{"id":1448,"date":"2009-12-14T20:19:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-14T19:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/2009\/12\/starting-work\/"},"modified":"2009-12-14T20:19:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-14T19:19:00","slug":"starting-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/2009\/12\/starting-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve started work in the ski shop at the bottom of the Fellhorn ski-field. I&#8217;m a professional boot-renter. At least that&#8217;s been my task mostly so far. I ask people their boot size in German and then deliver a ski or snow board boot depending on their needs. Highly technical I assure you.<\/p>\n<p>My work colleagues are friendly and seem to forgive me for my rather lame grasp of German. The fields great and I went skiing for 2.5 hours today during my &#8220;lunch break&#8221;. You can ski across into Austria which gets bonus points in my opinion. It&#8217;s like the border game but on skis.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/ntcfellhorn2fellhorngermany_resize-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"NTC Fellhorn 2 (Fellhorn, Germany) resize\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/ntcfellhorn2fellhorngermany_resize-1-small.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/ntcfellhornfellhorngermany_resize.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"NTC Fellhorn (Fellhorn, Germany) resize\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/ntcfellhornfellhorngermany_resize-small.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Above: The outside of the ski shop.<\/p>\n<p>Below: Photos of the ski-field.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/snowsnowfellhorngermany_resize.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Snow snow (Fellhorn, Germany) resize\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/snowsnowfellhorngermany_resize-small.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/thegondolafeelhorngermany_resize.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The gondola (Feelhorn, Germany) resize\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/thegondolafeelhorngermany_resize-small.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Below left: &#8220;Franzi&#8221; in the service area waxing a snow board. Below right: Katharina tries on a new model helmet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/franzifellhorngermany_resize.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Franzi (Fellhorn, Germany) resize\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/franzifellhorngermany_resize-small.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/katharinatriesonahelmutfellhorngermany_resize.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Katharina tries on a helmut (Fellhorn, Germany) resize\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/katharinatriesonahelmutfellhorngermany_resize-small.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Below left: Me on the ski-field. Below right: Grit in the shop.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/crisonthefieldfellhorngermany_resize-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cris on the field (Fellhorn, Germany) resize\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/crisonthefieldfellhorngermany_resize-3-small.jpg\" width=\"115\" height=\"153\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/gritintheshopfellhorngermany_resize-6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Grit in the shop (Fellhorn, Germany) resize\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/gritintheshopfellhorngermany_resize-6-small.jpg\" width=\"103\" height=\"153\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve started work in the ski shop at the bottom of the Fellhorn ski-field. I&#8217;m a professional boot-renter. At least that&#8217;s been my task mostly so far. I ask people their boot size in German and then deliver a ski or snow board boot depending on their needs. Highly technical I assure you. My work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgau","category-germany","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}