Greetings from Kuhtai! We’re skiing this week in a tiny little town about 30 miles outside of Innsbruck, Austria. The town is the highest elevation ski-town in Austria and has a population of 13 in the summer time and about...
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For those of you who have never skied in Zermatt, passing by the Matterhorn as you continue on the 9 mile-long run down into town, this first-person-view video by me (Chris, with accompanying music and captions) will...
Who needs European hot chocolate? We had Swiss Miss! More good views of the Matterhorn. We had clear blue skies for the last few days of skiing. Amy and I were totally sore and only skiied half days, but Chris was a super all...
Up up we go in a packed gondola. Everyone was ready to enjoy the slopes after yesterdays stormy weather. After our crazy stormy day, we headed up into the cloudy mountains to find that the sun was shining at the top...
Here we are in Sparky’s, our favorite bar with free wifi and really good potato wedges. We spent a lot of time there checking our email and blogging. And Amy needed to chat with her boyfriend! Okay, so we sat...
Our first day in Zermatt! It was neat to wake up, look out the window and see the Matterhorn. The day was perfect blue skies and not too cold, a great day to start our trip. We stopped by a pastry shop to grab some treats...
On our last day, the snowing stopped and the sun finally came out! It was a beautiful morning, so we headed off to the slopes. Here is a view from the chairlift. The chairlifts are crazy, they take you to the top of huge...
So we cooked meals at the apartment in BKK (Bad Kleinkirchheim) every night except this night. Both the kids were sick so we waited until the last night to go out. We tried to go early in the evening, but when we arrived at this...
So here we are on the chair lift that is just across from our hotel. It was actually raining like crazy down below, which isn’t that fun sitting on a chairlift getting drenched in the rain. Up top there was some awesome...
Our 6 day ski passes came with a 3 day pass to “the Thermes” (pronounced “terms”), a thermal bath and spa. It’s basically a big swimming pool complex, where instead of having heated water the pools...