Brrrrrrr

Yep, winter has arrived.... It's really cold now. Today at lunch time I've been X-country skiing and it was -9!!!! (Degrees Celsius). Pretty cold, especially with a bit of wind.... To be honest I am quite happy about it, it has been too warm. The loipes (X-countr trails) have suffered from the warm weather. Luckily we have also had some snow :) I think that the loipes will be recovered :)

I am keeping it short now because I have been working at a computer all day, and my neck is starting to hurt :(

More winter news later this week....

Snow shortage

Not that much has happened this week, winter still hasn't arrived in Davos yet. The forecast for tomorrow even says 'rain'. Really, how is this possible, rain in January! Luckily, rain in the valley means snow on the slopes, at least we can hope :) With a little luch we'll have nice slopes on Saturday woth some fresh snow. I am still counting on a huge dump of snow, but it better come soon :)

Yesterday I X-country skied to work. It wasn't as far as I expected, but it is very nice to ski to work in the morning :) In the evening I took the Bus to town because I could pick up my car from the garage. They did a good job on it, it is looking great :) The damage wasn't too bad in the end :)

Saturday evening i will go to Zug because Siebren will come back from his trip to Saigon, Singapore and Bankok. So, I am happy my car is fine again...

This afternoon I also went X-country skiing (I hate that word, I prefer 'langlauf'). I had a great time, but unfortunately, my favorite loipe was closed. OK, it wasn't really closed, but they hadn't prepared it for a while. I did a little bit of it, but it was really bad, with rocks sticking through the snow. I guess there just isn't enough snow to prepare them. All the other loipes were looking good though :) I may go again tomorrow at lunch if it doesn't rain......

Snowboard

Hmm, real winter hasn't come to Davos yet, it is warm, and there isn't much snow yet. But I have heard that other ski areas don't have any snow yet, so we are a littel lucky here. I've been snowbaording today for the third time after my bad crash of december 2005. I have tried at the end of last season, but that wasn't a great success. I have also tried three weeks ago, but that was horrible, the snow was hard, and I was scared and absolutely NOT relaxed. Today the snow was much softer and it went much better, and at the end of the day I even started to relax a bit. I even started to enjoy it a bit :) So, I am not giving up this year, I would like to get to my level of snowboarding I had before my crash :)

Not so good was the carcrash I had this week. I was lucky, I didn't get hurt, and my car seems to be OK. I will have it checked tomorrow at the garage, because I want to be sure it's ok before I take it for a longer drive. I'll find out tomorrow if something is wrong.

Last night Nora, Hanna, Sophie Esther and me went to pianobar for a 'girls night out'. It was lots of fun. Pianobar is one of my favorites, it usually is fun. For some reason it attracts different people than all the other bars here. Nora had brought her camera, but I don't have any of the pics yet, maybe tomorrow :)

New Year!

Happy New Year to all of you!!

London was great!! We've been back for almost a week now, so time for a new post on my BLOG. Unfortunately I don't have any pictures to show because my camera was acting funny again. YES, I will get a new one.... But not yet....

It was a great weekend, I have met Thomas, Vera, Reto and Vicki. Thomas and Reto are old friends of Siebren's. Reto was so kind to give us his appartment for the weekend. He had warned us that was tiny, but it was beautiful and not at all tiny.
New Year's eve we had very good Maroccan food and after we went bowling. Yes, Bowling, and it was fun! Siebren was really good at it, he won all the games... I have to say that I didn't do too badly either :)

The rest of the time we walked around a lot. We visited some markets and I wanted to go shopping a bit on the last day, but I couldn't find anything I liked, it turned out I wasn't really in a shopping mood.... The we decided to go to New Bond Street, I can't afford to buy anything there anyway. We also went to Harvey Nichols and Harrods :) (AbFab)

In the meantime Davos finally had some snow, but it is still a bit warm, so it is melting already. The forecast showed some snow for tonight, but not too much. I just hope it isn't going to rain. We'll see, I am sure there will be more snow at some point this year...

Also the preparations fro WEF have started... On the Talstrasse they have started putting up the fences, in two weeks, the whole of Davos will look like an army base... This also means I have to get a pass to get into my home (I live close to one of the major hotels where WEF people will stay), and a sticker for my car. At least it won't be very busy on the slopes then. During the X-mas vacation it was nice here, but also crazy busy...