The Ski Podcast6 Dec 2021

84: Travel Rules Latest, Booking Lessons Online & Prepping your Ski Kit

In this episode, we cover all the latest rules about travel, we look at a new way of booking ski lessons and discuss how to get your kit ready for the season.

Iain was joined by Lucy Aspden, Online Ski Editor at The Telegraph and Nick Robinson, founder of Maison Sport, a portal for booking ski lessons, as well as regulars Katie Crowe from Battleface Travel Insurance and equipment expert Al Morgan from SkiKiIinfo.

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SHOW NOTES

Lucy was on the show a year ago in Episode 60
Austrian lockdown will be until 13 Dec at least
Switzerland quarantine for UK passengers started on Sat 27 November and was reversed on Friday 03 December
In France, all skiers need to show the Pass Sanitaire to use ski lifts, and the non-vaccinated must show daily negative Covid tests
The Super Green Pass (meaning skiing would be restricted to only the vaccinated and recovered) in Italy has been deferred unless the situation worsens
The UK has introduced a compulsory PCR test and quarantine onreturn to the UK as well as pre-return negative test requirement.
The definition of what 'fully vaccinated' means is changing by country (and the day) to as little as 7 months before a booster is required
Battleface offer specialised winter sports cover

We had so many snow reports this week, we had to put them into a separate episode:
https://audioboom.com/posts/7991317-a-ski-podcast-special-latest-snow-news-from-around-the-alps

Thanks to Charlie Rees (Diavolezza), Andy Butterworth (Kaluma Travel, St Anton), Steve Angus (Val d’Isere), Keith Webb (Kaprun), Dave Burrows (Glacier 3000) and Luca Caruso (Cervinia)
Alex Armand runs Tip Top Ski Coaching in Les 2 Alpes
Lucy has been live reporting on the travel changes for The Telegraph
The situation re transit at Geneva airport ran and ran. Don’t forget to follow Skipedia on Twitter for real time updates on big issues such as this

https://twitter.com/skipedia/status/1465943758235750400

Lucy interviewed the French Minister of State for Tourism ("Closing is not an option
Nick is one of the founders of Maison Sport
Maison Sport is offering a refundable deposit on bookings made for this winter
Caroline Eliot was on the show in Episode 47
You can find out about her new book here
The new London Ski & Snowboard Festival will take place from 27-30 October 2022 at Evolution Battersea
Charlotte Bankes won silver in Snowboard Cross in China
Jon-allan Butterworth took 3rd in the Para Snowboard event at Landgraaf
You can listen to our interview with Jon-allan here:
https://audioboom.com/posts/7948841-a-ski-podcast-special-jon-allan-butterworth-paralympic-snowboarder

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