davegtt

WTF is wrong with this country. Once a year it comes to a halt because of a little bit of white powder on the floor. Christ, we are supposed to be a developed country and one able to wipe out other countries if we needed to etc but when it comes to a little bit of adverse weather we cant even get a plane to take off.

Flying home from Salzburg on Saturday and our lfight was delayed, they couldnt get our plane into Luton so after waiting at the airport for 8 and a half hours in a cold snowy austria, they let us take off and fly to Stansted and transfer us by bus to Luton

Shambles I tell you, absolute shambles.

StickyMicky

Bloke on the news said he had been away for a skiing trip, had no hassles, and then could not get back home due to a bit of snow

davegtt

That'll be me then

Geezer

We do not get enough snow to warrant an investment in dealing with it properly.

Funnily enough, that's why the ski resort had no problems.....

Geezer

StickyMicky

but its every winter ?

cookstar

iTrader: (6)

I fear my antenatal yoga may be cancelled again tonight.

Clarebabes

Dave, did you go to Kranjska Gora? We're off there soon....

Clarebabes

We didn't have much snow at all last year, and I can't remember it being like this for a long time!

Leslie

Since we are told that global warming means cold winters and cold wet summers, I suppose we have to expect snowy winters to continue!

Les

SiPie

One of my favourite places



PS Change title of thread to Snow and SOUTHERN ENGLAND

We're doing fine up here thanks, plenty of snow and all seems to move just fine

Klaatu

I wonder what caused the "snows" in the 70's and 80's? CO2?? I recall walking to Portsmouth train station from Stamshaw at 8am in -40c (With windchill) in the earth 80's.

davegtt

Yes I did, lovely place. Stayed int he same hotel as where you are going. Be warned though, its certainly not cheap. I lost my gloves and the cheapest replacement out there was £40 and theyre not all that either

Will report back witha couple of piccies soon when I have more time to chat. first day back in work so trying to catch up.

rossyboy

iTrader: (8)

Thats not really completely true though. I live in Aberdeen and it took me 45 minutes to drive 1 mile home from work on Friday! Without snow, its about 5 minutes.

On the same day I know someone that took 3 1/2 hours to travel home about 6 miles.

All our schools still close at a hint of snow aswell.

J4CKO

iTrader: (1)

Dave, have you been reading the Daily Mail ?

As has been said, the goverment dont spend enough money on it, they get blamed but to be honest round here the roads have been gritted very well, remember that depsite some incompetence that the goverment work within the confines of what the electorate pay in taxes but then claim backmaybe the two million unemployed could clear the snow, maybe the long term sick could wade in but they are too busy building extensions (see I do Daily Mail quite well as well).

Its not always the government or anyones fault, stuff just happens, we try to blame any weather on global warming, weather happened before Global Warming was invented a handful of years ago.

The countries that cope better with it get it more often, I suspect if the same happens next year we might get a bit better, and then the year after and so on, I stayed ina French Ski Resort, it dumped 2ft of in 26 hrs Snow and there were diggers and dumpers working all night to keep things going but it happens every year and if people cant get there they cant spend money, so a commercial incentive helps, which has to be greater than the investment, every twenty years doesnt justify a massive snow clearing infrastructure sat there doing nothing the rest of the year, ideas for uitilising the equipment the rest of the year in some other capacity would be good, Bin Wagons with Snow ploughs ?


Anyway, moan too much and there will be a new law introduced that all cars must have winter tyres from October to April !

coolangatta

Snow and Britain go together as well as grit and vaseline

Luan Pra bang

I think the issue is that we expect the government to bail us out when very simply people have it well within their means to make snow driving easy. Just fit all weather tyres or get one of those snow socks etc, we have an expectation that the goverment needs to fix it when many people should actually look after themselves. The manager of a large hotel in MK actually went around in his rear wheel drive BMW and picked up staff who claimed they were snowed in, people just chose to be lazy.

coolangatta

Spot on

Scoobychick

iTrader: (1)

You've tried the latter have you?

davegtt

Im not talking about roads in general, sure some are bad but not all, busy ones usually deal with themselves. I dont expect them to do everything but an airport for example. The amount of traffic that goes through there you'd expect them to have that sorted.

Clare, pics from Kranjska Gora

The view from our Hotel room.








This one is actually Austria but we passed it on the journey to Slovenia, very nice site and now my desktop photo


If you want to know anything about the resort or hotel just drop me a PM

SiPie

Admittedly a lighter fall in the Borders (than Aberdeen) but gritters seem to have done their job for once

Clarebabes

Cool, I expect a good report then

I'm hoping the skiing is OK, I am not a complete beginner, but didn't want anything too challenging....

davegtt

Trust me, there is nothing challenging really. The majority of the slopes are all straights but nice and wide. Not too busy either Lift 7 takes you quite high up and has a good few corners involved etc and was nice to do. A couple of black runs but think they were mainly because they were very steep.

Ive come back on crutches, racing down the first slope and come off, did my ligaments in my knee Well worth it though, luckily my damage was all done on the last day

PLENTY of snow, to the point where you couldnt tell there was cars underneath the snow Very very deep. Loved the place but a good skier may well get bored of the slopes

coolangatta

Haven't we all

Scoobychick

iTrader: (1)

Ah, about that...I told you never to mention it...

Dave, is that how you spent most of the week? On your bum?

hodgy0_2

mmm i,ve got a car like that!!

davegtt

I managed to change positions a few times. Being on top isnt her favorite position

Seriously though, I thought I picked it up really easily and was blasting down the slopes really quick by the end of the week, hence coming home on crutches

davyboy

Looks good.

We are now staying at the Prisank hotel, the orginal deal fell through, but we found this via lastminute with Inghams.

GC8

Because the Europeans dont 'benefit' from our temperate climate, they get this every year. I suppose that even Southerners could become reasonably proficient if they were used to it and fitted Winter tyres every year.

davegtt

tbh, Prisank was nice too, that is the sister hotel and had the main bar for stuff like the quiz night on Mondays and Karaoke on Mon/Thursday so you'll be ok there. It was a nice place. Barely 30seconds walk from the slopes too