Blogs from Gruyères, North-West, Switzerland, Europe

February 2011 saw me somehow convince my parents to let me visit the chalet twice with friends. The first trip was a long weekend with work colleagues that would see us flying to Geneva and hiring a car. A stroke of luck had seen us upgraded to a top of the range people carrier rather than the estate that we had ordered – complete with rear facing video camera to help with parking and all kinds of sensors which we had great fun testing out!! The snow reports had been pretty shocking and this was borne out when we got there, with glorious sunshine and none of the local resorts being open. In the days and weeks approaching the trip I had tried to convince my colleagues that the poor snow reports were not an issue ... read more