Hotel Carpe Diem Saas-Fee
Saas-Fee, Valais, Swiss Alps, Switzerland
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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
... wear, restaurants,bars and of course a McDonalds. It also has a number of churches and chapels where you can visit the sites of those who died trying to climb the Matterhorn or one of its close neighbours. I am also opposite the cemetary where at night all the candles are lit on the graves and it makes you think about those who are in there. I saw one for a young Australian of 20 who died climbing.
The Matterhorn museum was also ...
Swiss Trekking Part 1
... We did walk up to the next village above called Murren. Murren is where you find the supermarket and Atm, we wanted to get some beers but found out that it closes at 12 from Tuesday to Thursday. After walking around the town and watching some of the para gliders we headed back for a beer, or two.
The next day we realized we didn't have as much food as we needed so we hiked to Murren early in the morning and came back before setting off on the ...



