{"id":1474,"date":"2009-12-03T19:39:35","date_gmt":"2009-12-03T18:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/?p=1474"},"modified":"2009-12-08T22:34:09","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T21:34:09","slug":"thursday-3rd-december-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/?p=1474","title":{"rendered":"Thursday, 3rd December 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"float: right; border: 1px solid black; margin: 8px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/images\/031209.jpg\" title=\"View from Masella.\" \/>Skiiiiiing! First day of the snow season. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.masella.com\/?idioma=ING\" target=_blank> Masella<\/a> opened today and we went to collect our season passes and headed out into the white stuff. There&#8217;s only six kilometers open, but they&#8217;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!<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;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&#8230; if you can still see where you are going, you&#8217;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. <\/p>\n<p>On the way home we took a detour to the little village of Ventol\u00e1, which we&#8217;ve been meaning to go to for years. Great views and a nice place for a picnic and beer looking at the sunset.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/photo_galls\/031209\/index.html\"target=_blank> See photos of today.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s only six kilometers open, but they&#8217;ve been desperate to open the resort before this weekend, which is a puente (bridge). In typical Spanish style, when there is a public [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1474"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1504,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474\/revisions\/1504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}