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Gryon Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Gryon, Switzerland
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Still here!
This is a top pick! Yes, we know, it has been forever since our last post. It was a rather busy holiday season working up on the ski hill. We have been working about 10 hours a day for the last 3 weeks without a day off. Megan has been serving the rich barons overpriced ...
Gryon part deux
This is a top pick! Hello again from the Alps! We have had a great time over the last couple weeks. We have made some great friends here and have had some fun times. We even went rock climbing! Megan was like a little spider monkey scooting up the ...
and we're off...
This is a top pick! ... . It should be a blast and we think it is the perfect way to start traveling again. On Monday we go to Basel, Switzerland for a couple of days before we fly from there to Cagliari, Sardinia. Then we go to Sicily, Southern Italy, Greece and Eastern ...
Gryon cont'd
This is a top pick! Greetings from Switzerland! Has time ever flown by since our last post. 2 MONTHS!!! wow. We have been pretty busy at work as February was the peak vacation season for Europeans. Depending on the week, a different region of the continent floods the ...
Gryon
This is a top pick! ... objets et de photos de gens ayant passés par là. C'est très très "chalet Suisse". J'ai passé un séjour très relaxe à Gryon, je digérais encore mes aventures de Zermatt. Comme il a plut les 2 jours que j'étais là (avec une brume intense!!!), ...
A Swiss summer
This is a top pick! ... Swiss food, watching the parade (yes cows were involved), and of course fireworks. They have quite the history considering Switzerland became a national entity in 1291. Pretty amazing stuff. I will end for now but we will be posting another entry in ...
Gryon at last!
This is a top pick! ... ; We are perfect travel buddies and couldn't have imagined doing it any other way. We have finally made it to Gryon, Switzerland. This is where we plan on hanging up our backpacks - for a little while anyway. Gryon is a small ...
Gryon
This is a top pick! Mon dieu mon dieu mon dieu que la Suisse c'est beau!!! Sans doute le plus beau de mes 10 pays visites! Comme internet est tres cher j'ai commence a ecrire quelques textes a la main et les re transcrirai ici un peu plus tard. Avouez que vous vous ...
Skiing in Der Schweiz
Skiing in Switzerland these past few days was INCREDIBLE! No broken bones and plenty of powder- what more can one ask for?? Check out the photos for Damo and I atop a snow-covered peak at a Beck's Bar... Damo and I skiied for 2 days, with Rhiannon ...
The most beautiful place I've seen this trip!
... else to stay close by from where we could do the day trips and what a stroke of luck that was!!! The train ride to Gryon wasn't that fascinating to start with but after a couple of hours we came around a bend and found Lake Geneva right in front of us ...
Just in time
... my grand-son and I, are ready to ski down the Chamossaire on my first day skiing. Jack came from the Gold Coast to Switzerland last November and is now a qualified ski instructor from Ecole Swiss de Ski at Villars. He speaks almost fluent french and give ...
Switzerland
We have hitch-hiking from Konstanz to south Switzerland, to friends friends home in Gryon near Montreux. We spent 4 days in Switzerland (2 hitch-hiking and 2 in Gryon). Spain can wait, we have a lot of ...
Leaving Gryon, Switzerland for Sisteron,France
At last a sunny day for the first stage of my trip in southern Europe. I left Gryon early morning riding via Evian and Thonon on the French side of the lake Leman. From there a mixture on National roads and toll roads to Annecy, Chambery, Grenoble then a ...
Préparatifs
Il est venu le temps des préparatifs... Habits, sacs, paperasse, trousse de premiers secours, recharger l'appareil photo et le téléphone... Demain matin, je prends le train de 08:08 à Aigle. L'arrivée à Paris est prévue aux alentours de 13:30. Ca ...
Using the Swiss Railway Network
... three minutes....Last week my sister told me that she had two free day passes for travel by train, bus or boat to anywhere in Switzerland....... but the quandary was 'where should we go?' We could go from Basel , on the German side, to Lugano, on ...
happenings in travel land
... all the glamour. Deciding we were preferring the "relax and dont see any museums" mode, we headed for the mountains of Switzerland where we found one of the best hostels in Europe. Taking a cograil up through the alps, we stopped in ...
Day 21: Geneva, Lausanne, Gryon and Grindelwald.
... and taking about twice the time calculated for the hike. After the hike and a quite night it was time to leave the wonderfull Gryon (total of 2 foxes and 5 deers spotted) and go off to my next and last destination: Grindelwald. The mountains here are a ...
I walked 500 miles, and then I walked 500 more
Setting off early on Sunday morning, it took us most of the day to reach Gryon in the south-west of Switzerland. This wasn't unexpected although it was made more difficult by the city of Basel having two train stations. We had no idea, and instead of ...
higher than an Eagle
... around 180 judging from her anger. Instead of 180 I get the lovely chunk of beautiful brightly painted notes with the word Switzerland printed in 15 different languages on it WORTH 157 CHF(Swiss Francs). Wow Pissed Swiss and I could have exchanged a ...
Swiss Alps Retreat
... Casino, I won $1 million dollars, who wants a plane ticket to come out and visit me? JK. Next I went to Interlaken in Switzerland. Despite the first day being pretty nasty weather and otherwise (a story I will all tell you later, leave you in a little ...
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