Hotel Holiday Zermatt

All this journey we had ou car with us and this was a ski holiday. So we traveled down to Dover Ferry caught the Sea France Ferries across to Calais. Then carried on to Reims where we stayed in lovely little French hotel for 2 days, dressed for Christmas, ...

... trip has been in the planning stage for a whole year. We start with a week in an apartment in Paris. We will ski in Zermatt over Christmas and spend New Years Eve in Venice. Other higlights will be a trip to St Petersburg and two nights at the Ice Hotel. ...

... . Actually, the views from the train were definitely one of the highlights of the trip. Accommodation ------------- Stayed at a YH in Zermatt, costing about $60AUD per night, and includes buffet breakfast and a 4 course dinner. The YH was quite clean ...

... slopes of the mountain while it was quitely snowing on Christmas day - magic! On boxing day, my aunty and uncle arrived in Zermatt - they have also been travelling around Europe (Russia, Austria and other places) and they are here to ski with us for the ...

... is a popular village for skiiers and hikers. I will upload some photos of the surroundings. It would be good to have a longer holiday here to take in the clean mountain air. One problem with train up from Visp. This line is privately owned and our ...

... we've met some cool people and we have some great memories. Before I write about our next adventures, I have a few final things from Zermatt to tell you. Firstly, our last day of skiing was fantastic - clear skies, no wind and really good snow - it let ...

All this journey we had ou car with us and this was a ski holiday. So we traveled down to Dover Ferry caught the Sea France Ferries across to Calais. Then carried on to Reims where we stayed in lovely little French hotel for 2 days, dressed for Christmas, ...

... to the top.  By the time we reached the top of the mountain it was bitter cold (around 0 degrees fairenheit).  Normally in Zermatt you can take the gondolas up the Swiss side and ski down the other side of the mountain in Cervina, Italy.  ...

... boots, jackets and pants, bought ourselves some gloves, and had a look around the village...then came the bad news. The food in Zermatt was EXPENSIVE! Most meals were CHF 35 which was about 40 AUD. Ouch! After much sulking around not sure what to do ...

Ein paar Tage in den Rockies verbringen war ein klares Ziel unserer Reise. Ein weiteres Must-Do (Wandern in den Rockies) kann abgehackt werden. Es war auch interessant, einen US-Skiort mit Zermatt vergleichen zu können. ...

... nbsp;                   Ends in Zermatt.  Accommodation has been reserved for 1 night at:  ...

20 – 21/05011 Zermatt to Como Sadly we had to say goodbye to Zermatt. It would have been good to have a week's holiday there and do more hiking and vegeing out in the warm Spring weather. Train trip down the mountain was again interesting with many ...

So we checked out of our room, payed the bill and bought train tickets to Milan.  The train from Zermatt to Visp was very nice and we enjoyed the view of the many ice falls and small villages speckling the hillside. When we arrived in Visp, we met a ...

... with their flower boxes under each window filled with colourful geraniums. So after 291 bridges and 91 tunnels, we arrived in Zermatt a small tourist/ski village just a short distance from the base of the Matterhorn. The Matterhorn is a mountain in the ...

... it be nice to stay here another day... its so nice here..... ahhhhh..... maybe we could.... we are on holiday..... we can postpone Zermatt accomodation maybe..... So through the tourism info place we found a place with a vacancy (oh man we should have ...

... put the Sierra mountain range to shame. It reminded us of Montana and the Canadian Rockies. We made a quick afternoon stop over to Zermatt. Unfortunately, the weather was poor so we could not see the Matterhorn, but it was fun anyway, though off the chart ...

... to put the light on to see. After traveling on the train for one whole day, I arrived at a place called Zermatt.  I stayed in a nice hotel and the next morning I could see one of the highest mountains in the world called The Matterhorn. Zermatt is ...

... Well, lets just say the cable car rides were fine but not overly exciting after the ones in Zermatt. Then .... breakfast.... ordinary.... the same as  our hotel breakfast.... ham, cheese, eggs, bread, dodgy yoghurt and bruised apples. No mention ...

Pieter (my friend from South Africa) came from Kabul, Afghanistan to come visit for two weeks. He spent a week in Zermatt (visiting the Matterhorn) and then came back Tuesday. We went for Indian food with Sophie and Michael and then rode the big Ferris ...