Not everything was better in the past, but some things were different. It wasn't so long ago that people here on the Alpe di Siusi and elsewhere spent the darkest days of the year not watching TV, but ... Yes, what did they actually do? What did people do to combat boredom in great-grandmother's day? How did people used to spend the cold winter days and dark December nights? We went down memory lane, asked the old neighbour and collected the 37 best ideas for a relaxing, uplifting and unique leisure time for you. Without a smartphone, PC, TV, tablet or anything else:
- Darning socks
- Learn to knit or crochet
- Play a board game
- Writing a letter
- Rummage through the photo box and reminisce
- Play (or learn) an instrument
- Call someone you haven't heard from for a long time
- Learn a poem by heart
- Try out a new recipe
- Paint a window picture
- Fold wrapping paper (for next year)
- Make angel figures out of pasta
- Watch the snowflakes fall
- Go for a walk
- Make a winter campfire outdoors
- Make a mandala out of branches and pine cones
- Go on a winter safari with the old camera
- Set up a birdwatching station in the garden
- Trudge through the winter forest
- Read a book
- Dance
- Planing the calluses off your heels
- Cook a punch
- Talking again. For real.
- Fathering a child
- Get a good night's sleep
- Work on your handwriting
- Go tobogganing
- Making a body scrub from sugar and olive oil
- Drying orange peel on the radiator
- Building a snow woman
- Dreaming of last summer
- Go ice skating
- Visiting the neighbour
- Eating cake
- Organising an arm wrestling competition
- Planning the next holiday at the Zallinger
