A week of excess. Snow - since most of Justine's charges barely measure a metre, and on Tuesday 70cm of snow fell in the space of a ski lesson, attempts at skiing were heroic (Libby's attempts pictured here). Travel time - Berkshire to Maria Alm by minibus in 24 hours, a experience our recent visitors, the Ainger and Rogers families, would not like to repeat. Visitors - 13 in one week, 9 of them residing in the house (including our own extensive range of ski equipment, that amounted to 56 skis in our garage). Food - a modest shopping list, requested of Nicola, translated into 8 boxes of cereal, 24 bottles of beer, 12 bottles of wine, a few kilos of chocolate and cheese, a year's supply of custard powder, 240 tea bags and a whole side of honey roast ham. And fun, which you can never have an excess of, in abundance.
