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Tuesday 6 February – Be careful what you wish for

February 6, 2018 Xanthe Vail 2018

This morning the weather report said that we had 13 inches of snow in the last 24 hours, 8 of

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Monday 5 February – Beaver Creek

February 6, 2018 Xanthe Vail 2018

Today when we woke up the long awaited snow had arrived with gusto, looking out the window we couldn’t actually

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Sunday 4 February – Cross country day 4

February 4, 2018 Xanthe Vail 2018

When we set off for the golf club today Chris was full of optimism as we are going to do

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Friday 2 February – The start of the weekend

February 2, 2018 Xanthe Vail 2018

We have decided to give up on planning based on the weather forecast as they seem to change their minds

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Thursday 1 February – Snow Day

February 2, 2018 Xanthe Vail 2018

When we woke up this morning it was very overcast and the forecast was for snow all day so we

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Wednesday 31 January – Wheres the sun gone?

January 31, 2018 Xanthe Vail 2018

The forecast for today was partly sunny then snow tomorrow so we were keen to go out and ski as

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Tuesday 30 January – Sunshine and the bowls

January 31, 2018 Xanthe Vail 2018

The forecast for today was partly cloudy but it actually started off very sunny so we decided to head into

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Monday 29 January – back on the boards

January 29, 2018 Xanthe Vail 2018 2 comments

After two quite exhausting days of cross country today it was back to the Alpine skis and a form of

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Sunday 28 Jan – Cross country part two

January 29, 2018 Xanthe Vail 2018

Today we had a skate lesson booked we had a slightly earlier start but as it is a lot warmer

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Saturday 27 January – Let the hard work begin

January 28, 2018 Xanthe Vail 2018

Today we had booked in for a classic cross country lesson, thanks to our Christmas present from Mum and Dad.

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Friday 26 Jan – Let it snow

January 27, 2018 Xanthe Vail 2018

The promised snow definitely arrived today when we got up we couldn’t see the top of the mountain and on

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Thursday 25 Jan – Sun and empty slopes

January 25, 2018 Xanthe Vail 2018

The last few days have been very sunny but cold and we have explored a bit more of the town

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Monday Jan 22nd – Groomed slopes and sunshine

January 22, 2018 Xanthe Vail 2018

What a difference 24 hours makes, after the snow of yesterday today was forecast to be partly cloudy all day

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Sunday Jan 21st – Powder Day

January 21, 2018 Xanthe Vail 2018

The journey to Vail seemed to take a lot longer than the one to Breckenridge but it was probably because

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Thursday 7th December – Our final day in Innsbruck

December 7, 2017 Xanthe Innsbruck 2017

The overnight fog had come back this morning and we couldn’t see the church again but we decided to head

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Wednesday 6th December – to the mountains

December 6, 2017 Xanthe Innsbruck 2017

Today we had planned to go up the cable car but when we woke up there was a fog that

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Tuesday 5th December – Exploring Castles and Churches

December 5, 2017 Xanthe Innsbruck 2017

As it is still a little overcast today we decided to head up to the Castle and explore that first

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4th December 2017 – To Innsbruck

December 4, 2017 Xanthe Innsbruck 2017

A very early start which at least meant that we had a trouble free journey to the Airport followed by

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Friday 20th October – final bits of Boston

October 20, 2017 Xanthe New England 2017

Today we decided to go to Harvard as we hadn’t managed to make it last time we were here and

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Thursday 19th October – Full circle

October 20, 2017 Xanthe New England 2017

Another beautiful day which started with our now favourite breakfast in the local deli, this was followed by a walk

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Wednesday 18th October – Scenic Drives around the Mohawk Trail

October 18, 2017 Xanthe New England 2017

This morning we decided to go to our local deli for breakfast as they have seating at the grill where

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Tuesday 17th October – Stockbridge and the Shakers

October 17, 2017 Xanthe New England 2017

We woke this morning to clear blue skies but freezing temperature so much so that we actually put hat and

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Monday 16th October – the beginning of the end

October 16, 2017 Xanthe New England 2017

They say in New England if you don’t like the weather wait a minute which was definitely true in reverse

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Sunday 15th October – Around Woodstock

October 15, 2017 Xanthe New England 2017

It was a bit overcast today but has warmed up quite a lot so after breakfast we decided to walk

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Saturday 14th October – Woodstock via the Green mountains

October 15, 2017 Xanthe New England 2017

Today we are moving on to Woodstock, although I don’t think it was the one where the music festivals happened

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Friday 13th October – Vermont’s covered bridges

October 14, 2017 Xanthe New England 2017

We started today by having a quick walk round Stowe village as we haven’t don’t so yet, there isn’t actually

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Monday 9th October – Kancamagus Road and White Mountain National Forest

October 13, 2017 Xanthe New England 2017

Today’s weather forecast was for rain of varying strengths all day, at first we thought that they had got it

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Thursday 12th October – Around and above Vermont

October 13, 2017 Xanthe New England 2017

Today we should have got up at the crack of dawn and had a balloon flight but frost and high

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Wednesday 11th October – From one Ski resort to another

October 12, 2017 Xanthe New England 2017

Today we head to Stowe and decided to start the journey by re-doing the Kancamagus highway as it is not

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Tuesday 10th October – The road to the sky

October 10, 2017 Xanthe New England 2017

The rain that we had yesterday had blown itself out overnight and we woke to almost clear blue sky’s and

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