As the students know from Sunday’s quiz, Mr Whitmarsh does descend from Italian heritage and it is his favourite country. Great people, food and landscape – we will be back next Feb for ski trip 2021.

Just on the decent down from Sestriere and the bus is very quiet. We managed to set off a little earlier but passport control will probably determine our arrival back to rainy Blighty.

Ellie overslept today so it was unanimous that she should wear the moose. Imagine it, a qualifier Sestriere ski instructor wearing a moose on their helmet

This group have absolutely smashed it this week. An absolute pleasure to ski with

The words ‘risk assessment’ have been mentioned a few tunes this week.

The advanced group had an amazing week of skiing with their English instructor Ellie.

Here they are at the top of the resort

Flavio proved to be a very popular ski instructor with one of his skiers saying she wanted to be his third wife!