>>>>>>Al Jazeera 21 Febr 06 - worth watching..
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>>>>>>This amazing woman (who is she?) was aired on Al Jazeera a few days ago.
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>>>>>>You may have seen it already, but if not, click on the link and turn your speakers on.
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>>>>>>http://switch5.castup.net/frames/20041020_MemriTV_Popup/video_480x360.asp?ai=214&ar=1050wmv&ak=null
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>>>>>We saw this and commented on it last week. I so admire her. You can catch her name and title at the start of the clip.
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>>>>Thanks for the tip. Yes, I now understand it has already been discussed here, while I was in the Alpes, swimming in the open air in water of 29 degrees celcius, surrounded by snowy mountainpeaks.
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>>>Not boasting but, just like the snow afterwards, you're rubbing it in! :-)
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>>Well, that was about the most positive experience. The negative ones: I can't ski, my wife has now torn cross ties of a knee (she'll need surgery) and went home by airplane, on our way home we (5 persons left) travelled only 200 km in 10 hours due to endless traffic jams and I had to pay the motel. Still yealous? ;)
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>Well I have ligament trouble with my right knee which I think would preclude me from skiing. Sorry to hear about your wife's problem. I'd imagine that the traffic jams were as nothing cf. the queues to get on the ski-lift, esp. so soon after the winter olympics. And I suppose I could always have a nice hot Radox bath. So all in all not jealous,I guess (although, note, I never said that I was!). Besides, in less than 2 months I'll probably be off for a week's diving in the Red Sea while your ski trip is a fading memory :-)

Ooh yeah, I forgot to mention that it cost my a LOT of money. Five persons having lessons skiing or snowboarding, and requiring expensive skipasses, six for the hotel. I was the cheap one, and the cabdriver. And I had to buy winter ties for the car, snow chains, a roof trunk... I think I could've paid three trips to the red sea of that money and I think I'll do that next time. :)