Tag: winter holiday

Montenegro packs in more action per square kilometre than almost any other place I've ever known. It's one of the reasons we decided to settle here! During the warmer months, kayaking, rafting, mountain biking, canyoning, para-gliding, wild-swimming, kite-surfing, zip-lining and trekking are all on offer in some of the most spectacular scenery in Europe, with stunning coastline, lakes and mountains as your playground. But what about when it gets colder? I had never really been into winter sports before. Growing up in the U.K. in the age before budget airlines, skiing was an expensive and far-flung undertaking, something only the rich kids did in far away places I couldn't pronounce. And that was before knee injuries playing rugby put skiing itself on the banned list before I'd even turned 20. The opportunity to hit the slopes learning to snowboard or ski simply never came a-knocking until I moved to Montenegro. Now, as you may have seen from my last blog post, most often my winters are taken up with some absurd building project or other - but when a couple of years ago Son No:1 announced he would like to have snowboarding lessons at Kolašin's nearby 1450 Ski Centre (2 hours drive from our door) - and after knowledgeable friends assured me that boarding was much less tough on the knees than skiing - I signed up to accompany him. Just to translate. You know, just to give him moral support. And that, inevitably, is how I wound up a snowboarding addict. Is it too late to learn to snowboard in your 40s? I know what you're thinking. Isn't 45 a bit old to take up something so obviously designed with youngsters in mind? Boarding is the rock'n'roll to skiing's classical guitar. It's the punkier, slightly scruffier ne'er-do-well younger sibling,