must be the vin rouge!!!
Kate Jefferson
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Saturday, 21 March 2009
Before and after
Blue skies in Brevent
Shut eyes in Mont Saxonnex
A warm, but great day in the valley of chamonix is clearly too much for Grant.
Or was it the Vin rouge?
Miles Jefferson
www.chaletdoctors.com
For all your property needs in the French alps
www.chaletdoctors.com
For all your property needs in the French alps
Wednesday, 4 March 2009
Le Ty Mad
Haute cuisine it isn't but it is in the Haute Savoie. Saint Gervais les Bains to be precise.
If you want a quick bite, something non Savoyarde on your French ski break or holiday in the French alps then try a Ty Mad cheese burger.
They are tasty, filling, reasonably priced and come with optional home made chips.
€6 for the burger and €2.50 for the chips. I think that is pretty good.
Simple fare, served simply; quick, unpretentious food.
And, if you can get a smile out of the proprietor then you are a better man than me.
Don't let that put you off though, he doesn't bite.
The Ty Mad is 200 metres from the Bettex cable car in Saint Gervais at 873 Avenue Mont d'Arbois.
Miles Jefferson
www.chaletdoctors.com
For all your property needs in the French alps
Monday, 2 March 2009
Water, water everywhere...
To steal a few lines from the ancient mariner....
Had the old salt avoided albatrosses and stuck to water when he was knocking around on his boat he might have been struck, had he been a linguist, by the similarities in Europe of the names of certain types of strong drink.
Apart from Britain which distilled a strong flavoured alchohol (Gin) because the water was poisonous, drinking it as a preference to the H²O variety, to stay alive . The Irish, Scots, French, Scandinavians and Slavic nations all brewed up something called water but which in fact was alchohol.
Did you know that whisky in old Irish means water of life as does the French "eau de vie." Aquavit to the Danes is the very same thing and the peoples of Poland, Russia etc. when they knock back too much Vodka, might be forgiven for being unable to recall where the K came from and why they are getting so blathered on the clear stuff, as Voda means water in Slav.
And does this explain why the Brits all get pissed so much as we were brought up on Gin?
Miles Jefferson
www.chaletdoctors.com
For all your property needs in the French alps
Had the old salt avoided albatrosses and stuck to water when he was knocking around on his boat he might have been struck, had he been a linguist, by the similarities in Europe of the names of certain types of strong drink.
Apart from Britain which distilled a strong flavoured alchohol (Gin) because the water was poisonous, drinking it as a preference to the H²O variety, to stay alive . The Irish, Scots, French, Scandinavians and Slavic nations all brewed up something called water but which in fact was alchohol.
Did you know that whisky in old Irish means water of life as does the French "eau de vie." Aquavit to the Danes is the very same thing and the peoples of Poland, Russia etc. when they knock back too much Vodka, might be forgiven for being unable to recall where the K came from and why they are getting so blathered on the clear stuff, as Voda means water in Slav.
And does this explain why the Brits all get pissed so much as we were brought up on Gin?
Miles Jefferson
www.chaletdoctors.com
For all your property needs in the French alps
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