Skiing with Solos in Going, Austria 2017

Back with Solos for January.  This time a new location, Going in Austria.  Train to Gatwick and a night at the Bloc.  Met a few Solos travellers at the terminal.  Martin and Hermione, I met last year.  We landed in Salzburg in a near whiteout.  There are 16 of us together including our rep, Moira.  The others are Richard, Eric, Zoe, Rene, Diane, Heather, Stuart, Dave, John, Jim, Lianne and Nigel (who I met in 2015).

Lots of snow and skiing.

On the way to Hotel Blatthof from Salzburg

View from my balcony on arrival

Drinks in the hotel

Camera didn't focus properly but managed to catch Lianne with Eric, Zoe and Rene in the background

Eric

Church at the top of a mountain

Zoe's broken pole

Martin and Stuart at one of the coffee shops

Hermione, Diane and Jim on the dance floor at our favourite apres ski

View on our walk from the hotel to the ski shop each morning

Group shot of some of the early group of skiiers

View from Westendorf

Rene and Zoe as they were skiing the black when I did the group shot

Some of the early group skiing

Only managed to snap two of the tobogganing stalwarts.  Lianne above and Rene below

The last lot of photos were from Sunday to Thursday.  The following are from Friday.

Last coffee stop.  We then booked the same cafe for lunch.  Jim, Stuart by the window and Martin in red.

Zoe, warming up by the brick heated wall.

All the early group

In the ice hotel

Zoe and Moira

I had to try a schnapps

At our lunch stop

Rene taking a snooze

Zoe

Moira

Lianne and Stuart with Eric behind

Drinks at the bar before the last run back.

Heather and Nigel

John

 We were not leaving until 11.30 am on Saturday - such luxury, so there was time to stroll into Ellmau for some touristy shots and some coffee.

On the way into Ellmau

Noticeboard by Ellmau school

The church

More snowy and icy scenes

More of the church

Skis in the ladies toilet at one of my coffee stops in Ellmau

The chapel in Ellmau

There were four balloons but one disappeared behind the mountain

Snow crystals

Walking back to the hotel

Views near the bridge we crossed on the way to and from the hotel

I flew back to Gatwick, met the Fitness League crowd at the Premier Inn for dinner and flew out with them to Solden in Austria for another week of skiing.  More about that in my next post.