Did you know I’m one of Hackney’s more adventurous residents?
Apparently so. Pretty chuffed that a knock-on effect of stopping the miserable commute has been that I am locally entrenched enough to be a newsworthy Hackney citizen TWICE! That’s once here for singing in public, and once here for being the perso…
Singing Elgar in Hackney
Work hard, play hard and hobby hard, I say. My latest wintertime hobby is choral singing – I am a member of the Hackney Singers, a brilliant bunch of singers who bite off seriously tough choral projects, and meet weekly in St Luke’s in Hackney to …
Someone asked my opinion…
At the London ski show staff from a new video site were asking passersby to ramble on at length, in an amateur fashion, about their experiences of working in resort. I didn’t like to show them up with my polished presenting style, so I toned it do…
Coast to coast
Coast_to_coast.pdf
What’s so good about Breckenridge?
A page for Fall-Line issue 89 on Breckenridge, Colorado village of gold nuggets, bacon and maple syrup, some sort of vicious tree-eating weevil, and bright-coloured clapboard saloons. A year after the trip, that’s the over-riding flavour left in m…
Mad Dog newsletters
Cheap deals, secret resort and a big pancake! Dear Hannah, Mad Dog has been digging about in the snow to find you some juicy bits and pieces from the ski world. Gnaw away! Top ten ski resorts Those folk at easyJet have declared that the top ten re…
Day two in Japan: a ‘bad’ powder day…
Warning: only read on if you are not the jealous type. I’m in Furano, in central Hokkaido, Japan’s north island. Any Japan spods will know that it’s illegal to ski off-piste in Furano (and it’s not just one of those empty threats either – I know s…
Day one in Japan. Affirmative: they do get cows drunk
Today I achieved two long-held ambitions – to go to the Sapporo Snow Festival, and to eat Kobe beef. More on both later, but suffice to say both were a spectacle. Kobe beef cows, incidentally, really are massaged with beer, but not, as I had alway…
Day zero in Japan: absolutely not faffing in Tokyo
Getting to Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost island, is always going to be a faff. Of course, if you have time, a faff is exactly what you want. It’s while faffing that you meet people and see all the weird signs, bits of tat, delicious and suspiciou…
Resort reviews on Laax in Switzerland, and Kitzbühel in Austria, for www.ifyouski.com’s new website
http://beta.ifyouski.com/ski-extras/more/features/kitzbuhel.aspxhttp://beta.ifyouski.com/ski-extras/more/features/laax.aspx