Idre!!!

Hej hej!

I’m sorry for this “long time” without news!

view on the morning from our houses

I’m using some free time at school to write this article, I’m on the library and outside I can see the snow falling behind the window. It has been now a little bit more than a week that it’s snowing every day! More or less of course but the ground is always white and it makes me happy! The temperature is always between 0 and minus 5 degrees outside. Some people in France might think that it’s really cold but let me say that it’s absolutely nothing if you compare to the minus 15 that I had this weekend in Idre.

Idre… What’s that?! Maybe you can remember that at the beginning of the year I bought a ticket for the annual skiing trip with my school? This skiing trip was this weekend and the name of the skiing station is Idre. Even if I was sick after that, I can say that it was probably one of the best week-end in my life!

Idre is situated in the North-West of Sweden, really close to the Norwegian border. We were 380 students from Norra Real (my school) to go there. After a 7 hours bus trip, we arrived in Idre around 00.30 in the night from Thursday to Friday. The journey to go there as really nice because it was the opportunity to discover the land of another part of Sweden: the North. Imagine driving in the middle of a forest for 2 hours with only darkness, snow and firs without seeing anybody, any cars or any houses. It was just wonderful!

In Idre we were leaving in 6 huge houses all divided in 5 big apartments with each a capacity of 12-17 persons! The night was party time, the time where you can meet many people that you never talked with before, it was just amazing! And during Friday and Saturday it was skiing time. We were free of what we were doing: Skiing when we want if we want, sleeping when we want, eating what where and when we want.

Friday was a really nice day, not that much cold but Saturday was really horrible: minus 15 degrees, snowing, windy… But we all had so much fun! When the weather is that much cold the funny thing is that the snow stay absolutely EVERYWHERE! On every part of the trees, on the clothes (my scarf and my ears were frozen:  hard and impossible to feel it) on the metal, on the vertical surfaces, everywhere everywhere everywhere!

Idre is one of the biggest skiing stations in Sweden but it is totally different from the station we can find in the Alpes. It doesn’t look like a big town with huge buildings, but like a village with many typical Swedish wood houses, really nice! Furthermore the station is not on a big mountain but on a really small one in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of a flat land with only firs forest covered of snow! In this country you don’t have to go high to find snow, and this one is just perfect to ski!

So from this station you just have a wonderful view of the North of Sweden…

We came back to Stockholm on the Sunday evening, many people were tired and sick, sleeping in the bus, but I think that for everybody this weekend was just legendary…





our houses on the morning





view from our houses