Blogs from Verbier, South-West, Switzerland, Europe

Switzerland is revered as the top European ski destination, with the city of Verbier as the focal point of skiers from across the globe. Breathtaking mountain landscapes with fresh powder dot Verbier, and the town is often filled with tourists looking to shred the world-class powder of the Swiss Alps. However, navigating your way through the crowds and finding lift passes, dining, the right accommodations, and other elements to make your ski vacation perfect, can be intimidating. That’s where booking agentscome in. Skiing the Swiss Alps The peaks of Verbier are some of the most beautiful in the world, and provide some of the best powder that you’ll ever get the chance to ski. However, it’s best to know exactly where to ski in Verbier depending on your skill level or even just your preferences (moguls ... read more

it's all melting VERY fast !! had to post some pictures as i'm sure some of you just won't believe where it's all gone !! check out the earlier photos to compare, but some of these are just days apart and the snow has melted back a few feet a day !! end of season is 25/26th April if we can make it until then .................. read more

Ok so the count down is on ...... .... we'll be playing host to visitors by the end of the week. I'll blog again once they are gone and let you know what we all got up to. Hopefully they'll have all taken to the snow and done at least some sledging if not snowboarding !!! It's been absolutely bucketing down with snow here - the local council doesn't know what to do with it all, but the weather has been very overcats so we haven't got out much. So i've been out skiing again with Helen, Amanda and Gussy. It's getting to be great fun - i'm not the most controlled or stylish , but we went off down a black run and all over the place. I'm still not very good at getting off ... read more

Hello, so it's tropical weather here today +4 degrees !!! But i hear that you guys have lots of snow over in the Uk - you'll have to send me pictures of you building snowmen. So Charlotte and John arrived last Sunday. Their chalet was just round the corner from ours so it wasn't far to go down and visit them. We went for dinner with them for Charlottes birthday on the sunday and went out on the Wed night. We met them up on the mountain for lunch too. It was really nice having them here - we had a big night out on Sat which some people (John) were a bit worse for wear after. (see the photos) They were rather lucky as it snowed for about 4 days before they arrived. I'll post ... read more

Hello all, So some of you - Charlotte and John - will be very pleased to know it's absolutely dumping it down with snow here. After a couple of false starts and the weather men changing their minds it finally started snowing yesterday afternoon and its still going. It doesn't look like it will stop today so we should have a good covering over what was getting a bit sparse. We managed a full day snowboarding on Saturday which was nice. Yesterday Phil was working but we went with him to Zermatt and i did a spot of shopping. There was a curling tournament on in town which was crazy. Zermatt is a nice place but cars aren't allowed and so you have to take the train up from a near by town which is a ... read more