Lockdown

As I awoke on Sunday morning the first thing I saw was the BBC News app exclaiming that the whole of northern Italy would be going into lockdown. Cue mass panic. On looking more closely it appeared that our region was one of the few in northern Italy that would miss out, but I was still quite worried. We had agreed that Vicky and I would have a late breakfast around 9 am while the rest will be breakfasting at eight in order to catch the first lift up the mountain. I quickly contacted Vicky and we arranged to eat at 8:30 so that we could meet Jess, the rep and find out what the hell was going on. 

Breakfast over, we headed down to the lounge where we found another British family who has also travelled with Crystal and also wanted to see Jess. Unfortunately at the allotted 9 am Jess have not arrived. We waited and waited some more and eventually around 9.20 Jess came running in. “Don’t worry” was her command. “Everything will be okay. This region is not in lockdown carry on withYour holiday.” 

The others, not being in the slightest worried, had indeed caught the first lift up the mountain. They contacted us around 10.30 to say they would meet Vicky at the bottom of the lift where I deposited her. I then set off for a walk around the village.

The skiers depart

The skiers reported that to prevent the spread of coronavirus they were not allowed to sit next to each other on the chairlift. This meant that the chairlift Queue did not move as quickly as usual, which meant there was a huge Melee at the bottom of the skilifts because people didnt get on as fast. This did appear to defeat the purpose.

Madonna di Campiglio 

A spot of lunch 

Meanwhile somewhere up a mountain in Italy

The skiers were having fun times due to the fact that the slopes were really quiet.  I wonder why that was. An early faller was Alex who forgot how to turn about 20 m off the first ski lift. An almost faller was Chris Who went shoulder to Knee with a small Italian child, and although he thought about tossing the child off the slope, found himself being run off it. They stopped for a nice lunch where Alex had a mozzarella ball as big as his head. They then skied some more, everyone of them enjoying it. Vicky even stayed out quite late, not making it back to the hotel till around 4 pm. After a couple of drinks in the bar we all showered and rested before meeting up for dinner in the restaurant. After dinner we played the first round of Yahtzee which Ian won. We are not alone this evening as the other British crystal family and a couple were also enjoying Maurissimos cocktails. I wonder what tomorrow will bring.