Tag: switzerland
Our trips 2017, part 1
Dear Readers, Happy New Year ! This is our first post of 2018. It is a tradition of this blog to take a look back at some of the places we visited last year. Overall, we traveled less in 2017 than 2016, at least in terms of distance traveled. We did not leave Europe after our…
Verbier food diary: La Marmotte
We spent a weekend in Verbier during the summer this year and luckily it coincided with the annual Alps en Fête where we saw the Bataille des Reines, see the post here. The event was held at the Alpage des Grand-Plans, Les Planards, an alpine pasture above Verbier that was reached by public bus and a…
Alps en fête, Verbier
We spent a weekend in Verbier towards the end of July this year. Kind of a last minute thing. Verbier is about a little more than an hour’s drive away. Verbier is a primarily a ski resort but during the summer, it actively promotes itself as a haven for outdoor sports. Not just hiking and…
21st century Pop Art @ Villars-sur-Ollons
At a business meeting where we stayed for several days, the hotel put up these painting in its lobby area. The artist is Léon represented by Samhart gallery and the hotel is Chalet Royalp Hôtel at Villars-sur-Ollons. Hope they sell well, this is fun. We could use some Pop Art to lighten up – 21st…