Friday, March 04, 2005

Skeee'ing in Sveeeetzerland


Having not seen snow since Christmas I decided to go on a little ski trip to Switzerland. Torgon in fact, which is South West of Lake Geneva. After a hellish bus ride which took 11 hours too long(33 in total), due to the French, we arrived at 5am on Sunday morning. Thankfully it was all uphill from there, and then downhill(much quicker) then uphill and down and up and.... etc.

The little ski-in village was quite close to France so we often found ourselves eating lunch in France and getting ripped off big time by the locals because we didn't have any Euro's. It also didn't help that the extent of my French was 'pourqoui' - So they'd tell me something and my response would be 'why?'. They'd then explaing why and again I'd ask 'why?'. Estupido foreigners vai cant zey lern MY language?!

The worst part of skiing into another country was having to ski through those stupid x-ray machines every time we crossed the border. :p As if it's not cold enough WITH my clothes on! Anyway here are the pics...

Trying tp sleep on the 7hour ferry trip(normally 1hr) Torgon Sunset on the Alps Paul with his... erm.. beard.
The ski gang Me. Incase you didn't recognise me with a beanie on. A scenic chairlift ride Sarah and me looking at a photographer
Merrick, Debbie and Paul Reyer, Debbie and Bruce Reyer Debbie and Sarah
Merrick and Reyer contemplating a 60degree slope. Black run moguls. Hmmm fun for some. One of the lodges Torgon main street Flags?
Another apartment block Mine was the one on the left Isabelle posing Me, again in Morgins(France)
Morgins, cute little village. The treck to the ATM took about 1.5 hours on skiis. Ummm... mountains. Ski lift shadow
Gorgeous fresh snow Enjoying the view, sun and coffee. Debbie, me and Lizzie This was part of the view Sarah on some snow Lunch in France
Chair lift boredom. Paul, Kate, Debbie and me. SKI AWAY FROM THE LIGHT!! Lunch again. Seems like we had lunch every day. From the mountain with Lake Geneva in the background
Me and Sarah Sunset on the Alps Sarah again upright on her skiis Arty type shot
Sky, snow and trees. Inside where we ate. A Party, one night Coming down the mountain in a bus.



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