Hotel Bristol Zermatt
Schluhmattstrasse 3 Zermatt, Valais, Swiss Alps, 3920, Switzerland
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First Ski Trip: Matterhorn and Freezing Temps
To celebrate my 28th birthday I joined a group of expats (mostly people from Deloitte) on a ski weekend in Zermatt, home of the Matterhorn. After work, I quickly went to the Christmas Market that Deloitte hosts for its employees and clients each year. I had about 15 minutes at the Deloitte holiday party to enjoy some Gluhwein (warm red wine mixed …
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The gentle art of skiing in sunshine
Emily and her husband Andrew visited during a worldwind tour of the world. It was great to catch up and hang out with the 2 after quite a few years.
Then the first day of sunshine after over a week of snowing, meant several ski trips to catch up with different mates and enjoy the huge amount of snow recently dropped and some great sunshine!
As you can see - Disco had a lot of ...
Skiing the Alps!
... there. We had sunny skies the entire trip and once again, everything was beautiful.
Had rachlettes for the first time - this is a type of cheese that they melt and serve with a couple small potatoes, onions, and pickles. I find it to be better than fondue and made sure to eat it a couple times. Another first time experience was carmel vodka. A local bar, named The Pipe makes their own vodka there and it is good!
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Cheeky Catch up with Nadia
A friend, Nadia, lives in Milan and after a random email exchange we decided to meet in Sion - close to being in the middle of Lausanne and Milan. After lunch and a stroll around Sion - which is turning into quite a cool place, we then drove to La Vaud and had some wine watching the sunset over the lake before heading to Lausanne to drop off Nadia. In the evening Ana and Stefan had a fab meal with Milagros in Pully - gorgeous evening out and the summer just keeps on giving.
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Matterhorn and an upgrade
... me to a double room with my own balcony and a huge bath for the sum I was supposed to be paying for their smaller single room.It seems most of the hotels will be closing next week in preparation for their winter season and some parts of the hotels are already undergoing repairs and cleaning. I am not complaining as it is nice to have a little bit of luxury before my next stop which will be a hostel
Zermatt is full of tourist shops, ...



