I know this isn't really on piste but I'm sure someone is in Italy/Sicily on holiday - are you OK? Not been washed away in the flooding?
Is someone on holiday in Italy this weekend? - PMRGCAuk
Is someone on holiday in Italy this weekend?
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scary! Hope you are safe Pro! xxx
I'm fine - the rain has struggled to get this far every time! A couple of places in the region west of me have had up to 4 in of rain in a day over the last few weeks but we've only had a couple of really wet days. Of course what falls on the mountains washes down to the rivers and they have been a bit high! If the pattern of weather this year continues and it gets cold it will be a VERY snowy winter and my tyres lady says it has been manic for the last 3 weeks - usually they wait until it snows at the beginning of November to ring her phone off the hook! But this year has been bizarre - a return of weather patterns last seen about 30 years ago when Dolomites weather came from the Med so we were very snow-secure. Then it dried up and they have been relying on artificial to keep the pistes open all season. It is very good but doen't look as nice without a bit of the stuff from above.
I'd considered going down to Lake Garda for a few days but it is still chucking it down there, won't clear until tomorrow night and I have to be back on Wednesday.
Lake Garda, wonderful. Have seen Scotland getting dreadful weather especially windy!
Absolutely glorious here today and flat calm but tomorrow looks like it's going to be pretty awful...
My daughter called me at lunchtime - sitting in the sun on the small balcony at the top of the garden steps. Just to make me feel even more fed up!!!
Not too bad I hope 🤞
The northwest is to be 80mph winds - considerable even by Scottish standards.
It was a lovely day here in Dollar (Central Scotland) yesterday but it’s chucking it down this morning. The wind is to come later I believe but only gusting up to about 50mph. Stay safe.
Yes - the daughter is in Carnock. As will I eventually.
Yes, Cannock not far from here - lovely wee place 😊
We went up to the farm market at Solsgirth while I was there - even closer!! She's not long moved there so although she was in Rosyth before they are still getting to know West Fife.
It’s a lovely part of the world. Many places to visit and enjoy 😊
You are cheering me up - I will be moving there eventually but hanging on here in Italy as long as possible!! I was really disappointed at the weather in July and August. I have lived in Scotland, around Dundee, for about a third of my life, but somehow we never did much in Fife, except St Andrews where I was at Uni. I had forgotten how delightful the Borders town are and they have changed so much for the better in the last 30 years since we left.
My mother in law went to St Andrews Uni - she was the oldest student to graduate from Scotland’s oldest university at the age of 83. A remarkable woman. I’m sure it will be hard coming back in terms of the weather but there’s so much that is good about Scotland. I hope we get to meet up one day 😊
True pro had no sleep with the winds past few days har in NW.plus blowing through the boiler outlet in the roof does not help either.
We are in Glenlivet in the Cairngorms. The wind is getting up now, and rain. Forecast was only showing up to 40-50 mph for us, thankfully, as we are surrounded by mature trees. But maybe a bit more later today. Though we are at 1000ft on the side of a hill when even on a calm day it can fair blow 😂
Don’t suppose there is much wildlife in that wind…. Hope it eases soon Take care
Thank you. I have visions of our poor red squirrels hanging onto the trees for dear life!
Hope not! plenty of greys here!
My daughter is going to Ortisei for few days before Christmas so hoping for good snow and not a warm December. The weather is so unpredictable- we have had lots of rain here in the Welsh borders.
It has to be extreme for Val Gardena to be snow-less though better in St Christina or Wolkenstein as the bottom of the runs are higher. Sorry - can't do Italian names!! I've been coming to the Sella Ronda for 40 years - only one winter with NO snow and that was in the 90s. Had snowed heavily in November and all the runs were prepared and then they had 3 weeks of rain right up to the top! It was the year we cancelled because my husband had had cancer surgery a couple of weeks before Christmas. I could tell the landlady didn;t believe me - though she saw for herself when we rebooked in March. By then there was snow ...
The Val Gardena, our favourite walking holiday destination. We've had some wonderful holidays in Selva, Arabba and Corvara.
