Riffelalp Resort 2222m Zermatt

... control recently has broken down, this was the perfect sign to follow, where I planed to cross the border to Switzerland.<br><br>Just arrived in late afternoon to Aosta, I was not only already entered to the italian part of the alps but also to the point of good bye. Here I decided not to spend another night in Italy and crossed the border to my homecountry Switzerland a hour later at Calle del Gran San Bernardo. <br><br>BIENVENUE EN SUISSE - WELCOME TO SWITZERLAND

... the casualties of the Matterhorn.<br>Zermatt itself is tiny, with only electric taxis. It is much colder than Lauterbrunnen even though it's on the border of Italy.<br>Switzerland is strange. It has no language of its own. In Bern, Lauterbrunnen and Zermatt they speak German but in Montreux they speak French, even the train announcements change languages. It gets confusing, so I just stick to greeting people in English most of the time. When I had arrived here I was fuming a bit because I ...

... for tea and a bottle of wine and sit on the rooftop terrace of our hotel and admire the view.<br><br>I left Witek to nap and went and got the pizza and wine as well as some cold and flu tablets for him. When I got back we set ourselves up on a couple of deck chairs facing the Matterhorn on the roof top terrace. It was a bit chilly but not uncomfortable and we enjoyed a nice night up there. There was an Australian family there at the same time as us and we had a bit of a ...

... 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 ...

... see the Jungfrauroch, which we couldn't see when we were on it on Sunday!<br><br>Our hotel packed us a lunch for the road, since we missed the breakfast buffet. We ate it at 8:00 am and it truly felt like lunch! It was so good, even though we were eating a roast beef sandwich. The food is so fresh.<br><br>The town of Zermatt was quaint and very Swiss-like. We hiked through it to take the cable cars and gondolas to see the Matterhorn. On the ...

... they all enjoyed themselves. We were all expecting it to be very cold here in Zermatt, but in reality it is much like Canberra was 3 weeks ago but without the bitter wind, so I have loved the temperature. Today Cilla had a lovely girls day out with the beautiful Kate while I got to really relax and catch up with the others. She really enjoyed herself and came home feeling like a 20 year ...

Waiting for my mid morning cappuccino as l sit in the sun, beside a glacier stream overlooking the "mighty and majestic" Matterhorn (that's how the postcards describe it anyway). It is beautiful though and makes you do as all Switzerland does to me- makes me contemplate life and how small lam within this beautiful world....l wont delve into the contemplations of my mind that l journaled about that morning but leave you with ...

... bearable. The trails are quite long, of varying quality. I found that I tended to go quite fast along these trails because it got tiring turning all the time - so I just went straight. There was sure a lot of skiiers at this resort. I'm not joking if I tell you that snowboarders were outnumbered 20-1. My snowboard's damage that it suffered in La Plagna resurfaced after 5 days. Although there weren't as many rocks, the snow was pretty much like riding ...

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