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John is a member of the Slough Writers group which has met weekly for over 50 years. He has won the 2020 Slough Writers annual article award for Short Cuts - a piece about his own experience while on a ski trip in Verbier, Switzerland. ALSO READ:  Instead of returning to the village using ski-lifts, John decided to take what he thought was a short cut. The serious mistake left the writer with a terrifying choice – spend the night in an uninhabited area closed off to skiers or risk a...

Print Article A gondola in the Alpine resort of Verbier, a favourite with British tourists but which this year will see little activity Fabrice COFFRINI Text size Switzerlands ski resorts were set to boom with snow-seeking British winter tourists -- but the flight ban because of the new Covid-19 variant raging in England has put those Christmas plans on ice. In plush Verbier, 1,500 metres up in the Alps, hoteliers were left struggling to deal with Mondays ruling by the Sw...

Highly likely that variant Covid virus has reached Switzerland, say officials Many of the recently arrived British tourists are thought to be headed for the ski slopes. Keystone / Valentin Flauraud Some of the 10,000 British holidaymakers who travelled to Switzerland in the last week are almost certainly carrying the new Covid-19 variant, a government official said on Tuesday. This content was published on December 22, 2020 - 16:25 December 22, 2020 - 16:25 swissinfo.ch/mga Tanja Stadler, a mem...

COVID-19: Switzerland to track British tourists on ski slopes Fears of a mutated coronavirus variant have Swiss authorities working to track down thousands of British tourists who arrived ahead of a travel ban. Unlike some of its neighbors, Switzerland has kept its ski slopes open Swiss authorities on Tuesday are trying to trace thousands of visitors from Britain, many thought to be headed for the Alpine countrys ski slopes, on fears they might import southern Englands new mutant coronavirus...

Despite news that some ski resorts in Switzerland have begun to close, as governments across Europe react to the continued spread of coronaviru, the majority have chosen to remain open, for now. From tomorrow (Tuesday) the non-EU nation will enter a ‘light’ lockdown, with restaurants, sports and recreation centres ordered to close for a month, as the country struggles to curb rising cases of the virus. “Our (infection rate over the last two weeks) is three times higher than Spain...

UPDATE 1-Swiss ban UK, South Africa travellers, believe mutant virus is circulating Reuters 12/21/2020 (Adds details from news conference) ZURICH, Dec 21 (Reuters) - Swiss officials who banned travel from Britain and South Africa on Monday on fear of mutant coronavirus variants that are spreading rapidly in those countries believe a new strain is likely already in Switzerland, despite not having detected it. The Swiss government, among nations to levy travel restrictions, ordered people who h...

Could Prince Andrew be willing to make a stunning multi-million-pound loss on a quick sale of his Verbier skiing chalet? My spies tell me the Prince has told agents to accept £5 million for the property if a deal can be done by Christmas.  The seven-bedroom lodge, jointly owned with his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson, went on sale for £18.3 million earlier this year.  The pair are said to be desperate to shift it to repay part of a reported £6.7 million debt. A spokesman for the Prince said: ‘It...

Is Prince Andrew set to lose £13million on a ski chalet sale? Alistair Foster, Joanna Bell And Sophie Cockerham For The Mail On Sunday © Provided by Daily Mail MailOnline logo Could Prince Andrew be willing to make a stunning multi-million-pound loss on a quick sale of his Verbier skiing chalet? My spies tell me the Prince has told agents to accept £5 million for the property if a deal can be done by Christmas.  The seven-bedroom lodge, jointly owned with his ex-wife Sarah...

1 / of 3 Skiing spread coronavirus across Europe at the start of the pandemic. In Switzerland the slopes are full again By Europe correspondent Linton Besser and Andrew Greaves in Verbier, Switzerland Posted SatSaturday 19 updated SatSaturday 19 In Switzerland, where skiing is a way of life slopes remain open despite the pandemic. ( Share Print text only Cancel In 1875, in Airolo, Switzerland, grazier Giocondo Dotta strapped two planks of timber to his feet to reach cattle stranded by the snow...

Dec. 19, 2020 8:00 am ET ST. MORITZ, Switzerland—Rainer Pototschnig just wanted to go skiing. This year, his choice was Switzerland or Switzerland. All other countries around the Alps are closed for ski tourism because of the Covid-19 pandemic, so the 46-year-old from Vienna, Austria, got up at 3 a.m. on a recent morning and drove eight hours with his girlfriend to reach this upscale Swiss resort. The couple stayed in a hotel and avoided crowds while skiing. “I thought this out. I...