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Chffing down
... it together. Had I managed it 8 minutes before I would have not been given a 'time out' by the darned machine. Most of Verbier has a weird habit of turning off washing machines between 11.10 and 12.30 and 13.00 and 20.00. No other applicance, or sauna or ski lift, just the washing machines! Grrr. Anyway, had a nice cuppa with Helen (see Elfabroads Great Adventure for further tales of ...
Team dinner at 14
... thai crab cakes and mini tartiflette. Once we are sat at the impecably laid table the starter is marinated mackeral filets on wasabi puree, followed by the most incredible roast belly pork on parsnip puree with parsnip crisps-incredible! The only thing I left on the plate was the cracking, not because it wasn't tasty but for fear of shooting it across the table into the lap of our ettiquette teacher-I figured that might not be a good thing. Then whipped brie de meaux with the ...
The tallest dam in the world
To start the day we went to breakfast in Sion, Switzerland at Place du Midi. I had a vanilla cream filled croussant, know to the swiss as vanilla bread. This was a preferred by Alex but I liked the chocolate bread better. While eating Chris came to join us, as well as a small bird that also enjoyed my breakfast.
When breakfast was finished we went for a walk in the old town. There we saw many different churches. One church in ...
Schilthorn - Hiking the Swiss Alps
... from Birg to Gimmelwald (over 4,300 ft of vertical descent:
- After exploring the Schilthorn Peak, we rode the gondola back down to Birg at ~8780 ft.
- Leaving the Birg gondola station, we hiked down past Grauseeli Lake, a small, alpine lake.
- Soon, we saw a small herd of sheep that surrounded our trail.
- The trail was very steep and difficult at times.
- We took the route ...
Gondola rides
Whilst in Switzerland we decided it would be silly of us not to head for the mountains, so we found ourselves in a cute little 70's style studio apartment just under the gondola for the week. After having not the best start with all the lifts on wind hold for day one, I got on a snowboard and decided to learn something new. We made it to the top of the 20 minute gondola ride and started hunting for the ski school only to ...
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