Last time I wrote I left it with us strolling through Zermatt and heading towards the mountains. To be exact. we had arranged to go on the Matterhorn Glacier Paradise excursion, using our half-fare rail cards. This trip involved taking 4 gondolas up the mountains and once at the top you had a panoramic view of 38 peaks of the Alps. It was set to be a beautiful day, little did I know at the time that it was going to get extra special.
So we headed on up the mountain, working our way through the various gondolas. You can get off at each stage and go exploring if you wish, but we decided we wanted to go all the way up first and explore on our way down if we wanted to.
Arriving at the top, it's safe to say the view was spectacular! We made our way up in the lift to the viewing platform that sets you at 3883m, and able to see the French, Italian and Swiss Alps. In the distance is Mont Blanc (the highest mountain in Europe and somewhere that we had driven through on our very first road trip) and it is also possible to see Jungfrau where we had been only the day before!
The views were really something else, but with limited space on the viewing platform, and a reasonable number of people already up there, we soon decided to head back down to more open space. Little did I know Paul was leading me down to another area with the intention of asking me something...
To see for yourselves what happened, just clickety click on the image above, and it should take you to the video... Let's just say, I was a bit surprised!
After I had got over the shock, we headed into the restaurant that is at the top of the mountain, and we got some lunch and a drink for us to celebrate with.
Then we headed down into the Glacier Palace which had some beautiful ice carvings and was a pretty beautiful experience. They had genuinely carved into the Matterhorn Glacier to put this display there, and I couldn't stop staring at the glittering ceilings and walls.
And this right here is how Adventuring Hills was born. In just a few months I will become Mrs Hill, and the hills (mountains) of Switzerland will be forever dear to us... It's definitely not an experience I will ever forget, and it all happened exactly 6 months ago today!
So we headed on up the mountain, working our way through the various gondolas. You can get off at each stage and go exploring if you wish, but we decided we wanted to go all the way up first and explore on our way down if we wanted to.
Arriving at the top, it's safe to say the view was spectacular! We made our way up in the lift to the viewing platform that sets you at 3883m, and able to see the French, Italian and Swiss Alps. In the distance is Mont Blanc (the highest mountain in Europe and somewhere that we had driven through on our very first road trip) and it is also possible to see Jungfrau where we had been only the day before!
The views were really something else, but with limited space on the viewing platform, and a reasonable number of people already up there, we soon decided to head back down to more open space. Little did I know Paul was leading me down to another area with the intention of asking me something...
Throughout our trip we had been doing the odd Facebook live video here and there, mainly just to share our adventures with our friends and family. So I thought nothing else of it when Paul started a live video to share the fantastic views we were enjoying... What I didn't expect was what came next.
To see for yourselves what happened, just clickety click on the image above, and it should take you to the video... Let's just say, I was a bit surprised!
After I had got over the shock, we headed into the restaurant that is at the top of the mountain, and we got some lunch and a drink for us to celebrate with.
Then we headed down into the Glacier Palace which had some beautiful ice carvings and was a pretty beautiful experience. They had genuinely carved into the Matterhorn Glacier to put this display there, and I couldn't stop staring at the glittering ceilings and walls.
I was also distracted by my glittering ring as well, but it just seemed all the more perfect that the sparkles of the walls matched the sparkle of my ring. Every time I look at my ring now, I think back to the mountains of Zermatt.
And this right here is how Adventuring Hills was born. In just a few months I will become Mrs Hill, and the hills (mountains) of Switzerland will be forever dear to us... It's definitely not an experience I will ever forget, and it all happened exactly 6 months ago today!
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