We had great weather while we were there. There was heaps of snow with a light sprinkling of fresh snow most nights. This is a picture looking back over St Anton village.
Nick on a chair over at Rendl.
After doing too much of this....
I decided I would try skiing again. My skiing days pre-date parabolic skis and thought it would be fun to try them again. It was like riding a bike - you don't forget how to ski and I didn't break any bones. Whew. However, after a couple of runs I was very sure I made the right decision to snowboard over the last 14 years.
The other thing we did was to go sledding in the empty fields near by the chalet. The first couple of days were a bit icy but some fresh snow on Christmas eve made it more viable.
This is Thomas with Chris and Brendan:
This is me on my first toboggan experience... it was great fun.
We left Austria this morning and came back to London to be faced with protests outside the Israeli embassy (I might've mentioned before that we live right near it). A blockade of police refused us entry from one end of our street so with police helicopters hovering and riot police arriving we walked around the corner to the other end of our street where Nick successfully negotiated our way into our apartment block. Fortunately, it's all dissapated now and from TV reports it was not a violent protest.
Anyway, I've got next week off and Mark and Wendy are arriving tomorrow for a last minute holiday. More updates soon!
