This spring holds lots of excitement. Our first major school holiday is for Faschings (carnival) in March. We have several friends joining us from The States for a multi-hut, five day ski tour in the Silvretta Alps of Austria. After last year’s fail on the Gran Paradiso in Italy, we are looking forward to this. We will not be with guides this time, so I have a bit of trepidation, but have been assured we are perfectly capable of completing this tour on our own.

Then, at the end of April we will head to Antalya, Turkey for some climbing and beaching. This will be the first time we’ve returned to a country where we previously lived. We were last on the Turkish coast in 2011, so it’s been a little while. I’m excited to go back and see what’s changed and feel how I’ve changed.

In the meantime, we have to ski ski ski to get ready for the tour…onward!