Skiing Memories

With a week's worth of browsing the website looking for villas for our skiing customers, it got us all reminiscing about our own experiences on the slopes... the clear white snow disappearing past your feet, the cool breeze on your face, and the beautiful view all around - time on the slopes is a contradiction of both exhilarating and calming experience for anyone who graces them.

Skiing is a truly enlightening experience and one that some of us have been lucky enough to have experienced. Recently, Tom and Ant from the Global Premier Villas team were lucky enough to re-visit the slopes of France with a group of friends - a trip that caused me great envy as I have not had the fortune since I was fourteen years of age. Saying that, my weeks on the Vermont snow scene were eventful if nothing else - quickly changing me from a graceful snow angel the one moment to a tumbling ball of snow the next!

On one occasion, I can remember starting an elegant decent down the slopes of Killington mountain, quickly zigzagging down on my way. Unfortunately, my friend (who had not yet mastered any manoeuvre apart from the classic "snow plough") went out of control and into my path - being a beginner myself as well, I was not skilled enough to avoid impact. And so it was to be that (rather ungracefully) I smacked right into my friend, knocking us both off of our skis and tumbling down the mountain... over soft snow, harder wood, and even harder rocks! I cannot remember much after this, as least to say I had my senses knocked out of me - but the next thing I knew I was flying down the slopes on a ski ambulance/ toboggan, which was causing me more concussion than the crash itself! I was fine - nothing broken but my price (and a thumping headache from the ambulance ride!!!) ... the only regrettable result of the whole fiasco was the unfortunate election of me as "Dope of the day" on the school trip... leading to me having to wear a rather ridiculous hat (that stood what must have been a mile high in the air) for the duration of the trip!

Whilst to all of you out there who are reading this it might seem trivial, embarrassing, or just a really long blog post... this is one of those memories that will live on with me always. Skiing is a remarkable experience; from the community and surroundings to the tumbles you take on the way. That is why I hold this week's campaign important - hopefully someone else out there might see our villas and venture out to experience a winter paradise of their own - with their own memories in the making to take through life with them.

So, if nothing else, I hope that those of you who read my blog this week, will finish it, look into your own past holidays with a smile... and remember those memorable moments of your own.

Thank you for reading, Vicki from the Global Premier Villas team.