Just a bit of a test before the real trip begins... Christmas 2005 was spent in Switzerland with a fantastic bunch of people falling down mountains, eating and drinking a too much. A quick run down on my take on our activities Cross-country ski-ing - just as I'd always thought, an impossible way to go down hill, hard work going uphill and not that great on the level either - best avoided. Snow-shoeing - a great way to get round, through or on top of the countryside. Tobogganing - highlight of my trip. A 3.5km adrenalin rush down to the bottom of the hill, stopping best done with feet, or just bail out. Curling - definitely an old peoples' sport, bowls on a slippy surface. Ice skating - best left to the young and mad, seems
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