I didn’t stay in Zürich long after I came back from St. Moritz. I have been taking part in an Alpha course this semester, and we went on a weekend in Davos, Graubünden together. Davos, a small city and the most elevated one in Europe is an interesting place with unproportionally many shops for just 10 000 people. This place really lives off tourists and people attending various small conferences.
In Zürich the weather is business as usual: no snow and relatively foggy. When we arrived in Davos the weather there was also as usual: Much snow and clear skies. Yummy!
We had a lot of teaching and worship mixed with food and fellowship. We had the Saturday afternoon off, and most of us went to do something that I haven’t done in many years: sledding! You definitely don’t have to be young to enjoy that, trust me.
But for some strange reason the snow wasn’t just used for peaceful purposes like sledding. Some of the people in the above photo returned home with snow both on the outside and inside of their clothes…
When we came back to the apartment we had more predigt followed by a feast of Fondue. I considered finishing the cheese in one big gulp, but I chickened out.
In the night we made Glühwein, but only after building a bar disk in the snow outside the apartment. We had a lot of fun building, and also here there were some incidents with flying snow…
I made many new friends and experienced both the very nice city of Davos and some awesome moments of prayer this weekend. Many moments will stay in my heart for a long time!
The next Swiss place to visit will definitely be Walensee. We passed by there on the way back home and it was a stunning sight.
For all you photography geeks: Look closely on the last photo you’ll see the little thing with the red dot standing on the “bar disk”. That is my trusty SB-800 firing from remote with the wide area diffusor enabled. Camera set to Manual exposure on tripod, fully automatic TTL flash command mode, photo taken via the very useful IR remote control I had in my hand + timed release. A few simple tricks like that and you’ll get awesome results and impressed friends!