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Zermatt Slideshow
Zermatt
Travel Blogs from Zermatt, Switzerland
Zeramtt
... love the mountain being closed in winter as it forces all the skiers to shop and shop some more. The reason we went to Zermatt is because the Eickenbusches used to have an apartment there, Mum used to stay with this family in Germany and some of you will ...
Zermatt
... are staying in mine. That part never had come up in our previous conversations. Small world!! Bought a pass to go from Zermatt to Rothorn Paradise, which is at 10,200 feet. A through the mountain funicular for 6 minutes, a ten minute ...
Ski School
Hi there For our first week in Zermatt we are booked into ski school, which is really great fun, but really tiring. I have a nice instructor called Jenny and Molly has a man called Robbie - who she calls Robbie Rotten after the TV show Lazy Town. Our ...
Finally a day off!
... put the food out for the kids to eat when we arrived in Tasch. Then we took a train for about 20 minutes to Zermatt. I helped herd the kids together to explain what we were doing there and then almost everyone (or possibly actually everyone) got on the ...
Edelweiss hike
... real hiking day. Evie had been asking the day before to go on a hike, so while Tyler napped, Evie, Tom and Sue hiked from Zermatt at 1,600 Meters to Hotel Edelweiss at 1,900 meters, pretty much straight up from our hotel. She did great and hiked 90% of ...
To the Matterhorn
After some early shopping for baguettes, cheese and pastries we were heading back to Switzerland. The drive was once again picturesque but we made a few details after the gps would lose satelite in the most random spots. So we would end up driving up some ...
More Matterhorn
... be had was today. We decided to go up high again and took the cable car system from Winkelmatten just out of Zermatt, through Furi and Schwarzsee to Trockenersteg. From there we walked about 35 minutes up to the Gandegghutte, a small mountain ...
Snow more Fun?
... and tarte lunch at the top of the ski lift in italy was about a 1/3rd the price of one small entree in town in switzerland. Anyway we're taking advantage, did hit up McDonalds last night for our train ride meal, 18 dollars for two burgers and a ...
Skiing in the Swiss Alps
Zermatt, what a pretty place. It started snowing as soon as i arrived it town and continued to snow for hours. The skiing was unbelievable, there are sooooo many different runs, and the resort is over 3 mountains. If you really want, you can ski to ...
Planes, Trains & Automobiles
... "... those aren't two pillows!!!!!!" - Steve Martin After 12 hours of traveling on 2 planes and 2 trains, we finally get into Zermatt in the evening. A light flurry welcomes us into town, definitely a good sign of a wonderful week ahead of us. The ...
2 weeks Switzerland after one week Eurotrip
these 2 weeks were necessary after more than 2000 km of travelling in one ...
Cross Country ski in Alps style
early morning heading out for our second day skiing below the Matterhorn. How often are you able to ski into another country for lunch on the mountain. This is what a ski town is supposed to be ...
Hanging with Heidi
... a hazard to the profession. But, I must concur with Brian on the scenery. We are now along the Italian border of Switzerland. So again, the language is all screwed up. I'm using French words, a lot of the street signs though are in ...
Welcome to Zermatt
Our first day in Zermatt was a "getting settled day." We did some shoping, explored the town, and swam in the pool of the Hotel next door. The weather was pretty good and the view of the matterhorn was lovely. We even managed an afternoon walk to Smutt. ...
framme i Zermatt
Otrolig smidig resa (ca 3,5 timme). Vår hostel är ingen Hilton direkt men vi har redan sett ...
Beautiful Zermatt
... for a nice swim and Sauna (nude only- afterall, it is Europe!!). For dinner we went to the Walliserkane Restaurant in downtown Zermatt and were greeted again this year by Osvaldo- he is always happy to see us and gets us good seats! They serve a ...
Zermatt- Christmas Day
... a simple but good soup lunch at Riffelberg. We had a great day then skid Riffelberg to the Fury Gondola and back into Zermatt. Went to the spa at the Parkhotel Beau and had a nice relaxing swim and sauna then to the local outside pub Pepperda ...
Boxing Day- Zermatt
... Matterhorn then into Cervinia- the light was flat, we had a couple of runs in the dwindling snow conditions then back to Switzerland and Zermatt. We ate at Trockner Steg a great soup of goulash, tortzik and wine. We came back to town and I got Galia ...
Zermatt- Rorthorn Sunnegga
We skiied Rorthorn and Sunnegga today and went to a new area we haven't skiied before called Findeln- this is a nice little mountain village off to the left of the sunnegga pistes. We had our daily Swim and Sauna. We went shopping for a while ...
Switzerlands horn
... base of the 4000+meter Matterhorn. We had some beautiful sunset views of the Matterhorn, but what was even better was that Switzerland have different power points to the rest of Europe and therefore we couldnt't charge our flat camera battery to take the ...
Arriving in Zermatt
... holidays was to spend as much time as I could with my family on Christmas while still having time to experience more of Switzerland's famous mountain peaks. To make both of my desires possible, I booked a hostel bed in the small community of Zermatt. ...
Goodbye Zermatt
... breakfast, then had to check out of our hotel and catch the train into Italy - Molly thought it was a pretty cool birthday - start in Switzerland and finish in Italy. So that's it for the skiing bit of our holiday - my dad's a bit sad, and has been ...
Hike to the Base of the Matterhorn
Farmor agreed to watch Evie and Tyler for 2 days while Sue and Tom hiked to Hornlihut, the refugio at the base of the Matterhorn. Hornlihut is at 3200m directly below the Matterhorn (4400m) and serves as the base camp for those ascending the Matterhorn. ...
Zermatt - Gornergrat
Heavy snow overnight & still falling at breakfast. Train up to Gornergrat - spectacular views all the way. A little cold & windy at the top but great snow, then the day brightened until it was blue sky & sunshine, Matterhorn in full ...
Solo Mission
... these trails every single day...so many that you may never duplicate a route. Cruising back into town, Zermatt was definitely bustling. It's the weekend and the weather here is perfect for both ourdoor activities and views ...
Exploding Hairdryers and the Trip to Zermatt
... was in a large dinner hall resturant that was also very German. (Seeing how Berne is in the middle of German speaking Switzerland, it's not surprising.) My dinner was very interesting. While I can't remember the name of the dish, I can describe it. I ...