Here are some pictures from my Switzerland vacation. Where else can you find snow in August?

This is the Matterhorn mountain. There is a group of people who climb it almost every day. You can join them too.

The village looks great. Smaller hotels, plenty of rooms to rent. This is a pedestrian village, which means no gasoline cars allowed. You have to park your car in the nearby village and then take a train to Zermatt.

Here's me buying Swiss chocolate in Geneva. A camera adds 40 lbs, mmkay? :)

This is an interesting device - a mixing machine. It doesn't require a bartender to posess any skills, just press the right button.

It's the last week of August. The weather in the village is 15 degrees Celcius. You have to go 3000 meters up the mountain to get to the snow. There is a chain of gondolas that take you there.

In winter time you can take the same gondola up and then ski down aaaaall the way to the village. These are not your typical short slopes of the US East Coast. It might take you some time to get all the way down.

Once you've arrived at the top of the mountain by the gondola, there is a tunnel that takes you to the opposite side of the mountain top.

Beautiful view. Notice that there are no chair lifts. Only t-bars.