Les Touristes Verbier
Verbier, Valais, Swiss Alps, CH-1936, 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 ...
Disco goes to Montreux
What a fabulous day of snow today. In the morning I took a train to Monthey for scoping out some work opportunities. I think the business opportunity is really quite promising!
In the afternoon Sara, Elliot and I went to the Xmas market in Montreux. It was a gorgeous setting with the snow over the lake, a light snow fall and no crowds!
Disco came for the ride and we had a chilled out cruise around having hot chocolates and gluhwein / vin chaud (mulled ...
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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Roasting Chestnuts on a Open Fire, Lake Geneva
... to an overhanging rock climbing area and did a few climbs under shelter of the rain, but not the cold! We had a really nice dinner out with some of their friends and I tried yet another new meat, which we couldn't find a translation for but it's some kind of small deer, so like venison, but not quite the same (they had that on the menu as well). It was delicious with ...
Snow fun
... very late, I woke up at 7:30 to their music still going. I really just could not believe it.
Sunday morning I learned one very VERY valuable lesson. That is this: cheese fondue (and nothing else) + vodka + very little water + altitude = miserable morning. They don't mix well! Too little food in my stomach and even just the couple of drinks I had made me miserable in the morning, which was really bad because I had planned to take the ski lift the ...



