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Travel / Switzerland / Diary
Published
January 28, 2026
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I spend most of the year somewhere warm, and the trip I look forward to most is the one where I cannot feel my hands.
Snowboarding, a town that goes dark at four, and dinner that is a pot of melted cheese on a table between us. There is nothing to do in the evening, which is the entire point.
The mountain
First lift, every day. The runs are empty for the first hour and you get about four of them before the rest of the mountain arrives, which is worth the alarm.
I am a mediocre snowboarder and I have stopped minding. Four good runs and a long lunch is a better day than eight runs and shredded legs.
The fondue argument
It is not a sophisticated meal and it is the best one of the trip. A pot of cheese, bread, pickles, and two hours where nobody is going anywhere.
Order the pickles. Every table gets them and everyone ignores them, and they are the thing that makes the second half of the pot possible.
The town after dark
Zurich in January is cold and blue and closes early. There is very little to do and that is the recommendation — it is the only trip I take where the evening has no agenda.
