ex-Marine (husband, Steve) has one stock answer whenever friends/acquaintances comment that they’d love to travel with us. “No you don’t! Perhaps this incident will explain his emphatic answer. Winter is coming and with that, my thoughts turn to snowshoeing, a favorite winter sport. If ex-Marine had his druthers, he’d spend the winter either in a [...]
“Travel Tips & Advice on Davos”
When Snowshoeing on A Ski Hill in Austria Goes Bad
December 8th, 2009 
Sheila Simkin 
Posted in Austria, Davos, Engadine Valley, Switzerland, Zermatt 
Tags: adventure, austria, culture, destination, events, food, hotels, important sights, log, nature, sightseeing, snowshoing, Soll, touring, transportation, travel, winter sports 
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Summer in Davos, Switzerland
April 27th, 2007 Sheila Simkin Plan a trip to Switzerland this summer. Re-watch The Sound of Music (even though it was filmed in Austria the scenery is the same)…re-read Heidi (even though that was filmed in Germany)…practice some yodeling…think about scrumptious pastries and if that’s not enough… We’ve traveled the country from one end to another with ease but I’m [...]
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The Rhinerhorn and Jacobshorn on A Winter’s Day in Davos, Switzerland
April 26th, 2007 Sheila Simkin Another bit of information. There is always a TV station in both Austria and Switzerland that does nothing but show all the ski mountains, temperature and snow conditions every morning, along with a dedicated TV station in each resort letting you know what is going on that day. Before heading to the mountains on this [...]
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Nordic Walking Around Davos Platz, Switzerland
April 25th, 2007 Sheila Simkin Perhaps because ex-Marine and I are getting older, this was the first time that we noticed the inordinate amount of people walking…not hiking…walking. And the average age was at least 70 years old. We saw seniors, slowly walking on the level promenades, up gradual inclines (not climbing), mothers pushing baby carriages and walking hand-in-hand with [...]
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Snowshoeing, Walking and Food – What We Enjoy In Switzerland
April 24th, 2007 Sheila Simkin Swiss towns are so beautiful. We’d start our day tanking up at the ArtHaus Hotel’s typical Swiss buffet breakfast. Four different kinds of cereal, ham, cheese, jams, butter, croissants, hard rolls, wheat breads, two kinds of yoghurt, juice, fruit and coffee. That would see us through the day…easily. Relax a little bit (Europeans are fairly [...]
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Some Miscellaneous Information About Davos, Switzerland
April 23rd, 2007 Sheila Simkin Walking up a side street, we saw this striking, colorful and cheery-looking hotel View image…and went in to see if they could accommodate us and what the prices were. Little did we know that this would turn out to be our lucky day. The ArtHaus Hotel Quisiana is run and owned by the extremely personable [...]
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Davos, Switzerland In The Winter
April 22nd, 2007 Sheila Simkin For Winter, 2007, Davos had many different packages to choose from depending on what category hotel you wanted and whether or not you skied. For example, 7 nights at a ** Hotel, breakfast and dinner daily, welcome drink and 6-day lift ticket cost around 1061 Swiss Francs (SF from no on) or about $800 per [...]
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Visit Davos, Switzerland in Winter or Summer
April 21st, 2007 Sheila Simkin There is nothing not to like about Switzerland except the high prices. Switzerland has always been pricey and probably always will be pricey, but there are ways of working around it and it is definitely worth a little brain-work. I can’t think of country in Europe that makes it easier for novices or pros to [...]
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