Ski Instructors Report 9 March 2013

I did not send a report last week as I was in England for an eye appointment. The weather in England could be best described as “gloomy”. It did make me realize how fortunate I am to be able to spend my winters in Andorra. We had some wet weather this week but we also had some lovely days. Some days it rained in the village with snow on the mountain. My group this week was what we call “dry slope/advanced beginners.” Some had just been on a dry slope and some had previously skied, some in Bulgaria and found that they had not improved as much as they would have liked. They all made great progress during the week, except one lovely young lady, who chose to overdo the Pub Crawl and failed to arrive for Tuesday’s lesson. On Monday she was one of the best in the group but on her return to the class on Wednesday, she was amazed at the progress the others had made. She tried very hard to keep pace with the others but was exhausted after two hours and retired from the class. I was very sad at this, as I am happy to travel at the speed of the slowest in the group. (I get paid by the hour not the miles traveled) She was such a nice lad and she did not want to slow down the others. (The second slowest lady in the group pleaded with her to stay.) Alas to no avail. The moral of this story is: do not overdo your après ski to an extent that you miss a day’s skiing. Yes, please enjoy your evenings but remember you can get drunk in Norwich, or any other English town, but you cannot ski the mountains there. The end of the season is in sight, four more weeks, so we have fewer guests. This makes the après ski a little quieter, however my nights out have all been very jolly. Karaoke in the Derby was fun, Elvis entertained the crowd in the Quo Vadis, Mike had a very enjoyable evening in the Palarine on Thursday, Semipro were as raucous as ever in El Cau and the Velvet Blues played brilliantly in Bogart’s albeit to a small audience. Some of the hotels are offering great end of season deals to the independent traveler. So if you fancy an inexpensive end of season jolly, get in touch with the hotels direct.