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 »
Tag: mountain
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 »
Chamois – the Village you cannot reach by Car
13/04/23 A gassy refill It was gas that forced us away from Cervinia. The LPG that we use to fuel our fridge, hot water and heating was on the verge… Read more »
More Snippets from Cervinia
08/04/2023 Getting Busy There had been a handful of people in the sosta when we arrived, but things gradually got busier until we found ourselves surrounded by over 40 motorhomes…. Read more »
Back in Cervinia
05/04/2023 We left Chatillon and eased Bertie up the road to Cervinia on the Wednesday before Easter. It wasn’t clear how busy Cervinia would be this Easter but it was… Read more »
Arriving in Aosta
03/04/23 Another Aosta valley new experience beckoned. We have never actually visited Aosta itself, which seems like a major omission in our frequent visits to the eponymous valley. Aosta Town… Read more »
Wild Winds in La Thuile
30/03/2023 It was time to move on from Samoens and from France, heading East to Italy where we expect to spend the remainder of our skiing time. First, a shopping… Read more »
A Family Week in the Grand Massif
23/03/2023 Skiing has always been a bit of a family pastime. Paul and Aaron’s first experience of skiing was when Paul’s Dad generously paid for the whole family to go… Read more »
The Ups and Downs of Ski Weather
16/03/2023 Skiing despite the weather in Les Saisies 2023 has been one of the worst ski seasons for some time. A combination of low snowfall and warm temperatures have left… Read more »
A Week in Glen Nevis
Fort William is not the most prepossessing town, and our memories of it are somewhat tainted by the fact we almost always visit in poor weather when the grey wet… Read more »
The Roads – More or Less – Travelled
We have spent a lot of holidays in Scotland. We particularly love the west coast ‘where the mountains meet the sea’ and have spent many pre-motorhome holidays enjoying the mountains… Read more »
Arriving in Austria
07/05/19 – 08/05/19 After our walk to the Drei Zinnen mountain hut we decided to cross the border into Austria. A brand new country for us, one that neither of… Read more »
A Little Luxury and some Snowshoeing at Camping Sexten
05/05/19 – 07/05/19 We had reached the conclusion that the Dolomites were rather expensive for motorhome travel. Often we hear people complaining about the cost of travelling in Italy and… Read more »
Our First GPL Refusal and a Search for Parking
02/05/19 – 04/05/19 Our lovely sunny weather in Molveno was just a momentary blip. The weather forecast was showing temperatures dipping again, with snow in the mountains. We thought we… Read more »
Marvelous Molveno
29/04/19 – 01/05/19 With a couple of unsuccessful mountain excursions under our belts we thought it was time to take a new approach and visit somewhere a little busier and… Read more »
A Final Ski in Livigno?
16/04/19 – 19/04/19 After a decent fall of snow in Passo Tonale we were torn about our next steps. Should we plough on into the Dolomites? The ski season was… Read more »