Skiing is one of the greatest fun sports I have ever known in my entire life! Skiing is great fun especially if you are a snow lover!
Unfortunately skiing is a sport that you can’t do very often, especially if you are living in a Mediterranean island with mild weather. But I suppose that some Northern countries like, Norway, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Greenland (I wonder why it is called Greenland instead of Whiteland!) or some parts of Canada or Russia can do skiing almost all around the year because they live in a snowy cold place!.
People living in such countries are likely to have more chance to enjoy and experience winter sports rather than us who live in a very hot island and can’t do this sport unless we go to a mountain resort for a holiday! Sadly this makes skiing extra costly and time consuming. But to look on the bright side, cold places like the Northern countries can’t go swimming almost every day like we do in Cyprus! They have to travel to a seaside places in order to enjoy the sun and the water
Certainly there are other places in the world apart from these very cold countries which offer ski resorts. They have snow in the mountainous regions like America, France, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Germany, Turkey, Iran (yes Iran has ski resorts, I found out this year!) and many more. Turkey, being the closest to Cyprus, offers a couple of alternative destinations. I have been to a few but this year I went to Bolu – Kartalkaya which is three hours away from both Ankara and Istanbul, two major cities of Turkey.