How about a year in Italy?: Sestriere...week 2 of school holis

Wine, fondue and very important discussion in Mont Ginevre

School's back, 2 weeks in the mountains has been fantastic and the kids have been loving skiing, especially Charlie who has been enamored by all his ski instructors who have an amazing knack of being truly spectacular with children. Sammy has had a ball too, but a nasty cough and an unfortunate venture down a black run to collect member of his ski-school's ski pole had him looking pretty happy to hang up the ski boots for a bit of a rest.

We were so lucky to have temperatures on par with Victorian ski fields, around 4 degrees and full sun. We also had a fantastic apartment that our friend's sister's parents had lent to us for the week, it was really incredible, even with it's own coffee machine thank you very much.

The boys had ski school every morning from 10 - 1pm for 5 days which meant Shane and I got away for a ski for about 2 hours, even a couple of lessons with Christian, the ski instructor recommended to us by our friend, Simon. I have to say I think I skied worse after those lessons, probably because I'm so used to skiing badly. Only one big fall to speak of and no broken bones later, we are skiing with our kids at the end of the week, and this is the most rewarding moment of all, especially seeing Charlie taking Sammy over the jumps on our last run on the way to the car.