Primavera Saas Grund
next to the funicular Saas Grund, Valais, Swiss Alps, 3910, 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 ...
Skiing the Alps!
Wow, what a wonderful experience I had this Thanksgiving. I went with a ski club out of this area and there were 100 Americans that went on this trip. We had the entire hotel for just us. They even cooked up a Thanksgiving dinner for us on Thursday. On Friday, we went skiing, and oh, what an amazing time this was. The snow wasn't great, but how can you complain when you are skiing the Alps and you just look over and see the ...
Cheeky Catch up with Nadia
A friend, Nadia, lives in Milan and after a random email exchange we decided to meet in Sion - close to being in the middle of Lausanne and Milan. After lunch and a stroll around Sion - which is turning into quite a cool place, we then drove to La Vaud and had some wine watching the sunset over the lake before heading to Lausanne to drop off Nadia. In the evening Ana and Stefan had a fab meal with Milagros in Pully - gorgeous evening out and the summer just keeps on giving.
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Matterhorn and an upgrade
... their lives. One interesting fact is that one of the guides retired when he was 95 years old and he summited 360 times.
I decided to take the cog railway up to Gornergrat which is at 3089m. Zermatt is also home to the highest gondola in europe and you can also do summer skiing here. The views from Gornergrat where spectacular. From here you can see 29 peaks with a quite a few that are over 4000m. There was no one climbing the Matterhorn as it ...
What we've been up to...
... treatment.
When we got back fromt he camp, we went to see Harry Potter 7 part 2 in 3D. It was okay, but not super awesome. Sunday we did laundry all day until I left for French Switzerland to spend some time with the family I used to nanny for. The girls were stoked to see me! Even though the weather has been ******, we've been using their swimming pool every evening before bed (except today, because we went for ...



