The Resort
Courchevel 1850 is ‘the place’ to enjoy a luxury ski vacation. Boasting the largest skiable area in the world, Courchevel is one of the hottest ski destinations. This high altitude glacial resort is situated in the guts of Les Trois Valles. It is both the highest and the largest of the 5 resorts, offering a chic blend of luxury ski holidays, shops and stylish restaurants and bars.
Courchevel shares Les Trois Valles skiing area with Courchevel 1650, Courchevel 1550, Courchevel Le Praz 1300 and La Tania. Courchevel 1650 better known as ‘Sunny Moriond’ thanks to being washed in sunshine from most of the day, is the second highest of the villages. It is an attractive old town crammed with eateries serving Savoy specialties and is conveniently just a short gondola ride away from Courchevel 1850. Courchevel 1550 and Courchevel Le Praz 1300 and La Tania are charming and peaceful resorts nestled between fir and pine woods. Skiers are spoilt for choice as the Les Trois Valles area offers in depth and varied terrain across its 5 resorts.
Famous for great skiing Courchevel also offers a variety of aprs-ski activities. The epitome of luxury and elegance there could be over 100 shops with well-liked brand names and famous artwork in its art studios. Other activities include snow shoeing, snowmobiling, ice-karting and tobogganing.
There are many ski faculties, all with classes for youngsters and ESF runs Le village des Enfants for non skiing and skiing children ( advisable to book in advance ).
On the Snow
The well groomed Courchevel ski area promises fantastic skiing with 600km of slopes, 189 lifts, 1932 hectares of slopes and 24,711 acres of off-piste skiing and snow trustworthiness from xmas thru to mid April.
whether or not you are a noob or professional skiers, all capabilities are catered for at the resort. There are glorious beginner slopes in both 1850 and 1650, as well as challenging off-piste couloirs with some highly tricky black runs set to test even the most experienced. Ski between Courchevel’s four villages, or head further out to Meribel and other resorts inside Les Trois Valles. During top weeks, you may want to head for the quieter slopes of Courchevel 1650 or the satellite resort of La Tanis, avoiding the more crowded highwaies of Les Trois Valles.
For snowboarders there is the snow park at Le Plantrey, the canyon and dunes of Les Verdons and the hoops at Biolley. And it’s not difficult to get around on your luxury ski vacation using the modern lifts, with some great free-riding available.
If you enjoy traveling and would like to read more on some of the most famous places in the world, visit famouswonders.com and also check out Le Puy-en-Velay France.
The Titanic
The Titanic story
The Titanic was first constructed in 1909 and completed in 1911.It took The Titanic two hours and forty minutes to sink,after hitting the Iceberg at 11:40pm on the night of April 14 1912.
After the iceberg was spotted by lookouts, warnings were sent to the bridge, and an attempt to turn and reverse The Titanic went wrong, ending in a collision between the right side of the ship and the iceberg. There were 2228 people on board of The Titanic, 337 in first class, 285 second class, 721 in third class and 885 crew members.Of the 2,228 passengers and crew members who set sail, only 705 Titanic passengers survived.
The captain of the The Titanic was Edward John Smith and was 62years of age,Smith was married Eleanor and they had a young daughter Helen Meville.