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#36: Marathon Troubles
What’s the thing that is most likely to stop you from completing the race you signed up for? For us, it has to be pretty extreme. Sadly, however, extreme is exactly what has happened. Tom managed to fall while going along slowly on the flats on his skis and bust his knee. While we waited… Read more
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#35: Palafou – fancy a sledge down a mountain on a ski piste?
We should probably have known what to expect when one of the top reviews on TripAdvisor was a 1* with the comment “so dangerous, how is this allowed?” Nevertheless, this did not stop us from embarking on a 3km run down a mountain on a children’s sledge. You go to the bottom of the Palafour… Read more
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#34: Run update: 2hrs 828m ascent
Back home in the Alps after a good Eurotrip, we face our altitude marathon training once more. On a Sunday morning at 6.30am, we set off in -10. In all honesty, we could not have been much less enthusiastic to go, but as always, we dragged each other out the door and started out. Usually,… Read more
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#33: Why there’s no point visiting northern Italy in February.
Maybe you have Verona or Milan as a future February half term destination? Are you picturing rolling hills, views across valleys, some winter sunshine? We’re here to tell you that it’s probably not worth it. It only needs a short article really to tell you why… THE SMOG! We drove the entire way across the… Read more
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#32: A quick stop off in Austria (for a catch up and a ski)
One of the joys of keeping in touch with old friends is that when they move away, you can go to visit! When we drove from Italy through to Slovenia, we’d driven by Villach, which rang a bell as one of Eliza’s friends from school had moved there years ago. Once we’d driven past (stupidly)… Read more
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#31: Bratislava: an underrated gem!
You know when people ask you about your favourite place you’ve ever visited? Do you think it’s the place itself or the experiences you have their that have the biggest impact on your reflective feelings on a place? Either way, we would have been content in Bratislava as it gave us both – both family… Read more
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