M and A in Switzerland

Sonntag, 15. September 2013

Montag, 20. Mai 2013

With a rainy bank holiday weekend to spare, we thought we go and explore the French parts... so off to Geneva we went.

Geneva itself was a big disappointment, but Montreux and Chateau Chillon were very nice.

Geneva - this sadly sums up our main impression

Chateau Chillon

Well worth a visit !

Montreux

A charming place with a great café and strange art...any place that can be this charming on such a grey & rainy day must be a great place - even if all we took pictures of is the strange art...

Sonntag, 17. März 2013

Igloo building Adelboden

When shopping in Transa, our favourite Swiss Outdoor shop, we saw an advert for an Iglu Festival - seemed like a fun thing to do...

And started with beautiful weather:

By the evening, however, the weather changed and it got extremely windy, and as our igloo entrance was facing the wrong way, we got rather a bit of snow blown in overnight - see before and after of the inside or our home for the night:

We did consider going to the nearby hut in the night, but in the whiteout of the snowstorm it seemed a bad idea to potter about, in case we got lost - plus the festival organisers came round telling everyone to stay put, so we did. Andy spent the night shovelling snow out of our entrance, as the snowstorm kept blowing lots in. When the organisers announced at about 5 am the next morning that the nearby café was open to welcome all igloo builders with a warm coffee, we were by far not the only ones to gratefully abandon igloo and head for the warmth and safety of the mountain chalet !!!