Escaping the city on the ski slopes of Abruzzo

By Kimberly Sullivan | March 6, 2018 |

My kids had a week of school vacation in February and they wanted to go skiing, and I was happy to exchange the office for the ski slopes for one glorious week. There’s something special about escaping the city to take temporary residence in the mountains. Our mountain escape of Ovindoli, in the region of…

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Skiing in a winter wonderland: Italy’s Dolomites

By Kimberly Sullivan | March 7, 2017 |

My week skiing in northern Italy last month was a hard thing to leave. After all, we enjoyed seven days of sunshine and snow on the 1200 kilometers of trails that took us all over Italy’s Dolomite Mountains, exploring new valleys and slopes each day. The Dolomiti, the Dolomites, are a mountain range of the…

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Skiing in Ovindoli, Abruzzo

By Kimberly Sullivan | March 1, 2012 |

I love living in cities. Maybe it’s just part of growing older – ahem – more mature, but now I find that to continue to enjoy living in cities, I need to escape them occasionally. And I’m not sure if there’s a better escape than a skiing get-away. Italy has lots of great skiing destinations…

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