Friday, May 19, 2006
03/2006: Saas Fee: 'can’t shop at lunch time …'
Snowing heavily.
I’d heard that the locals in the Saas Fee valley have a rather brusque attitude - and have found it to be quite true today. People were a lot friendlier in Zermatt.
Am having a touch of déjà vu, many of the hotels here have the same names as the ones I saw in Zermatt. I’m not saying the Swiss are unimaginative but….
It’s really, really cold today; I’m wearing 2 layers of high tech thermals bought in New Zealand, a Tesco’s cashmere polo-neck jumper, a fleece and an expensive ski jacket and trousers borrowed from my sister and I’m still not warm
The shops all shut for 2 hours between 12pm and 2pm – including the supermarkets. If my local Sainsbury’s shut at lunchtime, there would almost certainly be an ugly riot. Saw a Body Shop which also sells cigarettes and booze, which seems like a contradictory combination.
The hotel is half board again and dinner here is a 6-course extravaganza which includes an as-much-as you-can-eat salad buffet and an extensive cheese board. The whole thing takes about 2 hours which is a bit boring when you’re sitting on your own. But, I gamely plough through it all and waddle, stuffed, back to my room.
Snowing heavily.
I’d heard that the locals in the Saas Fee valley have a rather brusque attitude - and have found it to be quite true today. People were a lot friendlier in Zermatt.
Am having a touch of déjà vu, many of the hotels here have the same names as the ones I saw in Zermatt. I’m not saying the Swiss are unimaginative but….
It’s really, really cold today; I’m wearing 2 layers of high tech thermals bought in New Zealand, a Tesco’s cashmere polo-neck jumper, a fleece and an expensive ski jacket and trousers borrowed from my sister and I’m still not warm
The shops all shut for 2 hours between 12pm and 2pm – including the supermarkets. If my local Sainsbury’s shut at lunchtime, there would almost certainly be an ugly riot. Saw a Body Shop which also sells cigarettes and booze, which seems like a contradictory combination.
The hotel is half board again and dinner here is a 6-course extravaganza which includes an as-much-as you-can-eat salad buffet and an extensive cheese board. The whole thing takes about 2 hours which is a bit boring when you’re sitting on your own. But, I gamely plough through it all and waddle, stuffed, back to my room.
# posted by hotelreviewer @ 12:06 pm 
