Setting off for the Slopes

Setting off for the Slopes

Hailing from the sunny climbs of Northern England, skiing isn’t a sport I was particularly into as a kid. In fact, it’s only been the last two years that I’ve started watching it and that was basically to appease my Polish friends. However, after a few goes on a local dry ski slope, I’ve really started to enjoy it and am ready to give it a go on the proper slopes. So, where to go? I’ve visited Zakopane before and have even trekked over the border to the Czech town of Harrachov, although…Czytaj dalej …

Everybody has their own New Year traditions and one of our family favourites is holding hands and belting out ‘Auld Lang Syne’ after the bells strike midnight. Of course anyone else standing nearby is welcome to join in (sometimes they have no choice!) even if they don’t know all the words. 
Written by Robert Burns back in 1788, the poem (which roughly translates into ‘Long Long Ago’) is perhaps one of the most famous to come out of Scotland and a number of different versions exist to this day. Nowadays, singing the song…Czytaj dalej …