brunnen sunset

i live here! *pinches self*

spotted via the brunnen tourism page on facebook and taken by irene schmidt.

slalom skills

here i am on my fourth ever day of skiing practising my slalom skills on the nursery slopes of stoos. i managed a red run the day before with no falls but definitely think i need to keep learning the basics before i feel comfortable on the big runs. really really loving it though and it's so exciting to see what progress can be made in just a few hours. raffaele, of course, continues to be a wonderful teacher. we had a fantastic three days skiing when friends, sam and lucy, visited us from bristol and my parents arrive tomorrow for six days so we'll be up on the mountains lots more over the next coming week. i just LOVE swiss life!

piste life

today was one of the best days that i've had so far in switzerland. which, considering swiss life is bloody fantastic, is really saying something.

today i went skiing for the first time. it was *so* much fun. when i last lived here i didn't get on that well with snowboarding and was worried i wasn't cut out for piste life of course i have a lot to learn and i took some nasty falls today but i could really see how much progress i was making.

the weather was terrible and visibility was poor but this meant there were hardly any people on the piste which was perfect for me. so excited to go again. and again. and again...

here is a little video raffaele took of me. he was a brilliant teacher. really patient and often pushed me up the slope to ski back down before we thought i was ready for the lift.