Zermatt, Chicane and final days in Morzine

Hello all

Sorry for the late final blog post. Things have been very busy since we returned back home. 

Our final week in resort was fantastic. We were very lucky to go on a trip to Zermatt for a few days. We drove for a couple of hours to the Swiss resort. You arrive at the bottom of the mountain, park the car and unload all your luggage. Here you travel up the mountain on a train for about 15 minutes and arrive at what felt like a small version of London Waterloo! (Only 5 platforms!)

 

Zermatt is a pedestrian only town and once you arrive out the station there are electric cars/buggy's/noddy cars waiting to take you to your hotel. The town is fantastic, very big and has everything there. 

We explored the town during the afternoon. I absolutely loved it. It had a lot of character to it, lovely hotels, chalets and old buildings. Different areas to the town, parts had modern hotels with private little cable cars to take you from the road up the hill to the hotel. Others were in older cobbled streets with grain stores around. Our hotel was linked to the hotel next door, which had a fantastic lift and dark tunnel with coloured lights on the walls down to the main street level by foot. It felt like you were in a James Bond film walking along it! 

Thursday we woke for a lovely buffet breakfast, clear blue skies and a fantastic view of the Matterhorn ready for a big days skiing.

 

We headed straight up to the glacier first thing and at 3883m we had perfect views. The slopes were in great  condition, as if we were skiing in January.

 

 From here we travelled across the resort to explore the Gornergrat and Rothorn mountains before the end of the day. Very close to the top of the Gornegrat mountain we found a Ice Hotel and Bar. We explored inside of the hotel, completely made out of ice and snow there were lots of rooms and a bar. Windows made out of ice blocks with frozen flowers for decoration in them. carvings on the walls it was quite an amazing place.

 

When we returned to Morzine it was ready for the last weekend of skiing and closing parties on the slopes.  The Saturday had a little bit of skiing, picnicking and slacklining by the river whilst the Sunday, final day on the slopes, we had snow falling and a little dusting of fresh snow over night. We both went up to Avoriaz with Emma, James and Paige. A good party atmosphere was outside Chez Flo whilst we danced in our ski boots to Chicane. That evening the 5 of us all got together and cooked a big final fondu with 5 different cheeses! We thought we have to finish in style.

 

 

 

Tuesday morning came around and at 5am the car was packed up with all our stuff and we made a fantastic journey back to the uk. Another great season was completed and many memories and fun had. Thank you to everyone who made it fantastic for us. 

Ant and Bex xx