Les Touristes Verbier

... a long time about that. Eventually we fell asleep, and I felt refreshed, it's amazing how much I rely on friends, and she has truly become a very close one.

The next day the son drove us to the train station, where Meghan and I said our goodbyes. I don't think it's the last time we'll see each other, but it was still sad. The ride into Milan was short and uneventful, but once there, I had a frantic time. I had planned all my train and bus schedules around ...

... used my final day of my eurrail pass for this trip only to find that the trip from Visp station to the Zermatt was not valid despite being told by two train operators that it was. I also couldn't get through to the girl at the station that my eurrail pass allows me discounts for the train but she kept telling me, 'no, no, you can't use anymore days it's full'. Today wasn't the first time I have been stuffed around by the Swiss. It's hard to believe that Einstein was educated here.

... So I was keeping an eye open for a policeman, and spotted a whole police station( or should I say Carabinieri)!! There must be one in there, we thought. And it's definitely worth stopping. We got a place to park (probably not very legal, but we were following the Italian rules of the road by now), grabbed our Landy Rally T shirts, and went on the hunt for points. It lookead bit locked up, but as we poked around the gate, a couple of people came ...

... was small but nice. It was called Le Petit Hotel so everything was ‘petite’! The lift was little, the bar was little, the rooms were little, but it was all very nice. Our room was very comfortable and we thought that it was definitely big enough, it would have been just a little bit bigger than our bedroom at home.

Witek wasn’t feeling very well, he had been a bit sniffly for a few days so we decided to go out for an early dinner then have an early ...

We woke "late" (8am) and were the last to leave our bunk. Skipping breakfast, we began our 5 hour journey back to Zermatt. We chose a route that would give us a different view of the valley, but involved 1800m of decent. We paid for it for the next few days. We arrived at our apartment and ...

Farmor agreed to watch Evie and Tyler for 2 days while Sue and Tom hiked to Hornlihut, the refugio at the base of the Matterhorn. Hornlihut is at 3200m directly below the Matterhorn (4400m) and serves as the base camp for those ascending the Matterhorn. When we called for reservations, they asked if we were ...

On Friday, we continued to "get the most" from our unlimited passes by taking the kids up to 3100m and the top of the Rothorn. Our journey took us up a Cog Railway (entirely inside a tunnel) to a Gondola. From ...

... Snowsports, one of the local ski schools, I expect the training will be intensive but we are both looking forward to it! The Alps cover sixty percent of Switzerland, located in the middle of Europe, sandwiched between Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, Italy and France. Verbier is in the Valais Canton in the South West of Switzerland. Valais has the 10 highest mountains in Switzerland, all over 4000m. We hope to spend a ...

... to guide my way down the mountain! So there l was zooming down the Swiss Alp in the pitch dark thinking l was going to die at any moment! I finally came down the last slope to the applause of the whole family (who l say had been waiting for me for a good 10 minutes!) yelling as l arrived "You crazy Swiss!!!!!" which has become my catch phrase here in Switzerland with the family! Just a tip if you ever want to attempt night sledding...do not drink wine before ...

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