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How long will it take to drive to Tignes? The short answer: It  depends on where you starting from!! I can give you some idea on how long it takes me to drive from London to Tignes, which might help your journey planning (should you want to drive from the UK to Tignes sometimes soon). [...]

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The Happy End deal, running May 3rd – 9th May 2010 for the last week skiing and riding around Tignes with Toviere, Palet and Grande Motte area fully open. What a season it was and what an end to the season it still is.  Just check the latest weather forecast. The forecast is for fresh [...]

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How lucky am I? Thousands of people stranded abroad due to international flight cancellations, and I am in Tignes. Let’s hope flights won’t restart until the 11th May when the Tignes winter ski season officially closes. Of course I have been thinking about contingency plans for how to get back to the UK. To be [...]

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Why do I go back to Tignes year after year? Because if you are going anywhere else, lower altitude you are taking a chance and might ski in the rain.

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Everything seems to be on sale these days. Skiing in Tignes is no different and there is a bunch of stuff you can get at discounted rates. You just have to look.

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if you have flexibility, can get a last minute flight or live in France you can have my ski apartment in Tignes for free. Stop press: the week available is in four days time, w/c 7th March 2010…. and free means free. I even pay for the change-over cost!!

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Imagine spending some time at 2100m base, fresh crisp mountain air and pleasant 23C temperature. Imagine doing any outdoor sport you can think of on snow, in mountains and around a lake. Imagine the sound of cowbells as you walk up one of the many trails around Val claret and Tignes Le Lac. If you [...]

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Last weekend Tignes host the Parisiene Street Golf Association also called  ‘The 19th Hole’. You might not be aware but Tignes got a full size 18 hole golf course between Tignes le Lac and Val Claret including the highest hole in Europe at over 2100m. Last weekend holes were even higher with additional ‘greens’ set-up [...]

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Just on the plane back from Geneva to Gatwick, reflecting what was another excellent skiing break to Tignes.  Our trip was initially planned as a strategic business review weekend but we ended up skiing more than we thought. The conditions where fantastic! We even got some late season powder on Tignes’ Grand Motte glacier. Well, [...]

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On my way to another ski holiday in Tignes.   My excuse for skiing holidays in Tignes?  Making sure my ski apartment is still o.k.  After all it has been a long and fantastic ski season and I have seen very little of my own ski accommodation. This year I skied a lot of other ski [...]

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