Davos - Day 6 - 20th February 2009

Morning - Afternoon

Up early today as it is/was our last day, breakfast and down to Jakobshorn by 10:30am..

For some reason the lift was barely used in comparison with previous days which we took full advantage of, we had a break at lunchtime and carried on through until 4:30pm. We're all quite chuffed we've managed to come through the week reasonably unscathed, think Sam's copped the worst with a bruised arse.

Evening

We decided to opt out of the Gala candle lit dinner and went to eat at the foot of the slope, I had ravioli, Jake had Spaghetti with tomatoes and Sam had Chef's special spaghetti (she didn't eat the prawns but the locals next to us came to her assistance).

After dinner we watched a few of the locals having a night time session on the superpipe..

Jacob's video diary entry for today...

Davos - Day 5 - 19th February 2009

Morning

We decided to take a little hike down into town again to look in the shops that we hadn't yet visited, it seems that recession has hit the upmarket town of Davos aswell as there were quite a few shops with sales of up to 50% reductions. Sam picked up a bargain.

Afernoon

We strapped on our boots and went down to Jakobshorn and took one run, after which burnout kicked in for Sam, Jake and I went up on the ski-lift probably about another 5 times or so while Sam enjoyed a little Apres Ski.

Jake doing his uphill waddle

Jake's video diary for today....

Apologies for the insanity in the above video...

Davos - Day 4 - 18th February 2009

Morning

Well, it looks like the weather forecasters are better than ours, it's sunny and very crisp out there.

We decided we'd start off at a leisurely pace today, after breakfast we put on our full snowboarding gear and got the free shuttle bus down to Bahnhof Platz and dumped our boards at the bottom of the slope in the unlocked racks (apparently its unheard of for equipment to go missing, even if left overnight!)

We then decided we would go for a trip up in the cable cars, I was quite nervous of this for some reason and Sam who is notoriously scared of heights wasn't - very weird. Once we had reached the summit we had a bite to eat and took a couple of photos...

Afternoon

Following lunch and our photo session, we thought it a good idea to work off the chips and spent the afternoon on the slope. We first went on a snow bound nursery slope Jacob fine, Sam nearly buried and almost sick, Al virtually buried nearly had a heart attack, nightmare trying to dig yourself out. Next decided the more popular route again as we are still on the nursery slopes, and probably will remain so on this holiday we decided to let Jacob go down unsupervised - he was fine...(and much better than either of us).

Jacob

Sam

Apologies for the white noise on the videos but I don't have video editing software to sort it out at the moment.

Jacob's video diary for today.....

Davos - Day 3 - 17th February 2009

Morning

It's been really really really snowing hard overnight and all day, we decided to take a break from the slopes, however we did lunch at the foot of the mountain, chips, hotdogs and a couple of coffees - total cost just under 25 swiss francs - around £15 - £17 (apparently cheaper higher up the mountain too!)

Afternoon

Swimming in the "heated" swimming pool, it was cold but not as cold as the one in Woolacombe bay. Still snowing!

Evening

Went for a bite to eat away from the hotel, Sam had bolognese, Jacob had fajitas and I had a spaghetti dish called Babi Babs (I think thats how it's spelt) plus for pudding Sam had meringue, ice cream for Jacob and I had caramel creme + a couple of beers - total cost 120 francs (£72)

Still snowing - I estimate a couple of foot at least today, perhaps more

Jacob's video diary entry for today...

Apparently its going to be sunny tomorrow, lets see how accurate the forecasts are here !

Davos - Day 2 - 16th February 2009

Morning

Went for a nice walk this morning and took in the breathtaking views. Sam purchased a rear end protector for her bruised coccyx, real snow isn't as hard as the snow dome but at speed it still hurts!

We are off to have a 2nd lesson shortly, again mainly for Jacob's benefit as he won't listen to Sam or I, and even if he did we would probably teach him wrong.

Afternoon

A cool afternoon, and I do mean "cool", arrived at the slope at 1.30pm the temperature was -11 degrees C. (if anyone knows how to do the symbol let me know - please bear in mind I'm using a sub notebook and a Linux distribution!). We were advised that it was a lot cooler, that said within 10 minutes it started snowing and did so for the duration of the afternoon.

Due to Sam's injury which is thankfully a lot better now and my aching limbs we took it easy today, Jacob however had a lesson with Dom from yesterday and is improving quite rapidly, he had a go in the mini snow park which is effectively a little area with conveyor belt type apparatus (see second picture below)

Jacob's diary entry for today...

Davos - Day 1 - 15th February 2009

We will skip the travelling day - 14th Feb as we did little else with the exception of traveling. We strolled into Davos town centre or at least a part of it, Jakobshorn / Davos Platz and signed ourselves up for a lesson. A chap called Dom took us out for about 3 hours - lucky guy!! Sam and I had previously attempted snowboarding about 7 years ago and as such required a refresher course. Dom basically gave Sam and I pointers and we got on with it, spending half the time on our back sides and half the time out of control. We did get better thankfully. Jacob effectively had the lesson to himself, he enjoyed it immensely and is having a further lesson tomorrow afternoon. Sam and I are going to wing it, however Dom has said he will give us pointer without having to pay for a lesson.

The scenery is beautiful, we have a balcony and a decent view from the window. See below Below is Jacob's first video diary entry...