Skiiiiiing! First day of the snow season. Masella opened today and we went to collect our season passes and headed out into the white stuff. There’s only six kilometers open, but they’ve been desperate to open the resort before this weekend, which is a puente (bridge). In typical Spanish style, when there is a public holiday on a Thursday or Tuesday, they deem it not worth going into work in the in between day, so they make that a holiday as well. Tuesday is a holiday, so a long weekend all round. Hooray!

They’ve done a good job of making the most of what they have, so the runs that are open are pretty ones and we had a lovely day. We were a little cautious on the first run. By the second I got used to leaning forward again, by the third I was bending my knees to the required extent and by the fourth I was back to my old ways… if you can still see where you are going, you’re not going fast enough. Geoff managed only to fall over when he was trying to sit down in the coffee bar, so that was a result. Great fun all round.

On the way home we took a detour to the little village of Ventolá, which we’ve been meaning to go to for years. Great views and a nice place for a picnic and beer looking at the sunset.

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