Comments | alasatyr: What I Did on my Holidays, or Four Skifields in Five Days.

alasatyr

What I Did on my Holidays, or Four Skifields in Five Days.

Aug 15, 2006 14:20

So I just got back from my first real holiday in about four years. And may I say it was worth the wait.

( Memoirs at forty five degrees south )

Comments 9

anonymous August 15 2006, 04:04:16 UTC

Landing in Queenstown on a clear winter day is a sight that could inspire boredom only in the most jaded. Do it sometime. Improve your life.

I can beat that! Fly to Wanaka in a DC-3. This involves clearing Lindis Pass by a few hundred feet. We were really disappointed when, due to congestion, we had to hold for ten minutes before landing i.e. circle over the upper Clutha valley, under blue skies (and the level of the mountain-tops, obviously).

Cheers
What_if_guy

neongraal August 15 2006, 04:20:53 UTC

Hee, hee, hee, hee.

and it's even great if you don't have a window seat

anonymous August 15 2006, 04:50:38 UTC

:-)
I should really put my photo of the wing pointing at the river on flickr.

By the way, we found the eating establishments in Wanaka good value for money.

What_if_guy

fridog August 15 2006, 23:06:06 UTC

Scoot down to Manapouri. $50 buys you a flying lesson, and the crazed instructor likes the way you handle yerself you get to land :oP

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alasatyr August 15 2006, 23:08:40 UTC

Yeah, they pulled that one on us too. Apparently the 737s that Qantas uses don't have those fancy navigational tools, which was why we were sitting on the runway delayed while other planes were happily taking off.

NYC? Cooool... It's one of the places I definitely plan to go sometime. I never heard of anyone moving there for the weather though!

anonymous August 15 2006, 11:33:48 UTC

Just out of interest, HOW WAS EvilBanditMonster when you got back??? HG

alasatyr August 15 2006, 23:15:56 UTC

Picture of health, and whiney as ever. That cat will outlive us all.

fridog August 15 2006, 23:04:03 UTC

Photos, I want photos!

Of the bruises. :oP

Also MP3s of the moaning.

So, this Mad-Dog... Are we gonna have to have a mad-off? I'm totally there for any 1-up-madship you may contrive :oP

alasatyr August 15 2006, 23:18:35 UTC

Dude, it's no contest. You are a snowboarder, he is but a skier.

(of course, when I'm talking to him I say that the other way around...)