Four years ago we were talking to a Canadian friend who celebrated his son’s 16th birthday with a heli skiing trip. I remember thinking that was so amazing but we could never afford to do that. And yet yesterday that Read more…
It’s been a fun week of training with the focus at the beginning of the week on our ski development (read lots of bumps, moguls, using ski edges and a scary odd cliff) but also lots of carving, fast skiing Read more…
Wow, we have had a fun packed week. Training began on Monday and as there had been some snowfall overnight it was straight into off piste, between the trees and through moguls. The instructors call it “terrain assisted learning” but really Read more…
Jet lag and very disturbed sleep aside, our first few days in Pano have been amazing. We have been free to ease back into skiing while everyone else has been taking their Level 1 exams this week. There has been Read more…
Back in October/early November, things with covid started looking up and we started thinking about what we could do in 2022. We had ruled out a season in Bansko as they still had the borders shut to UK residents. Then Read more…
So I (Pete) turned 50 in Aug 21 !!!! I don’t feel any older, my sliding southwards belly might disagree !! So due to covid restrictions we have been quite happy to spend time on the Isle of man doing Read more…
Well after enjoying 9 months of no restrictions on The Isle of man – the inevitable sadly happened, Covid Returned…….. Queue a 2 week “circuit breaker”, a few weeks freedom and now Lockdown 3.0 which, it has to be said, Read more…
Pete here for his 3rd blog…. Well isn’t 2020 a weird old year ?!!? Tbh we are so glad we were travelling around the USA and Canada last year in the van rather than this year !!! That would have Read more…
So our prolonged stay on the Isle of Man has allowed us to catch up with lots of friends, do our hobbies and visit places we, shockingly, had never seen before. One such trip of mine was to a site Read more…
Great news! The Isle of Man has succeeded to have no new cases of Covid 19 for 28 days, therefore social distancing has now been totally removed. What does that mean? Well, I got to hug friends on Monday evening Read more…
After our two weeks of quarantine we eased into life in lockdown – the only difference being that we could go to the supermarket and deliver groceries for Pete’s parents and vulnerable neighbours. So not too much difference really. However, Read more…
I’m glad to say that we made it back to the Isle of Man, just one day before they closed the Manx borders to non-residents, two days before Easyjet stopped flying to the island and four days before they also Read more…
What a bizarre end to the season! After struggling for snow for most of the season we had started to enjoy the sunshine and spring temperatures. Teaching beginners was more like teaching water skiing but the social side was good. Read more…
We have been working now in Bansko for three months during which time we have each had two days off in total. Both of us have lost weight so the regime of at least six hours skiing and snowboarding a Read more…
No one likes to be poorly and it always seems worse away from home. Unfortunately in a holiday resort once a bug takes hold, it does the rounds pretty quick and just keeps spreading with all the new people arriving Read more…
So here we are two years on from both leaving “normal” jobs and trying out mad, crazy and fun life experiences – with the odd bit of work thrown in 😉 Difficult to summarise all that we’ve done so far, Read more…
Over the last few weeks Pete and I have had time to reflect over our new career choice and whether we have did the right thing two years ago in leaving secure jobs in the Isle of Man and following Read more…
So it is exactly a month since we started working at the ski school and to mark the occasion our boss gave Pete and I our first day off work. How amazing! It was just so lovely this morning to Read more…
Here’s a few things that have tickled us in the few weeks we’ve been in Bansko, Bulgaria. 1. In the gondola on the way to the slopes at 8:30am the other day and there’s a few instructors from other ski Read more…
We arrived, unpacked, stocked up on some required household items like lightbulbs and kitchen bits then collected uniforms, PR photos etc. We also took some time to try to find the quickest way to walk to work in the mornings Read more…
Storm Atiyah made for an eventful departure from the Isle of Man. It wasn’t just the usual “Blowin a hoolie”, it was gale force 9 with winds gusting up to 100mph. As we unloaded at the airport it took one Read more…
We have been back “On the Rock” for a whole month now and it has flown by. It has been lovely to catch up with friends and family, both here and in the UK. We went on a little reunion Read more…
As they say “All good things must come to an end” and that is the same for our amazing Canada and US trip. The wildlife, nature and lovely people have blown us away, and if we were young enough for Read more…
So it is my (Pete’s) second blog in 18 months !!! Why you ask? – well there’s 3 days left of the 6 month road trip so I’ve gone budget busting mad and been renting mountain bikes in Squamish and Read more…
We have spent the last few days trying to sell Fred, the tow hitch, the bicycle rack and bikes. It has been a bit stressful getting lots of messages of interest, sometimes stings of questions and answers and then radio Read more…