Alagna & Como Italy- March'10

Late March signalled our last chance to get some skiing in before the scorching summer sun washes over the northern hemisphere (some wishful thinking clearly!). A group of 7 of us (excluding Nadia because she 'doesn't ski' and 'its cold') headed to Italy to for a weekend of skiing. We flew out of Luton and into Milan and hired a people mover to get to Alagna which is a small skiing town approximately 2 hours drive from Milan. The weather over the weekend was not great with visibility low, this combined with a large night drinking on house red wines (8 euro for a litre) meant that our second day of skiing turned into a casual drive to Lake Como.

Above- the chairlift was about 200 metres away from our chalet which then had access to a number of lifts which could take us all over and across the mountain.

The view from the chalet balcony looking down the tiny town of Alagna. Brilliantly just to the left of this photo there is a trail that finishes so you can literally ski your last run, kick your boots off and be at your chalet, which is exactly what we did.

Olly, Leah and Greg contemplate then next run.

Olly and Hutchy in the gondola up the mountain. This one is similar to the skyline gondola in Queenstown but they also have very large cable cars that carry over 50 people at one time.

The video shows some of Olly's skiing prowess!

Hutchy and Peta frolicking on the mountain. More likely that Peta had taken time to stop and pick James up after another fall.

The drive to Como took us over some lovely terrain, some of it seemed completely off the beaten track - we found out were off the beaten track as the sat nav had taken us somewhere completely random.

Lake Como was very pretty, some of the houses on the lakeside had to be seen to be believed. Apparently Como is a bit of a celeb hangout as well, but alas no papping over this weekend.