We went hunting for Edelweiss one late summer’s day on the mountainside above La Tzoumaz. See if you can read the whole story without bursting into song! A few weeks ago we bumped into a local couple out hiking up the Col des Mines. Leaning on their hiking poles, they were delighted to stop and share their […]
We often wonder what it’s like for our clients to have a summer chalet holiday in La Tzoumaz, so we decided to find out for ourselves. Most of our visitors are not single families or groups of friends, but are three-generational families or two-family groups. To simulate these conditions, we recruited some friends whose children […]
Switzerland has amazing mountains. We love hiking the mountains, especially with my older children (who were aged 5 & 7 at the time of writing this piece). The question: How to transfer a love of hiking to children? Here are 10 ideas and 10 tips to get children hiking. Designing the hike 1) Go up! […]
From La Tzoumaz to the lake at the Col du Sanetsch We took our clients on a guided Harley Davidson tour from La Tzoumaz to Sanetsch. It was a beautiful, sunny day and the scenery was mind-blowing… the wiggly roads were jam-packed with hairpin bends and long winding corners… just what we were looking for! See the […]
La Tzoumaz is a great base for day trips. We took a day trip to Crans Montana with friends in the summer to check it out. Hiking, biking and browsing the mountain shops are on the menu, accompanied by a panoramic picnic and some marmotte spotting. It is only a short hour in the car from La […]
There is a pleasing variety of options to get down (and up) the mountainside in La Tzoumaz. In summer, by far the most hilarious has to be the trottinette scooter. We climbed out of the telecabin at the top of the Savoleyres and were shown to our trottinettes by the lift operator. “It’ll be a bit steep […]
My brother and his wife came to visit this week so I took them out to the Maison de la Foret to show off the beauty of our forested mountainside and explore the birds and the flowers. I had declared we would be going for a “nice easy walk on the flat”, yet I had forgotten that the […]
Here are just a few of the millions and millions of flowers I have seen whilst out and about on the mountainside this week. It’s true that some are to be found in people’s gardens, but many are just growing wild and free! People tend to mow their lawns and strim their steeply-banked gardens around the […]
I’ve always loved the mountains for their raw, wild beauty. They are huge and untamed. Majestic and un-mastered. They seem so massive and unmoveable, but were somehow thrown up by the shifting of the Earth’s tectonic plates millions of years ago. Now that I live in the mountains, I feel the need to step closer, […]
From the age of 5, I used to dream about skiing for 51 weeks of the year. As a family, we’d look through our printed photos from the previous years, and shout excitedly at Franz Klammer and Pirmin Zurbriggen on Ski Sunday. We’d even sit in a line on the sofa and make chairlift-bumping-over-a-pylon noises […]
Children love coming to La Tzoumaz. Here are some of our favorite activities. Walking The forests are magical for children as well as for adults. The Bisses are a great introduction to hiking, being flat and full of interest. The Sentier des Sens from the maison de la foret is full of activities and snippets […]