what do you do if your child has hardly seen any mountains at all in her life and your husband claims the rockies are the only peak worth climbing? admittedly we have seen some spectacular mountain ranges in the us, but let's not forget that i learned skiing at the tender age of 4 and that my then hometown was just a short hop into the alps. so i felt a certain need to take rike and deac into the white (and grey and green) world of the 3000er to wassen and andermatt this summer, just to show off a bit.
the hotel alte post in wassen on the gotthartpass, which already housed good ol' goethe on his way to italy, became our place and we were smitten by the friendly welcome. it was just when I mentioned that we would now climb onto the gurschenalp that they startet making faces: rike here gives a fine look of a mountain bison, and deac reminds me vagely of the alm oehi from "heidi". only me then to look prep and pretty and keep the family together!
but just like me they also truly enjoyed the glorious views from the mountain tops and a flash of pride when my europe sceptic husband muttered 'impressive'...plus spledid isolation at the peak - just us!
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