Hotel Stockhorn Zermatt

Arrived in Z|ermatt - the train trip up the Alps was fantastic - Heidi and Grandpappa were around here somewhere. Arrived in Zermatt and first thing to that you see when you look up is the Matterhorn - absolutely magnificent - definitely a highlight of the trip. Ingrid, David and Carla came along for the night - toured around the town, and when ...

So, Saturday I went on a school trip to Reideralp, a huge mountain with about three or four seperate resorts on it. The weather was absolutely beautiful. I was actually getting to warm throughout the day because the sun was shining on us. It was about a ten minute train ride to get to the mountain and then you have to take a ten minute gondola t...

We celebrated our 1/2 way point in Switzerland and in our program with an incredible trip to the Swiss Alps for some snow fun. Webster organizes a big ski trip to Verbier every year and while most of us Globals didn't ski we wanted to go along anyway. I definitely needed this trip! All those mountains and the thin air did this Colorado Gal some ...

Saturday morning we took a tram to a train to a bus to a cable car to walking a snow covered road to get to Ruth & Andrea's chalet (3 hours total from Zurich, south of Interlaken). Talk about Swiss hospitality!!! Before Saturday we didn't even know Ruth & Andreas and by the end of the night we were enjoying fondue, wine and an excellent ...

Yoshua and I have decided (mostly him) that we're enjoying Zermatt on our own terms. That means eating in italy, not buying 2600 dollar glasses frames, or skiing over 6hrs straight for 3 consecutive days. We had mixed reviews from the locals in the gondola mad for eating our breakfast on the gondola impressed we brought in our snowboard to use ...

The weather has continued to be lovely – beautiful sunny days with crisp cold mornings and great skiing. Last Saturday Thomas was due to have a ski lesson. I took Thomas to the top of the mountain, met the instructor (cool dude Hugo) and prepared to leave. The Instructor asked if I was coming on the lesson – so I did…The instru...

Guten Tag!

I just returned from an adventure to Zermatt, Switzerland, where I kind of got to use my German skills for the first time in five years. Zermatt is in the German speaking region of Switzerland, butof course they speak Swiss-German which is pretty much impossible to understand. But the written language was the same and for once ...

(For those of you who asked me to include more information about school, classes, etc. in my blogs, it's not going to happen for the rest of my time in Switzerland. My classes are too terrible to even mention, and it only makes me mad thinking about it ... so, enjoy the much more entertaining stories about my weekends ...) Well, I accomplished m...

Well... today didn't start off as early as we wanted it to be for a couple of reasons. One, we had one too many beers at the local pub in town. We just couldn't get away from the vibe and the new friends we met while putting back a few pints. Second, we set the alarm on our phones but neglected to change time zones... oops! We started off our da...

Hi, its me Rahn... you know the guy that went to Switzerland... no Rahn. Yea thats right. Anyways its about time for an update. Im doing really really well. Ive been very busty (thankyou silicon) with events every weekend plus a plethora of concerts, bbqs and parties during the week. Even though the summer seems to already have past the events k...