Our last few days of Skiing
13/12/2023 A short walk along the Via Francigena The Via Francigena is an ancient pilgrimage route from Canterbury to the Rome. The route is sometimes taken all the way down… Read more »
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December Skiing in Cervinia
30/11/2023 Our first day in Cervinia was not to be the mega skiing day we had hoped for. Snow fell during the night and then continued to fall all day…. Read more »
A Last Minute Dash to the Alps
27/11/2023 When we got back from Switzerland in October I’d decided to look for work. Some of our income is generated through a rental property (our old home) and still… Read more »
A Welcome Change
/10/2023 After the hustle and bustle of Lauterbrunnen we moved onto Kandertal (in the German language the suffix ‘tal’ means valley). It’s just a stone’s throw from Lauterbrunnen but it’s… Read more »
Under the Eiger
03/10/2023 Lauterbrunnen was a location that prompted mixed feelings in us. It had been built up by people we know, people we follow and random internet strangers. A place unrivalled,… Read more »
Crossing the Grimsel Pass
30/09/2023 We woke up in the carpark at Betten Talstation. Finally we had made a decision on our destination. The choice had been between crossing the Furka Pass or the… Read more »
Back to the Aletsch
29/09/2023 After our lovely stay in the Saastal we needed to move on. We only had a couple of weeks before we needed to get home and had to pick… Read more »
Marmots in the Saas Valley
24/09/2023 South of the Rhone Valley, starting near the town of Visp, is a long valley that forks in two as it heads towards Italy. In one branch of this… Read more »
A Journey to the Aletsch Arena
23/09/2023 We were still in Brig at Camping Geshina, it was another grey day but we were really keen to get up into the Aletsch Arena and so crossed our… Read more »
Unexpected Brig
21/09/2023 Brig (officially Brig-Glis) is a town in the Rhône valley that is probably best known for being a transport hub. Trains bring in people who are travelling to and… Read more »
Grimentz: Our Last Stop in the Val d’Anniviers
19/09/2023 Our last stop in the Val d’Anniviers was the skiing village of Grimentz. It looks like more than a village with it’s many chalets and apartments, but with only… Read more »
Satisfaction in Zinal
17/09/2023 When we got up to Zinal on Sunday afternoon it was still bustling with weekend visitors. Something about the village immediately made us feel as though we were going… Read more »
Watching the Queens in the Val d’Anniviers
15/09/2023 The Val d’Anniviers first came to our attention when we were full timing in our motorhome. Esther and Dan in their blog talked about the way the local community… Read more »
The Highest Gravity Dam in the World
13/09/2023 Our drive to our next stop was a pretty arduous one. We were heading into the Val d’Herens. It’s a pretty motorhome unfriendly valley with a website that says… Read more »
Verbier VIPs
11/09/2023 I’ve always thought of Verbier as a ski playground for the famous and glamorous. Somewhere a bit ‘up itself’ where Paul and I would stick out like sore thumbs… Read more »
An Idyllic Swimming Spot at Lac Retaud
08/09/2023 We’d had enough. Enough sun and heat. We needed a way to escape. Without many options to avoid the heat we realised the only way we could cool down… Read more »
Getting rid of our rubbish in Leysin
06/03/2023 It was time to move further south. I had earmarked a couple of spots in the Vaud Alps for a visit, the first of these being Leysin. A town… Read more »
Swiss traditions at Moléson
03/09/2023 Moléson-sur-Gruyères is a small ski resort above Gruyères. We could see the distinctive solitary limestone lump that gives the resort it’s name from our last stop in Charmey. The… Read more »
An Iron Way in Charmey
01/09/2023 In blazing hot sunshine we started to work our way south. Our destination not yet in the mountains proper but in the Fribourg Pre-Alps. It seems a little unfair… Read more »
The Big Cheese?
18/04/2023 Getting to Gruyères We had earmarked Gruyères as an appropriate stopover in Switzerland. We were only passing through so it had to be a short detour from the route… Read more »