Cold… Cold… Colder !

this is the photo of  a frozen UK , taken today by a NASA satellite today 7.1.10

White Christmas, White New Year’s Eve, White Everything!!!

I thought it was a hoax !!!

Holidaying in Bansko (update)

Last night we returned home from our ski trip to Bansko, Bulgaria.

As I mentioned on a previous post, I had no previous experience of skiing…or Bansko…

Thus, the first day, when we woke up, I looked outside the window of  our hotel room and I saw …

... a foggy Bansko

We left our hotel and drive to the top of one of the ski slopes of the resort, parked the car next to a cafe’-chalet and started wearing the ski gear – boots, skis and batons… the whole lot!

almost there...

When we realized that we were completely ski- incompetent … it was a bit late.

Marianna, by being more courageous, had a couple of ugly falls…

Ouch!

whereas I was rather scared even to wear the skis after realizing how slippery they were…

to wear them or not to wear them?

After a couple of hours I was really afraid of the skis, the boots were hurting my feet and my fibulae were red and almost burning. And all of these because we had to go downhill on a rather steep slope without the ability/quality of skiing. So we went downhill on foot (actually on ski boots) carrying the batons and the skis…for almost 1.5 km.

where the heck is the chalet???

Instead of embarking on this stupid and tiring feat, we could have spend our day staring at the beauty of the mountains…

the calmness within ...

When we finally reached the chalet, we had chicken soup, roast peppers salad and pickled vegetables, which we gulped together with two ice cold beers…and suddenly we forgot everything about our disastrous first attempt of skiing the slopes!!!

The next morning we need some help, and we asked for a ski instructor.

Katerina, our ski instructor was very helpful and VERY patient with her students… At the end of the day she was very proud of her new students !

Born to ski !!!

Look...No batons !

The last day we were able to ski among children, other newbies and pros… but we were not ready for a whole ski slope… maybe next time!

until then …

take a break !

Its Christmas…

merry Xmas

Merry Christmas and a very happy holidays to all of you, girls and guys, ladies and Gentlemen  …

a Xmas tree always seals the festivities...