Tuscany and Bulgaria 2009

Our Tuscany trip included Florence, Arezzo, Montepulciano, Montalcino, San Gimignano. Art and Wine tasting were superb. Look at our picture galleries through our website 'skiingover50'
and the attached 'Flickr' galleries>


Later in June, we explored Bulgaria, fascinating; a combination of greek orthodox, Ottoman, Greek and Roman traditions. It's still not as touristy as many other European countries. Food is great, people are nice.

Travel Oct. 2007 - June 2008

Since last fall we have been to Guatemala, Egypt, South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe (Victoria Falls). We also skied the Alps for 3 months and went on a bicycling tour Vienna-Bratislava-Budapest. For some pictures and comments look on our website: skiingover50.com.

biking May 2008

We just booked a trip with Rotalis: Vienna to Budapest, May 17-24, 2008.
Biking with that group is always great fun and hard work. Bootcamp situation in the morning - ready to roll at 8:30AM sharp. But they go to all those less known treasures of art and history.
The guides are lovely and extremely knowledgeable young people - usually students.
Hotels and restaurants they select are great and often unique: former monasteries, palaces, etc.

winter 2008 skiing

Plans are almost finished.
We'll be in Corvara Jan 27 - Feb 10
- Grindelwald Feb 16 -23
- Megeve Feb 23 - Mar 1
- Val d'Isere Mar 1 - 8
- Arosa Mar 9 - 16
- Arlberg(Lech) Mar 16 - 23
- 2-3 days Stubai on the way home?
Want to know more?

website

we will have our own website very soon. It will also have some pictures and interesting information.

Slalom Waterskiing with a Bad Hip

I was very sad when I thought I had to stop waterskiing because getting up on one ski with my bad hip hurt too much. Then I decided to use a light children's ski to drop. We modified the binding so that it was very easy to get out. Then, we attached a little buoy to the binding (called a drop ski buoy) because it was sometimes hard to find the drop ski in the water. Actually, we lost a couple of skis - either taken by s.o. or caught somewhere in the river. We painted, the ski, even put our Tel. # on it. With a little practice, I became an expert "drop ski person" in my late sixties. So now I can enjoy the sport again and even try to go through a slalom course.
By the way, this is not really an original idea. In the fifties, when ski boats were quite underpowered, even competitive slalom skiers had to use a drop ski.
Presently, I ski about 3 times a week, I even joined an amateur slalom ski league called INT. Thanks to a little ingenuity, I continue to have a lot of fun waterskiing at my age.