a weekend in zermatt

so its almost been a full year in switzeraland (with all extenuating circumstances aside) and i finally saw the matterhorn. we spent the weekend in zermatt celebrating a friend's birthday with 30+ people. this shot of the most famous mountain in europe looking pretty fierce was taken from gornergrat.

we stayed in at the theodul apartments on a side street in the middle of town. the rooms were clean and the balconies were big. the skiing was decent for december (so i'm told). and the group was full of energy and good cheer.








on friday, we hung out this awesome bar - cinema - gallery called vernissage. it had some pretty amazing modern paintings of the matterhorn in different lights. and the cinema had this incredible old school movie projector. the place was rad and i recommend it to anyone passing through town.

saturday night was even better. we hiked 40 minutes up to a friend's bergrestaurant for an outdoor apero of gluweine and processco, and then continued on to the bergrestaurant blatten. there we ate a traditional swiss meal of salad, rosti, desert buffet and lots of wine. it was cosy and good. by the time we left, there were huge chunky snow flakes falling from the sky and all the snow machines were doing their thing. we walked back to zermatt in the dark.