I think you can learn a lot about a city from the coffee shops there. Are they rustic and homey, serving the lattes in hodge-podge mugs? Is it cleanly decorated with white walls and prints, or is it filled with wooden accents and plants? In America we often just grab our coffee and go, but since I work in a coffee shop, I find myself spending about 50% of my time seeing what a coffee shop can say and do for a city.
Tag: Switzerland
Winter
Fields in Geneva
I’m currently in Geneva with my family for the winter holidays. Look for more posts to come as I travel to Basel, Switzerland for the Christmas Markets and Chamonix, France for a ski weekend.
Jake, Samee, and Rory: Castle Exploration
Samee sits in the historical Chilion Castle while listening to the stories on audio books.
Jake ponders the chilling history of the Chillion Castle
Rory sits and experiences the buildings formative history.
Looking out the window, Samee can see the Swiss Alps
Continuing the tour, Samee and Jake think about how people used to live in castles
Imagining they’re the permanent residents of the castle, Jake and Rory discuss how their life would be.
Zermatt
Beautiful Ski Resort in Zermatt Switzerland
Snow capped village
A river will snow covered rocks runs through the village.
The Matterhorn on a clear day
Mysterious and snowy, the Matterhorn almost disappears in a storm.
During the winter of 2012, I was able to learn to ski. So the first on my list of the top three things I learned while in Zermatt was (1) to ski, and that when you’re skiing you should look forward to where you are going. This was helped by me being able to look at the giant moutons around me. (2) I also learned that some ski villages don’t allow cars! We had to park our van and then get on a little elctric trolly to go up to the ski resort. This made the snow super beautiful and stay white! (3) The villagers who were there skied EVERYWHERE. Outside of every restaurant I saw little places for people to stick their skis or ski boots. So cool!
Alyssa in France 