Winterberg

We headed over to Winterberg, Germany for some skiing this past weekend. It is a 4 hour drive from Haarlem and we were all a bit nervous when we still didn’t see any snow after 3.5 hours of driving. Then, out of seemingly nowhere, we crested a ridge and saw the higher snow capped mountains in front of us. All in all, the skiing was pretty good for these parts and once we figured out the electronic lift tickets we were able to get in a lot of runs.

The German countryside in this area is beautiful, with lots of quaint little villages and churches. It stands in stark contrast to the heavily industrialized megalopolis of Essen-Dortmond-Dusseldorf-etc.-etc.-etc.) that we had to drive through….but the autobahns and Sean’s navigating (as opposed to Beth’s) made even that fun.

I’ve posted a few pics from the weekend below.

We’re off to the sunnier and hopefully warmer climate of Barcelona next week so the blog won’t be updated until we get back.