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Monday, January 25, 2010

Saalbach, Hinterglemm, Austria,..

Excellent skiing, excellent apres-ski, accommodation very nice, and very very helpful. 2 days snow, 2 days sun and 2 murky days. Lots of wonderfully naff stomping apres ski songs from germany austria and holland - cant get them out of my head.
The Hinterhaglem - was an experience and skiing at night in the dark. The Pension was very nice indeed, and the owner Kevin took us out 2 days guiding us round the pistes which was great. Ok the snow could have been better, and the blue run to the door was closed but hell we were apres-skiing it on the other side.
On the chefs night off we missed the tobaganning down from a restaurant in the hills since we left it a bit late.
Sadly 2 zipper handles on my ski jacket broke, so paper clips were used as handles after serving me for 6 years its time to retire it.
A resort and the pension "Ezian", I certainly intend to return to in the future. Ah the songs are on youtube....

Monday, January 04, 2010

Hamburg via Ryanair Hamburg(Lubeck)

A couple of days in hamburg for new years or Silvester as they call it.
A whistle stop tour, hard to find hotel, helpful German girl on the bus and strange green german guy giving us wrong directions, fairly cold, lots of Currywurst .
Jeepers they are mad for their fireworks, the whiff of sulphur stinging.
A boat trip(without marko who was feeling the affects) on the Thursday round the port, massive, very industrial an engineers dream so del was happy. the hot chocolate. Overall not as enjoyable as my previous times in hamburg even if i was only passing through it was summer and more to do.
Arrived home in mother Ireland to SNOW.