I'm dreaming of a white... week-end!

The weather has been so cold in France in the last month that all mountains became completely white and the ski station were overbooked.

Fortunately I live only 2h away from the mountains so when Romain arrived at the train station Saturday morning with a 15 min delay, we hurried up to be on time for the departure of our coach: direction Isola 2000!!!

3h later (the time to rent the skis and buy the afternoon tickets to go up the mountains), we were all dressed up with our wonderfull coloured skisuits, ready to slide down the trails.
It has been 10 years that I haven't skied so I was a bit affraid to go at the beginning but Romain had decided for me: he wanted to start with a blu trail. "I don't think that's a good idea..." said I, but Romain didn't let me the choice and in less time than expected I found myself in the middle of a flow of skiers.

I was happily surprised to see that I remembered quite well the ski lessons I had from my uncle and my cousin Luca 10 years ago as I manoeuvred quite well the skis.

In a whole afternoon I fell only 3 times and it wasn't the kind of fall you normally want to forget because it ashames you.
We ended the afternoon having done almost all the trails of the station and going from a green trail to a blu and even a couple of red ones!

It was really great and I loved it!

European Tour: London - 5 days

- Do you want a cup of tea?
- Yes, please. I would highly appreciate it.

31.12.08: Leaving for London with Cécilia!!!
To sum all up: G-R-E-A-T!!!!

Visits: Madame Tussaud's Museum, British Museum, Harrods (Cécilia still can't realize the sales there while I can't realize how many people were fighting for a perfume!), London Eye, Big Ben, Westminster Abbaye (from the outside as it was too expensive for us), London Bridge, Tower of London, Saint Paul's Cathedral, Sherlock Holmes Museum (well, just the shop actually, but I bought the first book of his adventures!!!)


Walks: Hyde Park, Kensington Gardens, Regent's Park (we even got locked in!!), Trafalgar Square, Oxford Street (for shopping obviously!!), Westminster Bridge, Portobello Road.


Food and drinks: Starbucks Coffee (first time for Cécilia), hot dogs (all included!!), Claridge's (4 stars hotel where we had a "high tea", very posh tradition. We were really embarassed at the very beginning but after a couple of minutes, we started being really at ease!), Pasta Hut and Pizza Hut, Ice Bar.

Cécilia fell in love with London and I went through a lot of memories.
We came back with more than 600 pictures and 52 films. That's a good summary! :)