End of January means off again for
a week of skiing and a week of holiday. Not
wanting to break a winning formula it was a return to Munich for couple of days
before heading up into the Austrian Alps and the little ski village of
Hinterglemm.
Normally before we go Andrew periodically
checks the snow reports and we hope for a few good dumps of snow so he will
have a good base. This year it had
snowed almost continuously since New Year and the reports of exceptional
snowfalls were making the BBC as the highest falls in 30 years. This year the concern was not if there would be enough snow, rather it was would there be too much.
It was -10C, and snowing, but we braved the extremes and went shopping and generally easing ourselves back into European routines. We revisited a couple of our standard restaurant and ate excessive amounts of meat.
Early on Saturday
we picked up our car for the next two weeks and started off. A journey of 230km and it should take just
under 3 hours. The falling snow, combined with it
being Saturday change-over day in ski-accommodation, extended the travel time to
5 hours.
We stopped off at the Reidel glass factory outlet store in Kufstein, just over the border in Austria. While the prices were good, we refrained from buying.
We took the “back-road” from Kufstein to Hinterglemm and the effects of the massive snows were still evident in the high banks of snow along the roadside. In one place the graded road was down to a single lane.
We stopped off at the Reidel glass factory outlet store in Kufstein, just over the border in Austria. While the prices were good, we refrained from buying.
We took the “back-road” from Kufstein to Hinterglemm and the effects of the massive snows were still evident in the high banks of snow along the roadside. In one place the graded road was down to a single lane.
We returned
to our previous accommodation at Anna Apartments and got Andrew issued with
skies and a ski pass for 5 days of 7. The
snow was good, the weather generally favorable with a couple of brilliant blue
sky days.
Andrew had
a couple of technical problems out on the slope including getting his phone so cold he couldn’t
take any photos. On another day a very sad face came
home, saying he had lost his phone.
Luckily, as he stripped off his clothing layers it was discovered that it had slipped out of his pocket and had spent the morning caught up in the sleeve of his
jersey. A new security bag was devised
for him to eliminate that problem.
For the
skier, it was a enjoyable, but hard week on the slopes. For the worker, it was a constructive week
ploughing through some data.
Now we were off for a week driving through Czech Republic. Apparently the country has changed its name to Czechia – but there hasn’t been a huge amount of public acceptance of that – an article from The Guardian in October 2016
Now we were off for a week driving through Czech Republic. Apparently the country has changed its name to Czechia – but there hasn’t been a huge amount of public acceptance of that – an article from The Guardian in October 2016
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