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.  Intersport Ski Hire Discount Code Save money on your ski hire by using the code ‘SKIPODCAST’ at intersportrent.com, or simply take this link for your discount to be automatically applied at the checkout. 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 Don't forget you can always buy me a coffee at buymeacoffee.com/theskipodcast. All cuppas are much appreciated. I also enjoy all feedback about the show, so please do email to [email protected]