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Advice needed re Italian resort suitable for first skiing hol
We're about to book our very first skiing holiday and need some advice. =
We're a family of 4 (2 teenagers) and are looking at Italy during the = last week in March. Can anyone recommend a resort suitable for = beginners, not too busy and with lots of snow in late March? We'll be = booking a package holiday. Any advice would be welcome. TIA. Jan |
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"wallace" wrote in message
... We're about to book our very first skiing holiday and need some advice. We're a family of 4 (2 teenagers) and are looking at Italy during the last week in March. Can anyone recommend a resort suitable for beginners, not too busy and with lots of snow in late March? We'll be booking a package holiday. Any advice would be welcome. TIA. Jan... How do any of us know which resorts will have snow in late March? Do what everyone else does, go high up and improve your chances. Do some research on the web - google is a good start with a search like "Italian ski resort beginners late snow". Oh, I wouldn't recommend putting "lots of snow" in your search, as that's unlikely to produce too many results... and EVEN if it did - the other term "not too busy" is unlikely to be met in any resort with "lots of snow" in late season... I think that "lots of people" and "not too snowy" is more likely to be the case, but you may get lucky with the weather... no-one knows. I appreciate that you are obviously inexperienced, but unfortunately what one person considers to be a "beginners" resort is not always what another one thinks and on a newsgroup, you are only getting the opinion of one person most of the time. You're far better off looking at the "Good Ski Guide" or something or go to the Ski Club of Great Britain site and get some more considered opinions, rather than that of someone who fancied a chalet maid in Sauze D'Oulx once so recommends it to you as a good resort... |
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wallace wrote: We're about to book our very first skiing holiday and need some advice. We're a family of 4 (2 teenagers) and are looking at Italy during the last week in March. Can anyone recommend a resort suitable for beginners, not too busy and with lots of snow in late March? We'll be booking a package holiday. Any advice would be welcome. TIA. Why Italy? How much are you planning to spend? Why do you think you need "lots of snow" (however much that is)? Some resorts require metres of snow to cover rocks. Some need just a few tens of centimetres to cover flat, pasture-like slopes. You, on the other hand, only need the top few centimetres! Livigno scores fairly well for beginners, though the resort is quite sprawling and the two sides of the valley aren't linked (apart from by bus). It's a high, snow-sure resort, so you should be fine well in to March. It does get very cold, but as it's a duty free resort a nice, warming whiskey isn't expensive. La Rosiere (France) has nice, wide pistes for beginners and has an average of 240cm of snow during the last week of March. The town is small but has all that you'd need as a self-caterer or chalet guest. You can also get in to La Thuile in Italy on the same pass. Whether any resorts are busy depends on which week you're going. When's Easter next year? Head on over to http://www.snowheads.com/forum/, register, and ask your question there. You'd be surprised at the a number of messages that people post there - it far exceeds this group at the moment. Also look through the resort pages at http:/www.skiclub.co.uk/ -- Hywel |
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baby, born dead
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side up in a large metal roasting pan.
Bake in 325° oven covered for 2 hours. Remove cover, stick a cooking thermometer deep into one of the baby?s buttocks and cook uncovered till thermometer reads 190°, about another hour. Pro-Choice Po-Boy Soft-shelled crabs serve just as well in this classic southern delicacy. The sandwich originated in New Orleans, where an abundance of abortion clinics thrive and hot French bread is always available. 2 cleaned fetuses, head on 2 eggs 1 tablespoon yellow mustard 1 cup seasoned flour oil enough for deep frying 1 loaf French bread Lettuce tomatoes mayonnaise, etc. Marinate the fetuses in the egg-mustard mixture. Dredge thoroughly in flour. Fry at 375° until crispy golden brown. Remove and place on paper towels. Holiday Youngster One can easily adapt this recipe to ham, though as presented, it violates no religious taboos against swine. 1 large toddler or small child, cleaned and de-headed Kentucky Bourbon Sauce (see index) 1 large can pineapple slices Whole cloves Place him (or ham) or her in a large glass baking dish, buttocks up. Tie with butcher string around and across so that he looks like he?s crawling. Glaze, then arrange pineapples and secure with cloves. Bake uncovered in 350° oven till thermometer reaches 160°. Cajun Babies J |
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"wallace" wrote in message ... We're about to book our very first skiing holiday and need some advice. We're a family of 4 (2 teenagers) and are looking at Italy during the last week in March. Can anyone recommend a resort suitable for beginners, not too busy and with lots of snow in late March? We'll be booking a package holiday. Any advice would be welcome. TIA. Jan Sestriere looked good for beginners when I popped over from Sauze d'Oulx. It is also supposed to be pretty snow-sure. It also looks suitable from the write up in "Where to Ski and Snowboard 2005" which you should really get. Nick |
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