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I'm off there next Friday for a few days. Anyone know anything about it? The Reichenbach Falls (of Holmes/Moriarty fame) are there, apparently, that's all I know.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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richmond, The meringue was supposedly invented there, although this is disputed! 
Sorry, don't know anything about the skiing. I once visited the region in Summer and saw the nearby Aareschlucht gorge, which is quite impressive.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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The Reichenbach falls are accessed by a funicular, which is closed in winter unfortunately.
It's a nice place - proper little ski-town in winter, and they've really gone for the Sherlock Holmes connection. the whole place is like a life-sized museum 
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Went at new year 3/4 years ago. Nice place, real village, intermediate skiing, everyone speaks ridiculously good English! Apres a bit on the quiet side
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Thanks chaps. It's the schoolboy races I'm going for (or my son is, anyway, I shall try to avoid them as far as possible). We're staying in Hasliberg, SFAIK, which looks very quiet. Fine by me, I only need one bar.
Glad to learn of the meringue claim. I shall try to get to the bottom of it, not that I'm keen on meringues, but one has to take an interest. Apparently Verbier claims to have invented 'doing words' and Les Menuires reckons that fertiliser originated there. Stories that Beaver Creek invented Vaseline should be treated sceptically.
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richmond, done one day a while ago. I don't remember much except that the restaurants are good value, it has great views to the Berner Oberland and there is a really annoying uphill run to one of the lifts.
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Been there, done that. A very pleasant spot, enough to keep you amused for a long weekend but not a good option for longer for most people, I don't think (65km(?) of pistes; we didn't ski as much as we might have, because of the lads' racing, but 2 days would enable you to ski everything). A couple of hours drive from Zurich airport, train and a short transfer a possibility. Skiing is in a bowl well above the town of Meiringen (which we didn't visit). We stayed in Hasliberg-Reuti, on an alp above Meiringen; I doubt that it's often possible to ski right down to Meiringen, which is linked to H-R by cable car.
We stayed in the Hotel Viktoria, which was unexceptionable, although it seemed to be aimed at very large groups (such as the one we were in) and to have a vaguely christian ethos, which was a bit weird. Every room has a balcony with a great view across the valley. Good and plentiful buffet grub, although very limited choice. There is another hotel in H-R (with convenient lift access and probably more character than the Viktoria), and others scattered along the alp, although few with convenient lift access. The bubble was just over the road from the hotel, which was just as well as we had to take the first lift up each day. Apres ski is basically the hotel bars; take a book.
One side of the bowl stays in the shade for most or all of the day, so the snow on that side was in great nick. The other side was softening up by lunchtime, especially on Mon and Tues. More snow would be welcome (we couldn't ski down to the hotel). The place is better for beginners (though there are a number of T bars) and intermediates than for advanced skiers, although there are some very enjoyable slopes. Can't say much about the off piste; my son and his team mates did some on the shaded side, and seemed to enjoy it. There's a smallish fun park thing for show offs. Not a great spot for boarders, I don't think, because of the T bars and the number of flats, although there were a number of boarders around. Mountain restaurants pretty much what you'd expect, not too pricey, but not cheap, reasonable quality and like the slopes, reasonably quiet most of the time.
I'm not sure that I shall rush back, but if I found myself conveniently placed for it for a weekend, I'd be very happy to spend a few days there. If you want a 'local resort for local people' within a couple of hours of Zurich, don't need miles and miles of piste, notably challenging runs or exciting apres ski, it's well worth a visit.
I was unable to settle the meringue question, I'm afraid. They were offered for pud on the dinner buffet each evening, and the one I tried was fine (probably made in a huge factory in China). Hasliberg produces it's own special tart, which looked fairly ghastly.
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richmond, Nice report. Were the races a success?
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telford_mike, the lads enjoyed themselves greatly. They won silver medals in their class, which they were pretty pleased with, especially as 3 of the 4 were novices. They had a world class coach while they were there, and their poker also improved enormously.
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richmond, Excellent 
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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What was the sort of cost of drinks (hot and cold, not alcoholic) in the mountain restaurants? I'm asking because we are taking a school party there soon and their parents want an idea how much cash to send with them.
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Nice little place and a gem in fresh snow.
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