In spite of being the worst skier was in val gardena many times in the '90's. Summer and winter. Fabulous. Never got to Cortina - always wanted to go. Ah the olden days. My ex (black run) husband still goes at least 3 times each winter but has to stop and look at the view a lot now. I also loved Bolzano. Just the best. Sad the weather everywhere is so difficult - i feel guilty flying now.
Wonder if we ever were there together!! Cortina is a funny resort - very bitty, not jointe up like the Sella Ronda. Is that ex black run or ex husband ... My cousins still come to Corvara - both mid-70s and I suspect it is more coffee and lunch breaks with the odd run to join the restaurants up!
Both ex. I loved going up seceda and loved ortisei over Christmas and new year oh and the really interesting breads. Those were the days. Xx
I have mixed feelings about Seceda - broke my leg rather badly there and as a result spent Christmas in Brixen hospital. Sharing a room with Denise Karbon who went on to be a top skier in the Italian team!
Wow to all that. I used to hate it when they ski down with the stretcher, probably don't do that any more. Xx
I hope you get to Lake Garda!
DIdn't this week!!! Even here it didn't clear as soon as forecast and it took longer further south. SIgns of blue sky and sunshine this morning but too late ...
Southern 🇨🇵 pretty badly affected also. Grim, so much mud to clear up afterwards.
weird weather. Somebody came back from Sicily, I think. I was asking about public transport, as we would like to go again. My favourite, Limone on Garda, going over to Malcesine & up to the mountain top on the cable car. This time last year we were in Tuscany, & it was perfect!! Our friends were on the east coast, but were fine there.
Aye well - nothing perfect about Tuscany at present!!!! Liguria's a bit off as well!
This is Sicily and Stromboli next door
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Good grief! Poor Catania! I was there this time last year.
When I read your post I thought you were inviting anyone stranded over to your place 😉.
Rather a long way!!!
😉
They're welcome though!
Packing my bag now 😂😂.
Be safe....crazy weather around the globe. 💞
Arrived in Taormina last night to thunderstorms . Our friends who were on a different flight had an aborted landing but made it on the second attempt otherwise they would have been diverted to Palermo.
However we have blue sky today and a pleasant 21 degrees. Grim again Monday and Tuesday though.
We had two weeks in Taormina one October…but at the beginning of the month, for both our birthdays: hope you don’t have too much bad weather…& enjoy your holiday!
Knew there was someone!!!! Glad you missed the first lot of yuk at least!
My honeymoon was in Taormina.
How many years ago ?
Just back from a week in Sicily where temperatures reached 28 degrees. Managed to catch covid but feeling better now.
no but it’s been pretty wet here in Cambridgeshire with flood waters rising and falling each deluge and the ground is sodden. The farmers say crops are ruined and prices will rise…. What with that, the weather, petrol prices, economy and current uncertainty about everything (careful choice of words) it feels just like the 70s. Just popping out to burn my bra 😉
Does a bit in the UK doesn't it!! Though my experience of the 70s wasn't too bad - I lived in Scotland for most of it. Though back then, fuel prices in the UK didn't match Italian ones like they do now!!
Absolutely stonking it down in Dorset this morning - grandson off to play rugby [more like water polo methinks as pitches near river].. surprisingly DIL and I declined invitation to watch, so just dad then! but he'll sit in vehicle no doubt - unless he wants an action photo!
Don't wish to upset you even more but petrol going up in budget - again...allegedly!
No, we flew back from Brindisi yesterday morning & missed the rain which turned the streets into streams according to a friend who caught the Ryan Air flight later. We were so lucky we had 6 sunny days out of 7 in southern Puglia 😎 Lovely to read the chats about skiing in Italy brings back lots of memories from the 70s!
I do wish it wasn't quite so far down to Puglia!! It is a long full day drive even on motorway which costs a fortune! No nipping down there for a long weekend ...
I’m sure it must be a heck of a journey! What a fascinating area it is but sad to see so many dead olive trees. Devastating for the community.
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