A downhill slide

Monday morning was a bit duller than Sunday. Snow was forecast and the tops of the mountains were shrouded in cloud. Never mind. The rest of the week was forecast to be bright and sunny. The keen skiers were up at 8am again, Vicky and I lazed till 9 then mozied on down for breakfast. The keenies has gone off to try a new lift with the idea that Vicky could join them if it was OK. It obviously wasn’t as the text came through to meet at the bottom of Pradalago the same as yesterday. So we went. And waited. And waited. After half an hour in the Alpine cold the bright orange sheen of Alex’s new ski jacket appeared round the bend. Apparently they had got very lost. I waved them off and set off on a walk to the end of the town, again. It was the same as yesterday. I decided against lunch and returned to my room where a text from Ian came through. 

Oh no! The skiers, to a man, were horrified. They all said out has been the best skiing ever. With slops so quiet by hat even Kathy was happy. They had a great day though, and there was still tomorrow. 

Some cloudy ski photos 

A little concerned, we all waited for Jess, the poor old rep, in the bar. It was a consolation to me that there were about a dozen other people from our hotel waiting. All in it together. We all pounced on Jess as she arrived. She promised they were working as hard as possible to get us home weds. She said she had just moved 400 people from pasa Tonale, in Lombardy, to Madonna so they could finish their holiday, and now they had to go home anyway. She told us to go out and enjoy the skiing tomorrow, try not to worry. She also has to go home, and has lost her job, plus she says she usually does the summer season. The resort usually continues with skiing for another month, and the hotel now has to close tomorrow. People are a lot worse off than we are. 

We ate dinner, it was quite jovial in the dining room, then did another round of Yahtzee. Just as we were heading off to bed several phones buzzed at once. BBC news. The whole of Italy had been placed in lockdown. Including us.