Hotel Elite Crans-Montana
Rue des Xires Crans-Montana, 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 ...
Dove osano le aquile
... rilassante ma c’erano anche un sacco di scalmanati che si buttavano col paracadute dalle vertiginose pareti di roccia scavate migliaia di anni fa dai ghiacciai. La sera ho raggiunto in scooter Interlaken, a 12 km, per vedere l’ultimo film della saga di Harry Potter...era in tedesco e non ci ho capito una mazza dei dialoghi, ma il libro l’ho letto tre volte perciò quasi sapevo sempre che cosa ...
Alpine Adventure
... to the warmth of the indoors with movies and Baileys on the balcony, this time was filled with well deserved rest and the consumption of fine foods in preparation for Christmas festivities. Dining at the local Hotel Oberland, we sampled our first taste of traditional Swiss fondue, mixing a selection of chives, onions, peppers and garlic into a pot of melted alpine cheese wherein we dipped an assortment of potatoes and bread. Yeah. It was good.
But our dabbling ...
The Price of a Comfort Stop!
... was expensive. Actually, the entire experience was an spendy reminder of the need to manage comfort stops (even when traveling without a group).
When the bill came I swooned! Thirty francs for one bottle of water and two apple tarts (albeit ala mode). The water was five francs alone (the franc is now about on par with the dollar). Linda is learning that water is often the most expensive drink on the menu. We just burned $30 on a comfort stop with a ...
Lautersssssssssssssssss - heaven on earth
... I got to sit there with my foot out the door which was left open for filming the whole flight. The first part of the flight was a scenic flight through the alps RIGHT up close to the snow capped alps. The chopper took us so close that we could have jumped out onto it. INSANE! By this stage, we were at 12,000 feet and ready to jump. We slid off the seat and I put my feet on the landing bars of the chopper, Stefan came out and put his feet either side, asked me if I was ...



