Rosalp Verbier

Route de Medran Verbier, Valais, Swiss Alps, 1936, Switzerland

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The gentle art of skiing in sunshine

A travel blog entry by gregsbigshimmy

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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

A travel blog entry by gregsbigshimmy

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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!

A travel blog entry by cmkohn

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... 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

A travel blog entry by jbwoods

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... bottles of red wine and some laughs (mostly at my lack of French).

It was great to catch up with Matthieu and Clelia at their home. It turns out Matt, a geography teacher and mountain guide, was taking a group of 30 students to Barcelona with two other teachers on the 9th of Oct. and my flight was from Zurich to Barcelona, so we deciced to meet up (again) there...
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Snow fun

A travel blog entry by hachbach

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... guard, in a bar! Granted, a posh bar, but a packed bar none the less. We left as soon as we were all done and found another one that was very cute, very swiss (looked like a chalet inside) and where the drinks were cheaper and we could actually sit and talk. Oh, and no undergrads.

On the hike back to the bunker at 1 am we got into a HUGE snowball fight in the street. And like the IR geeks we are were spouting international law while lobbing ...