Day 4 - Lurgy

07:00
I sleep fitfully. I wake a couple of times sweating from every pore of my body. I wake at others shivering under my duvet. My throat is inflamed, and my nose is blocked. I’m now willing to declare a state of lurgy. I’ll head out later to try and procure some cold and flu type drugs, but for right now, I’m sitting on my sofa, under my duvet. I ping Team Helmet to let them know of my current malaise. Hopefully, I’ll be up to a bit of an excursion later, but my priority is getting sufficiently well to be back on the mountain tomorrow.

WISH ME LUCK.

16:00
An awful lot of not very much has happened today. I have a stellar nap around 08:00 for a good couple of hours. It does not improve how I feel, but tops up the very little sleep I got last night, and also passes the otherwise pretty dull time = WIN.

I binge some TV. Since you ask, Berlin Station - an espionage thriller from around 10 years ago. Very good. If you like Homeland, The Night Manager and their ilk, this will be right up your strasse.

Around 14:00 I venture out for supplies and drugs. There’s a small pharmacy at the other end of town who kit me out with some decent sounding cold/flu remedies. My visit to Sherpa yields some groceries to make dinner tonight. We’d been due to have a Raclette at SSJW’s apartment - I neither feel up to it, nor wish to pass on whatever germs are inside of me to my travelling companions. The Sherpa has a marginally better selection than other mountain supermarkets I’ve used in the past, including other outposts of the Sherpa chain. There’s a pretty decent butcher’s counter, a deli section with local cheeses and charcuterie, and a pretty decent fruit + veg selection. A simple pasta for me this evening.

The walking and shopping activities all but wipe me out. I have another little nap to make up for it.

22:00
I wouldn’t describe today as having been much ‘fun’ but I’m feeling better at the end of it than I did at the beginning. I suspect I’d have felt ruined had I tried to ski today, and it sounds like the conditions on the mountain haven’t been great. Maybe 7-10cm of fresh snow have fallen, which is great, but it’s meant visibility has been variable, which is always tricky.

Here’s hoping Wednesday is an improvement on all fronts.Læs mere