Last weekend I went with Nicolò for a weekend in Cortina D'Ampezzo to visit the family. It was beautiful weather all weekend and great skiing!
We took the train to Venice and then took a car up to Cortina, which was about a 6 hour trip total (we stopped to visit my older aunt in Bassano on the way...). There we stayed in Zenone's apartment with Paola, and had dinner with Nicolò's cousin Stefano and his daughter Yiara.
Saturday we got up early to go skiing at Tufana, one of the two big mountains you can ski there, (I of course snowboarded) but the skiing was great, the snow is really dry and fluffy, much different from the snow on the west coast. We skiied with Nicolò's friends Filippo and Zuppi, who were all great skiiers. It was a long day of skiing and we ended at 3 wit
h broken legs, it was exhausting!Saturday night we went into the center of town and walked around for a bit. The winter polo cup of Cortina was starting the next day, so there were a lot of polo players hanging around, (also their sponsor was Audi so there were tons of Audi's everywhere).
We went to dinner at the ski club that Nicolò and Paola belonged to and had a yummy dinner, and discovered the delicious drink of the Veneto region called "Spritz," it consists of prosecco, aperol, and sparkling water and they put in a orange as a garnish, try it sometime because it is refreshing not to mention delicious!
The next day we were definitely feeling every sore muscle in our body, so it was a lighter day of skiing as my legs were killing me and Nicolò's ginocchio (knee) was pretty much destroyed. So we did a half day of skiing and then came back to the apartment to have lunch with Paola and attempt to take the earlier train back from Venezia.
While we made it in time to the station for the 4:56 train to Roma, it was also the first weekend of Carnevale in Venice, so the train was completely packed! Nicolò and I sat in the restaurant car, hoping that people would get off in Bologna so we could take a seat, but we were not the only ones who had the same idea, as there were other people sitting in the restaurant car and also on the floor in between cars! So the lady who checked our ticket suggested taking the train coming from Milano (the high speed train) which was stopping at Bologna, so we got off at Bologna, only to find that the train was actually 20 minutes late. SO we had a nice stop at the train station in Bologna, very clean and nice if you ever want to make a visit there! The train arrived, and we were able to get a seat and make it back safely to Rome, great weekend!
