Farellones

Rental ski gear in tow and wearing nearly all of our clothes we began the winding, twisting and turning up all the steep little roads. We were finally dropped off at our hostel and after a quick check in we were off to the slopes!

We started on green runs so Nic could warm up but eager as ever, we both quickly jumped on the ski lift and headed higher and higher and were eventually happily skiing on the reds!

On our way up

Nic preparing for the red run

Obviously she wasn´t prepared enough....

The views from the top (3350m high) were amazing. We were in the heart of huge Andes mountain range with Santiago now a distant "village" (!) in the background. We had beautiful sunshine, clear blue skies and crisp lovely snow. We were in heaven!

David after one of his falls!

We´d had a couple of spectacular falls and ended our first day tired but very happy. We returned to a cosy hostel thanks to the log fire and chilled out playing pool, chess and chatted to fellow skiiers!

The second day was more skiing, though as we were still getting over our jet lag it was a lot more relaxed. We basically had the slopes to ourselves, it was bliss.

Checking out the slopes

We made our way back down, down, down into Santiago and finished off our two days of skiing with a few Pisco Sours!!

The sunset over the Andes just as we were leaving

Trying out pisco sours for the first time...