Today I felt tip top and so was the weather! It’s the first time this week that we have had proper views of the mountains around Madonna di Campiglio and oh boy they are spectacular! The four of us headed up the mountain, skiing blue runs and enjoying the views of snowy mountains and trees with a backdrop of beautiful blue skies. This is the life!
We then took the Passo Groste gondola right up to the top, and skied some more lovely blues before the others went to ski to Pinzolo and I made my way back down to the village on the gentle run number 66. A bit too gentle actually; it was pretty flat at the bottom and I had to pole along for a bit. I skied Fortini a couple of times, had a coffee sitting outside in the sunshine at Rifugio Viviani taking in the spectacular views and then went for my ski lesson. I met the very friendly Andrea at the foot of the Fortini lift and after observing me ski he said "You are not too bad!" which thrilled me. The lesson was spent attempting to correct my posture by leaning my upper body towards the valley rather than the mountains. At one point when I got a bit mixed up Andrea said "You think too much!" I said, "My husband says that too!" to which Andrea replied "Of course! It is because you are a woman!" which I thought was very funny. The instruction was slightly different from last year, but its all good and I thoroughly enjoyed the hour. In fact Andrea lost track of the time and we ran a good ten minutes over, at which point he pointed me back towards the hotel and rushed off.
After drinks in the Bar Dolomiti in the village, Heather and I went for a swim and had a lovely chat while sitting in the jacuzzi area of the pool. Heather was able to find the button to switch on the jets, which I hadn't been able to find last time! Later was another huge and delicious dinner and we had a great laugh over all sorts of ridiculous topics including tv adverts of the 1970s.
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