7th January 2025

Up super early to meet our Uber at 4.45 and our fast train at 5.35am.

Today is a travel day and don’t we all love those?
But we are excited as we’re heading to the mountains for the week to do a spot of skiing, ( I’m not skiing, the body is bit old and achy these days for that) 
oh that’s right we are going to a conference too because it’s all about being educated.

Fairly uneventful train ride, travelling at 250k an hour was cool but dark outside for most of the trip.
Stops through Florence and Bologna before arriving in Venice mestre.
Usual confusion in a strange place trying to find the next connection plus it’s raining and that just makes everyone annoyed.



Not the prettiest of places.

Finally on the Flixbus headed to the mountains. Thankfully also non eventful, having us arrive in Cortina d’ amprezzo at lunch time.









Out of the bus straight onto melted snow, very slippy. Bad decision with the shoe choice this morning.
Slipped my way down to the restaurant for lunch where I could change into something more appropriate.
Great restaurant, looks likes it’s been here a long time.





We are still not at our endpoint for the day but we will be once a shuttle takes us right up the mountain to Villa Argentina where we will stay for the week being educated.
Apart from the education, it looks like quite a nice place to ski.😊







Settled into this lovely apartment in the hotel, so there is lots of room for the 4 of us.even has lounge room.





Next step is to get everyone’s ski kit organised, then it’s conference welcome drinks followed by really nice dinner. 
All very late by now, so it’s off to bed so everyone is ski ready in the morning.

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