18/3/06 Skiing

Spent 4 days skiing at Bad Gastein. (look it up online, it's a fantastic place) The first 2 days mostly consisted of rolling down the hill with skis on. We are both covered in bruises, Gemma has a massive blue one on her bum! We even went for a lesson with a guy called Sven. We were both scared witless. The hostel was right across from the ski field, it was so beautiful.



Angertal was a diffierent place we found on day 3 which is a "kiddy" slope, a nice gentle incline of about 300m which we didn't fall over. We did have to dodge the children though. Some of them could ski better than us and they were barely old enough to walk! Getting on the ski-lift was fairly intereting. Gem stacked it (again) and they stopped the lift. The whole line of kiddies had to wait while the operater helped her get up. Very dignified! Had some well deserved breaks at the ski cafe, to drink lemonade and Jagertea (hot alcoholic drink). Here's Gem with Claire and Jeremy from the hostel (Hi guys if you see this site)