Azzurra Cortina Ski School - In Cortina d'Ampezzo in the Dolomites. Details of courses, with price list.
The Birkenstock - Folk band from Cortina d'Ampezzo that plays traditional Tyrolean music. Photograph and e-mail.
Lorenzo Zardini Poldo - Ski instructor - the vice director of the Azzurra Cortina Ski School.
Skiman Serviced'Ampezzo Dolomites Italy - Rental of skis, snowboards, sno-toys, boots and helmets. Offers repairs and services, prices, contact details and online booking.
Snow Service - Ski equipment rental service with 4 locations. Includes details of rental items, location information and virtual tour.
Camping Rocchetta - Campsite located close to the centre of Cortina. Includes description of facilities and prices.
There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Cortina d'Ampezzo If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Cortina d'Ampezzo
"Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Cortina d'Ampezzo If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Cortina d'Ampezzo
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Cortina d'Ampezzo Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Cortina d'Ampezzo
To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Cortina d'Ampezzo The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Cortina d'Ampezzo
Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Cortina d'Ampezzo A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Cortina d'Ampezzo
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Cortina d'Ampezzo Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Cortina d'Ampezzo
The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Cortina d'Ampezzo "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Cortina d'Ampezzo
May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Cortina d'Ampezzo I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Cortina d'Ampezzo
"Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Cortina d'Ampezzo We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Cortina d'Ampezzo
If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Cortina d'Ampezzo As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Cortina d'Ampezzo
True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Cortina d'Ampezzo You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Cortina d'Ampezzo
