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Winter Fun in Falls Creek

Hi all,

that took a bit longer now to write up but I uploaded pictures already a while ago :)

Two weeks ago, I went with my friends Nadja and Fahad for a weekend in the snow! Yeah, you won’t believe it there is something called the Australian Alps and it’s enough snow there to ski/snowboard.

This weekend was particularly interesting not only for the idea of skiing in Juli and in Australia but also because Fahad, our desert boy, never had seen snow in his life so far! There is only to say so much: HE LOVES SNOW! Now.

Well, to start at the beginning, on Thursday night we picked up our car, which was a huge 4WD Nissan Patrol (I was not very happy with that car though Nadja and Fahad loved it, well therefore, Nadja did most of the driving …). We wanted to rent some snow chains (because we are going up the mountains and there WILL BE snow. Well, what Avis told us was that we don’t get any chains and actually we are not allowed to drive over snow anyway – why do you have 4WD if you are not allowed to drive on snow?!?!?

Then, Friday morning, I picked the two up and at 9am we were on our way out of town … the Victorian country-side is beautiful, even in winter. It’s definitely worth taking the drive to Falls Creek rather than taking the plane. On our way we passed through the King Valley were we stopped at two excellent vineries to have lunch, some tastings and buy heaps ;) we ended up buying 38 bottles of wine – the only reason it was not more is that I knew I can’t buy because of leaving Melbourne I three weeks.

After renting some chains in the valley (even though we didn’t use them, to use the road up the mountain you have to have them with you) we arrived later this afternoon in Falls Creek and got a shared apartment in the Country Club (the only thing being elite besides the name was the premium price). Nadja and I convinced Fahad that it is easier to learn snowboarding. So, the next day, we got our rental gear and headed up the mountain – Nadja and Fahad with their boards and me with skis. I was very nervous as I was not sure how my skiing skills would turn out to be after not skiing for more than 15 years! But, everything went really well, my skiing skills turned out to be far better than expected and I was even able to keep up with Nadja who snowboards really well. :)

We had two beautiful days of winter fun and on Monday morning we headed back to Melbourne, arriving just in time for our Negotiations class which we definitely didn’t wanna miss.

So, that’s it about skiing in July! Skiing in Australia! We’ll definitely do it again! :)))
B.

posted by Birgit im Abenteuerland @ 9:53 pm