I remembered the very first time I was eaten alive by mosquitos, started cursing in front of my boyfriend, sweating so much that the copious amounts of mosquito repellent burned my eyes alive. And having my own personal glacial lake for a night. I remembered being told things I learned in kindergarten: Seriously just One step at a time. Mind over matter. You can do it. Hell, you can do anything. My heart is pounding so fast, am I going to go into cardiac arrest while I brace myself against this pine tree? Twenty years on this Earth and I was [View Full Entry]

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Hello Hello from Espana!! Quite an experience coming to Spain- big culture shock from Whistler to Sierra Nevada. Here is updates on the skiing: World Cup Ski Cross: -Thursday:On the training day I had quite the fall- I went to double 2 rollers and landed on one foot, buckling and landing on my left side, my elbow and corking thing above my knee, grazing and bruising my left knee also. Was hustled down to the medical center with suspected fracture, luckily the X-Ray was clear. -Friday:The day was supposed to be more training, and the qualification race. Unfortunately the weather p [View Full Entry]

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Travel blog 15 Stayed until 5th at Conil to take advantage of discount for long stay. 20 euros a night for up to 11 nights and then 14 euros a night - quite a difference. Tuesday, 5th February Said goodbye to Dick and Joan, our neighbours who we will miss, but whom we hope to catch up with again on our travels. Headed back down N340 toward Marbella on same route we took previously to Gibralter. Stopped en-route for lunch and arrived at Marbella Playa early afternoon and were delighted to be met by Jenny and Tony, our old neighbours from [View Full Entry]

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After Christmas and Boxing day came and went, we packed up our little rental car and headed out to the Sierra Nevada to enjoy a few days brushing up our (lack of) snow boarding skills. Sierra Nevada certainly was very different to the ski resorts in Austria. Definitely not as pretty, quite a different experience to be driving out to a ski resort, passing olive trees and cactus on the way! Unfortunately, the slopes were absolutely packed on our first day and not all the runs were operational so the learner slopes were covered in people in various stages of control! [View Full Entry]

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Hola from Spain! Hope all is well back at home. Here is our latest update! After leaving Italy we travelled very quickly through France and arrived on the South coast of Spain. Stopped over in Loret de Mar on the Costa Brava (like Blackpool) and then tried to stopover in Benidorm (James wanted some fish and chips!) unbelievably ALL the campsites were FULL! Full of Brits and Germans on longstays, eventually we found a place in between Benidorm and Alicante (we discovered why the sites fill up most offer 60% plus discounts of stays over 28 days.) We then had a [View Full Entry]

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I am offically a badass snowboarder chick. Last Saturday I took off with a couple of my friends to the Sierra Nevada mountains to give snowboarding a shot. I've been a skiier (not a very good one) since I was 11. My friend Mike promised to give me free lessons if I went along with him, so Carla and I decided to join Matt and him on their escapade to the mountains. We took a bus, and it only took us 40 minutes to get to a small tourist town in the mountains. It was an absolutely gorgeous day. I didn't [View Full Entry]

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Well, if for some reason I wasn't coming across as random enough for you up until now, then get a load of this! Some American girls I met at the hostel, in passing comment mentioned that they'd met a 'friendly hippie' at the markets who invited them to come and stay at a commune up in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. They didn't really know much else about it apart from the mud map this guy had drawn them, and they didn't really seem too serious about the idea. However, as if by some cosmic destiny, I had, at that [View Full Entry]

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