improve Your Skiing IMMEASURABLY!

ski-2946716_640 — “You do it like this!” – Not All Ski Instruction is the Same…

Previously, we discussed why it is that “With Great Powder Comes Great Responsibility.”

I also mentioned that the prospect of skiing down seven Chilean volcanoes was how we discovered our tried-and-trusted way to get into the back country safely.

A side-effect of all this was that our skiing improved IMMEASURABLY! So pull up a pew and I shall tell you how!

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A Viking Charm Offensive – and Other Oxymorons.

We went to bed in rapt antici…pation of an early start and getting first tracks…

Oxymoron – noun [ok-si-mawr–on]. Rhetoric.

“A figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, as in ‘cruel kindness’ or ‘to make haste slowly.’”

We went to bed in rapt antici…pation of an early start and getting first tracks, but our plans went horribly awry at midnight.

The Vikings arrived!

We got a small sense of how the monks of Lindisfarne might have felt in AD 793. We cowered in the dark while doors slammed, voices shouted and a multitude of feet echoed as they ran up and down the stone stairwell.Continue reading “A Viking Charm Offensive – and Other Oxymorons.”