David Coats Blog

This weekend was fantastic - even though Southampton lost. I’d just about got over the worst of my bout of the Flu, but it was a little tainted by coughs, snotty nose and hot flushes. I ended up getting the train to Manchester and staying on my own in a hotel after Jonno dropped out […]

I arrived back from France (well Turin in Italy) on Sunday evening, around 9pm, absolutely shattered. I’d forgotten how difficult winter holidays are - such opposing feelings. The adrenaline and excitement of throwing oneself down a frozen mountain, strapped to two planks of wood, is incredible. Yet the physical pain in ones body, the mental […]

Jeudi 4/1
Thursday was probably the best day of skiing. No getting lost, no injuries, lovely powder and great piste conditions. Alex and I got separated from Tom and Will somehow and spent the day around the Grand Serre, Aravet and Cassa du Boeuf runs. The Aravet and Martinue Blue and Green runs back to the […]

Tom and I are sat on our Edinburgh bound BA Boeing 737 at Gatwick, looking out at the backsides of the other planes, wondering what the hell was the small hole exuding a noticeable heat shimmer? The best we could come up with was that it was the vent from the ovens which heat the […]

Autumn has finally arrived in Northern Europe. Switzerland was grey, windy and rainy all weekend. However, the journey back from Bern to Geneva Airport was beautiful. So many fantastic colours across the sparsly populated, densly forested land. The Train took me through the Bernese Oberland to Geneva via Fribourg and Romont, a string of snow […]