Glencoe! A short trip report, GOOD SKIING IN SCOTLAND!!!!

I like the look of The Drovers but I'm still waiting to find out what a full scottish breakfast is!

Ian, what's supposed to be wrong with that C&A top? It looks fine to me.

Pablo, it's very kind of you to say there was nothing wrong with my black salopettes, but you never actually saw them. I remember my instructor trying to pull the elastic inner bit over my ski boots, and it wouldn't reach, because they were meant for an 11 year old, and it was a tiny bit embarassing.

I was wearing wellies in Borovets because it was after I'd broken my shoulder on the dry ski slope, and I wasn't ski-ing. So, I followed my 9 year old daughter's beginners class around the slopes (which I know you're not supposed to do) because she had a horrid instructor who refused to help the children up when they fell, even when they were only 7 years old and crying, and I was a bit like their lifeboat - even though I only had one useful arm. On that long blue run that's probably a road, I had to pick up a kid on every bend, in my wellies, with one arm in a sling.

The rest of the Bulgarian ski instructors were great - one very kindly said 'very good walking', as he skied past me.

Ally

Ally, that is actually Ians top and he likes it.. he was not joking about!

Everyone has to start somewhere and as long as folks are getting in to skiing it doesn't matter how they do it but good kit is available very cheaply especially with ebay on the go (amanda will testify to this) everyone should be equipped to a point where they are warm and dry at all times otherwise being on the mountains becomes unsafe.

As for the instructor, that is pretty out of order IMO. Did you pull your daughter from the class or ask for a change of instructor?

snowb4ndit wrote:I like the look of The Drovers but I'm still waiting to find out what a full scottish breakfast is!

I thought you were the educator, but here goes :mrgreen:

Where's the haggis at?

AllyG wrote:Ian, what's supposed to be wrong with that C&A top? It looks fine to me.

Pablo, it's very kind of you to say there was nothing wrong with my black salopettes, but you never actually saw them. I remember my instructor trying to pull the elastic inner bit over my ski boots, and it wouldn't reach, because they were meant for an 11 year old, and it was a tiny bit embarassing.

I was wearing wellies in Borovets because it was after I'd broken my shoulder on the dry ski slope, and I wasn't ski-ing. So, I followed my 9 year old daughter's beginners class around the slopes (which I know you're not supposed to do) because she had a horrid instructor who refused to help the children up when they fell, even when they were only 7 years old and crying, and I was a bit like their lifeboat - even though I only had one useful arm. On that long blue run that's probably a road, I had to pick up a kid on every bend, in my wellies, with one arm in a sling.

The rest of the Bulgarian ski instructors were great - one very kindly said 'very good walking', as he skied past me.

Ally

Ally, The picture you have witnessed is of a piece of classic ski top Memorabilia , which I have worn on all ski holidays since the early ninties, there are some people here who follow fashion, I Create it :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Pablo Escobar wrote:Where's the haggis at?

It was out of season, I like haggis but I have never eaten it as part of a Scottish breakfast, No Not Never

Pablo,
I was warm and dry so I suppose the kit was O.K.

I spoke to the instructor to find out what her problem was, and it turned out she had a major grudge against British pcople, and as far as I could see she was taking it out on the kids.

She was very well qualified, at a Bulgarian university, and had previously had a well paid job at a bank in England, and had an English boyfriend, but she wasn't allowed to stay in the U.K. because her visa ran out, and they weren't allowed to get married because they had to live together first, and she was very angry about it (this was about 6 years ago). And I suppose the only job available to her was being a ski instructor, which in Bulgaria at the time was very badly paid.

She thought our kids were soft, and spoiled, compared with the Bulgarian kids, and she deliberately made things very hard for them. I was cross with her, because one of the kids, a 7 year old boy, was crying, and gave up ski-ing, and I found out from his mother that he'd been born premature and had had a really tough time and I think was deaf in one ear with a special hearing aid.

I did complain to the TO rep and she said that woman would never be teaching ski-ing to kids again. I wanted my daughter to have fun, and enjoy ski-ing, so that we could go on ski-ing holidays together in the future. As it was, because I was there to help, and pick her up (as well as all the other kids), she did ski again and is now a very good skier, miles better than me. At one point, I actually had to walk up the side of a very icy slope and rescue the poor kids because they were all stuck, and half of them were crying, and I got them all out safely through the trees and back down to the instructor.

Perhaps in a way it was fortunate that I did break my shoulder or I never would have known what was going on, and I would have just wondered why my daughter didn't want to ski any more.

Ally