Sauze d'Oulx skiing

As always at the end of January, we headed to Italy for our ski week, and were in for quite a surprise. We had heard that the snow was good but had not quite appreciated "how good" until we arrived. They had 2m of snow outside our hotel just prior to Christmas and another 60cm a few days before we arrived.

The next day was spectacular, as was the rest of the week and the skiing was unbelievable.

They had made a great job of digging the lifts out!

And Adele was in her element...........

One day we took the gondala across to Sestriere and skiied the mens Olympic downhill slope, this is the view from about 2/3 the way down

And of course, we had Roger to keep an eye on us!

Which was often needed at apres ski! This is how they introduce the next round of Grappa shots!

We headed to Turin to stay on Friday night before our early flight home on Saturday. Just in time to stumble across the start of the "historique" Monte Carlo Rally. Hundreds of classic rally cars with aged crews out for a good time!

And then we finished off the week with dinner at Tre Galline, a Turin landmark.



So now it's home to detox......