[wind noise]
Hello and welcome to Les Arcs in the French Alps
[music]
(I'm) trying to hold this camera steady while we're going up a chairlift and
it's not always easy. Currently on my first snowboarding
for many years since my knee injury that I did kite surfing. So a little bit
nervous but to to get up-to-date with how we got here let's go back and bring
you up to speed
[mellow music]
[light-hearted guitar music]
So there you have it. We're staying at the Huttopia campsite in Bourg Saint Maurice
and we got the funicular up the mountain. It's a free bus ride from the
campsite; that is if you're organised enough to put your name on the list the
night before. Most of you who know me will know that I am NOT organized and I
walked it - it was about 20 minutes to the funicular to get up the mountain and I'm
just a little bit nervous about kiting today...kiting???...snowboarding today
because it's the first time since my kitesurfing injury on my knee so let's
see how it goes but the one thing I love about snowboarding, it's not so much the
charging down the mountain, it's the mountains themselves. Look at that...
It's just... I love, I love it! Look! Oh, just amazing.
[sound of board cutting over the snow and wind whistling past the camera]
Well so far so good, I haven't killed myself yet! The knee has taken a bit of a
battering already, but you can see this is certainly the time to come because
the snow's great, there's nobody on the slopes! It's so quiet it's lovely, and I
just can't get enough of the views I really can't...
Anyway, let's charge down the mountain that way!
[sound of board cutting over the snow and wind whistling past the camera]
Just taking it easy!
[sound of board cutting over the snow]
Mind you, that bit wasn't meant to happen. Erm...oof... I kind of...um... yes, well, you see
it was like this; I was just... You see I was just... um... er... yes...
trying to get out of the way.
I think I just sit here for a minute
You know there are times...One of the timesI love most about this kind of thing is
when you stop halfway down the mountain and there's nobody around and there is
just total and utter silence
[whoosh of passing skier]
Until some flash skier comes past.
[music]
It's no good, I cannot vlog and snowboard at the same time.
Sorry! I'm a man, I cannot multitask
[ambient noise of lift machinery and people chatting]
Oh well that was really good. Really enjoyed that. Just heading back now to
the campsite...that camera's really wobbly....
Good morning! Well, that was a nice session's snowboarding two days ago.
Yesterday I wasn't too stiff either, so I was really pleased about that. But the
weather wasn't great, and the great thing is buying these half-day tickets (or four
hour tickets) as you go, you can just go as you please. So that's what we're going to
do, we're going to go up again today. Quick breakfast of porridge with nuts
and yummy stuff and then I'm going to head up for a few hours and see if we
can get to the top of the mountain, to the Aiguille Rouge, but we'll see.
But in the meantime breakfast
[cheerful music]
Well here we are again, and today with a clear sky the views are even more stunning!
I mean just look at that
[wind noise]
You know, I am not sure that I could ever get tired of this. To me, this is what
it's all about. So there's me.... HELLOOO!
and there is Mont Blanc. [Del boy accent] Mont Blanc Rodney, Mont Blanc!
Right then onwards and upwards!
Well, onwards and downwards I suppose. That's my snowboard that is.
[cheerful music]
Mont Blanc Rodney, Mont Blanc! This is the life!
[cheerful music]
Right, well that's me back at the van and just cleaning off the snowboarding kit
after another fantastic day up on the mountain. Unfortunately that's the last
full day of our trip. I've got to take Dougal to the vets now for his worming
treatment so he can get his passport stamped, as tomorrow we're heading back
to the UK and we get the Shuttle on the following day. We're gonna take two days
to get up to Calais. I have to say these past few days here in Bourg Saint Maurice in
the Alps have for me actually been the most enjoyable of the entire trip. I love
the mountains, I love the snow, it feels like a proper winter. As enjoyable as
Spain and Portugal were and I love the sunshine, and everything was half the
price than it is here, this to me feels like a proper winter and I've just...
for me personally I've just really enjoyed this and I love bringing my Caravan away
in the winter, it just feels so good to be doing something in this... in this
beautiful beautiful area. So I hope you enjoyed our little spot of winter
caravanning and our snowboarding. As ever, if you did enjoy it, please give it a
thumbs up, subscribe if you don't already and it just leaves me to say from Dougal
and from me...
Thanks for tuning in!
Right Dougal, you ready to go to the vets?
Go to the V-E-T? Going home? You're going home to the UK. Do you want to go home?
He doesn't look impressed.
He never smiles
[stomp music]
SEVENTY ONE EURO SIXTY??? HOW MUCH???? Seventy one Euro!
[stomp music]