We’ve booked a bed in each of five alpine huts in Austria. We plan to complete a good portion of the hut to hut Berliner Hohenweg in September this year.
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It is a little remiss of us that we haven’t been to the Lake District for over 10 years! Friends were planning a week in Ambleside, so we invited ourselves along.
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If it is feeling a little chilly outside Canederli Dumplings, a specialty in the Dolomites, are truly irresistible. This is Paula’s cheese version.
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Skiing isn’t just about legs. Planks with attitude help strengthen core and the muscles in your shoulders, elbows and wrists stabilising your body.
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As regular skiers in Austria and being keen hikers in the Tirol and the Dolomites, it is strange that we’d not been hiking in the Julian Alps of Slovenia.
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All of us want to get through the ski-season, and indeed life, without suffering pain or injury. It makes sense to spend time focussed on our strength, balance and flexibility. Try Single Leg Squats.
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When out walking in the UK, or out skiing, take a flask of barley soup, it is always warming and great to have outside. This soup is cheap to make but is wholesome and delicious.
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As knees give out. And you can’t ski without knees. Dead leg lifts strengthen hamstrings to support your knee ligaments and protect your joints.
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Post Easter, hot cross buns are still on the supermarket shelves so this is a great recipe when you are a bit bored with simply toasting them and spreading them with butter.
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We went to watch ‘Free Solo’ at the cinema the other day. Does anyone else think that Alex Honnold is a bit like Big Bang’s ‘Sheldon Cooper’?
