Niederau, Austria..

So for the last week my coach and I have been in a little resort called Niederau, Austria near Kitzbuhel. We are staying here for another day then traveling to Lienz for a week for some intense Giant slalom and Super G training before the next europacup race in Davos, Switzerland.

After being in Niederau for a week we have both been pleasently supprised at how awesome this little resort is! We are staying in a place called the Auhof which is situated up the mountain a little way. It takes around 15 minutes to walk into town and around 25 minutes on the way back up!!!
The owners of the Auhof are British and they moved out here about 5 years ago to start this amazing hotel. My coach Ian knows them from racing on the dry slope circuit back home so they have given us a pretty nice room! Their son Martin is fascinated with brewing beer, so a year ago he got all his finances together and started brewing his own beer. Now most of you are probably imagining a little home brewing kit in his garage but you couldn't be more wrong!
The room is full of large machinery, Sterilising units, Bags of Malt, Hundreds of Bottles and more. Martin at only 18 is the proud owner of his brewery and the beer he sells to the local bars. It is so popular that he is finding it hard to keep upto the high demand of his very tasty beverage called Drachental Beer. If your ever in the area be sure to go along to one of the local bars and try this heavenly tasting beer.

This week we have had a brilliant powder day and have free skied the rest of the time. My ankle is feeling strong again after my injury and i am hoping that I will be skiing well in Davos. Hopefully i will make a good result in what i can only believe will be a very hard field.
I shall keep you posted as to what i am doing over the next few days and how my training is going. Unfortunately at the moment our internet is very slow so uploading pics is taking ages but i will add some as soon as i get some better signal.

Take care and remember to keep shredding x