The sun is shining and I was keen to be amongst the first up on the first day of the decade. The gondola opening earlier than expected sat 09:25 and I was soon enjoying 9/10 on piste conditions on the Plato. My vlog is below: I was very happy with this one as the sun […]

It’s been a challenging start to the season with some poor days, like Monday and some better days like yesterday and today. But the cold temperatures have kicked in. This enables snow cannon  to to do their job and get that snow on the pistes. Tomorrow I expect all of piste 10 to open with piste […]

With music, dancing, firework and snow falling  the opening day on Saturday was a good one. The high winds were not great but that all improved yesterday and for today with some fine skiing to be had on the plato. With lots of people enjoying the atmosphere it is always a pleasure to be here […]

La Skara restaurant is almost an institution in Bansko having been located just 100 metres from the gondola lift traffic lights on Hayden Gerov for many years. It’s a place that I was keen to try again and one where I was pleasantly surprised on many levels. Full Disclosure: La Skara can be booked in […]

It’s that time of the season I love; the first run is open. Life is good. It was an epic day being taken up the mountain with Ivan Obreykov, Ulen’s (lift operator’s )marketing director. and a pleasure to take a bootle of rustic reserve’s Craft 19 gin and a bottle their gin liqueur, some tonic, […]

What a fabulous dump of snow we had last night. I was up at Shilligarnika to get some fresh air and it was just at the start of the snowfall to show you and the YouTube subscribers what was happening. You can see it was cold. Because a lot of snow had fallen in Sofia, […]