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Article: Ski sun days LONDON ESCAPE; Can't wait for the new ski season? There's no need to hang up your boots, the Swiss resort of Saas-Fee offers the chance to ski all year while the sun shines, as Gavanndra Hodge discovers.
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- June 6, 2003
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Byline: GAVANNDRA HODGE
In Switzerland they had brotherly love, 500 years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.' So said Harry Lime in Orson Welles' version of The Third Man. A little bit harsh, I thought to myself as I sipped an icy Edelweiss beer (Swiss), set to work on a plate of rosti (delicious, and singularly Swiss) and positioned myself to take in the epic view of the Mischabels (Switzerland's highest mountain range) gleaming white in the summer sun. Obviously Harry Lime had never been to Saas-Fee.
This compact, car-free little Alpine village is set 1,800m above sea level at the foot of a glacier. Not only does this ...
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