SKI-er or Sk-ater. We know how to enjoy ourselves

Newly_retired

Best wishes to you and your DH, margaretclare. With your very positive outlook on life you are an example to us all ( and you remind me of my Mum, sadly no longer with us, but she was always positive whatever the circumstances). Glad you had a good Christmas Day and hope the decisions made in recent days work out for the very best for you both.

balmaiden

Just a brief one to wish you all a happy and healthy new year. My very best to you and your husband Margaretclare.We have had a year of illness and bereavment and it makes me all the more determined to continue with our SKI-ing.

We are off to Mexico in Feb, we were booked for India, but the family were not happy about that, given recent events there. My 8 year old dg is an avid news watcher and I couldn't upset her as she really is a little worrier.

Francophile

This threat has been quiet for a while. Is eveyone off ski-ing?
Just thought I'd give you a wee update. I finished my radiotherapy treatment 2 days before Christmas. It was great to have it all over and be able to start the new year with a clean sheet so to speak. Apparently it keeps on working for 2 weeks after the treatment finishes so that was 2 weeks today and I'm feeling fine.
We've booked to go to our house in France on the 4th MArch for a week as we missed our week in October due to my BC operation. My sister and BIL are coming with us so I'm really looking forward to that. Then yesterday I found a flight to Paris at the end of March (DH's birthday) for 40€ return for both of us so couldn't resist. Just booked the hotel (Best Western near the Arc du Triompe, looks nice). The return coach from the airport to centre of Paris is costing €52 so more than the cost of the flights but hey ho you only live once so better make the best of it. A happy new year to you all by the way.

Francophile

Excuse spelling mistake in previous post I meant Thread not threat

seven-day-weekend

Glad you have finished your treatment with good results Francophile, and enjoy your SKI-ing.

Well....we have had to have a new boiler for our UK house so that has used up a bit of our SKI-ing money.

But I also spotted a cheap flight for £40 return , tax included, from Birmingham to Malaga in March, for two, so have booked it for my son and his girlfriend (it's their Christmas present).

It still ended up as £100 by the time all the 'extras' were added on, but still a good deal, I think.

Does that class as SKI-ing?

Merrywidow

Hi there SDW - I am back in town - although sick as a rat with a cold - thank goodness for the flu jab. My trip to Amsterdam for New Year was on my air miles freebee 'cause I got the TSB airmiles credit cards - I used half for this trip and got to use the rest before end of March which co-incides with the birthday of my sister in law. Right now I feel like hibernating till this cold spell is over. Tenerife was lovely on my sun starved body and I am hungry for more - pauze to sneeze! Of course your purchase for your son is ski-ing - I was planning to rent in Spain in May for brother in law and family but they had already booked for Italy so the world is by oyster once again.

When I got back there was a great parcel of all the new Saga travel mags for this year.

donny-gal

Hi Everyone

Paying for son and maybe even son+gf to come and see you is ski-ing in my books anyway.

Re the Paris trip, there is a train direct from CDG to Gare du Nord, then you can catch the Metro to the Arc, we did it, we got return train tickets and bought a book of metro tickets, 10 for the price of 8 I think it was. It was quite easy. If this is your first trip to Paris, I would recommend the open top buses. Not cheap I know but they stop all the way round and you can get on and off as much as you like for 2 days, and Paris is not small!

If you want a nice restaurant near the Sacre Coeur/Montmatre, then PM me your email and I will send you a scan of their card. Nice 4 course meal, a very reasonably by Paris standards.

So far we are hoping to go to Spain around the end of Jan for a couple of months, and then off to France for a month in the Caravan at third week June, and hoping to catch Bastille day in Paris, I was there for it 20 years ago and the atmosphere was electric. We are also looking at Spring Bank and August in the Caravan in the UK, so will pack the wellies. :rotfl:

DH celebrates his 60th at the end of August, so we are running a caravan rally ove the Bank Holiday when it occurs, and then probably back to Spain late September/early October.

There will also be many weekends in the 'van in between. Just need to figure out when we will tackle decorating the lounge - anyone good at decorating out there, we hate it with a passion.

DG

seven-day-weekend

My husband is 60 in just over a week!

We were going to the UK to celebrate it, but instead we are staying here in Spain. His cousin (the only member of his family he knows properly) and her husband are coming out to celebrate it with him. There is a party on Monday (curry evening) for an English lady in the village who is 60, so we are celebrating at that, and then my husband will celebrate his again in the UK in June when his best friend of nearly 50 years is also 60, they are going 'to get the band back together - it's a mission from God' as the Blues Brothers say.

I am 60 in January 2010 and would like to be in the UK for that, but we shall see.

seven-day-weekend

Just a thought - I don't mind being 60 next January, I'm looking forward to it because I get my Pension, but what I can't come to terms with is three days later my son will be 30!:eek::eek:

donny-gal

Will you get at UK OAP then? As I am only a baby at 57, I am affected by the staggering the age to 65, hence I will be 61 years, 4 months and 22 days old when I get my pension. Why on earth they work it out to such a point is beyond me.

Is it a little cool with you atm? It is showing me that I am only 1 degree lower than Spain, it was only 4 degrees difference yesterday, but 15 degrees difference the day before :rotfl:

DG