Yes, Watford had snow but La Thuile had ski slopes.

Finally sorted through the photographs from our trip to Italy with Ali, Chris, Robert and Tim. We were really glad that we managed at least a few lessons at Hemel Hempstead although the real snow was even better and the mountains in the sunshine quite breathtaking.

Robs finger is getting better now and although I had some nightmares before the trip and was terrified of breaking something, slow and steady meant that I got six days to ski and am now ready to try and overcome my total fear of going down anything steeper than 25 degrees.

For one day, the sky under the cloud was dark and looked like a wet day in Watford but surprisingly, as the lift took me up for my lesson (yes, bad day for Rob) I found myself on the other side of the cloud, similar to flying.

On the Friday, Rob got a good lesson and despite how the fog appears in this video, higher up where he had just come from, the sky was completely clear.