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Europe » Switzerland » North-West » Berne » Gstaad December 19th 2009

Today Kat offered to take us to Gstaad for a horse and sleigh ride around the lake with the free tickets that she had. Sweet Kat!! Gstaad is the playground of the rich and famous. Movie stars have their winter vacation homes here and Kat said we could probably bump into one of them in the town. This town also had really expensive shops, like Gucci and Prada. The girls were excited. Gstaad was so beautiful, the lake area even more so, but we could think of nothing except the biting cold as we rode around the lake in the minus 15 degree temperature. The girls were bored on the sleigh ride and frozen solid and thought there was actually no point to getting all frozen for nothing, but as usual I put it down to ... read more
The road to Gstaad
We hoped to catch
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Europe » Switzerland » North-West » Berne » Gstaad December 17th 2009

The days we spent with Kat, Andy and Solo were very relaxing. We played in the snow, cooked together, and sat for hours on the sofa just chatting. I cooked chicken curry and roti which Solomon totally loved - and of course Kat and Andy too - but they knew this food from having travelled in India. Today Kat and Andy made plans to take us to the ski resort, which normally does not open so early in the year, but this year the snow started early, so the resort opened just this week - lucky us! Getting dressed for the ski trip was a big deal cos we needed snow clothes. Kris and I had ski pants and all three of us had snow jackets, but Kee did not have proper pants, so after trying ... read more
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Solomon
Andy




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