Hotel Bellevue Arosa

Poststrasse Arosa, Grisons, Swiss Alps, Switzerland

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Davos wins 4:3

A travel blog entry by thejohnston5

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... we journeyed along the road about 40km or so to Davos/Klosters which is considerably higher than Landquart where we are now. Have never seen so much snow as the ploughs have turned the sides of the roads into 3m walls of pure white ice and as the snow continued to fall everything was feathered with soft fluffy powdery fresh snow. The reason for the group excursion was a farewell treat with the Kohler family and to celebrate Sam's 15th birthday. ...

King for the day!

A travel blog entry by thejohnston5

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... station which featured folk style polka music. Nah unanimously this didn't last too long and we resorted to singing our own. Ever heard the saying 'sing like no one is watching you' well we did and it wasn't pretty! Griswalds eat your heart out!! Well the morning came and we woke to a day of continual snowing and the ski resorts were closed due to threat of avalanche and bad conditions. Yay a lay day! Kids played ice hockey ...

Is it STILL snowing?

A travel blog entry by jojotravels

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... whom we all fell in love. No culinary mishaps to report that day and hats off to Sophie for an amazing raspberry parfait served with drizzled chocolate, and some rather delectable parmesan and rosemary shortbreads for canapes. A big tribute to Vic for the best cucumber & dill dressing ever, some scrummy roast potatoes and a delicious tiramisu later in the week. (… if you want to hire them you can, but they don’t come cheap!!)

I ...

Yonaton the comic relief!

A travel blog entry by thejohnston5

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... heavily at 3.30pm and by the time we were on the descent down the mountain cars had slid into the ice wall, under a bus and so on. Snow makes the road so slippery if u don't have 4wd or chains. A huge traffic jam which had us stationary for 30mins made us think a big accident was ahead. Kids got out and walked ahead to see in the darkness what had happened. A big coach was putting on snow chains was the report on ...

The calm before the storm

A travel blog entry by jojotravels

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... My ski break (ha ha) was then spent trudging to the Coop in heavy snow to buy chicken breasts (for Day 3!) and so it went on.

I have quite honestly never worked so hard in all my life, or been so exhausted. I am glad to say
that I am enjoying it, and two days in, I am getting the ha ng of things and even finding very polite and novel ways of telling curious grandmas, mums of toddlers and toddlers themselves to get out of my kitchen and let me make their supper! ...