Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from February, 2018

We're all going on a...winter holiday!

It's that time of year again, folks. The time of year when the green lady graces Northern Europe with her presence. You guessed it! My current obsession is with the Aurora Borealis. Actually, who am I kidding, I have been obsessed since I heard it existed! Having bargained with Brad, using a week of skiing as a sweetener, we booked a trip to Finnish Lapland via Austria for another shot at seeing the Northern Lights. First, we flew off to Ellmau Ski Resort in Austria, where Brad spent four days laughing at my skiing skills.... Not really, he was very supportive! I got off to a really good start by thanking the ski hire staff for their help and walking straight out of the store with ski boots on - without my skis. In the end, I was pretty stoked with my progress, having skied only once before in Andorra a year previously. Sure, there were five year olds whizzing past me at lightning speed, but you can't let that dishearten you....much. Allll smiles until I saw the ...