A Weekend in Bardonecchia

The I Larici Hotel, Bardonecchia

Just before the Christmas holidays we took our little one for a weekend on the snow up in the Italian ski resort of Bardonecchia which is right on the border with France in the north western corner of Italy.As is my wont, I took the odd photo or three, so here are a few.  Others can be found … [Read more...]

Roccaraso Ski Video

Off the skied piste resort Roccaraso is somewhere I've already written about, so I thought you might like to see the Roccaraso ski slopes in all their snowy glory, seeing as it is the time of the year when people are thinking about booking ski holidays.Hope you like the video! … [Read more...]

Roccaraso Ski Resort, Abruzzo, Italy – Skiing off the beaten piste.

Roccaraso in Abruzzo, Italy

I have several friends from the south of Italy, but I was rather surprised to learn that one of them, Ciro, is an avid skier, who spent his ski holidays not far from Naples.I imagined that he must have made annual pilgrimages for ski holidays to northern Italy to learn to do his thing.  He … [Read more...]

Downhill fun

Time for another entry, seeing as the on-line supermarket seems to be off-line at the moment. It very nicely waited until I had shoved everything into the on-line shopping trolley and told it what time I wanted everything to turn up, and it suddenly took umbridge at the fact that I wanted to pay … [Read more...]