in search of the kiwi

This blog thing just isn’t happening at the moment. Since I arrived back at Chalet Lou Rider so many things have been going on that I have ...

So much has happened, I got the ski bug big time and a few days after my first ski trip with Vanessa, I hit the slopes again, a different re...

Skiing was amazing, absolutely amazing. There had been fresh snow over the weekend and the mountains looked beautiful as we drove up to the...

It’s a dull and grey Sunday afternoon, the fire is giving great warmth to the room and an Elvis movie is playing on the television my hosts ...

The news was not what I had expected. Another delay, this time caused by the inefficiencies of Homeland Securities themselves. It took me...

I haven’t spoken much english since I arrived which is brilliant, rather daunting and restrictive when it comes to anything but the simplest...

Finally, the last host this summer and I find somewhere truly french.  A once grand, but now dilapidated farmhouse, the locals refer to it a...