Last week Chris “Chief” Warzecha brought me and four of our Thun Tiger Junior players up to Zweisimmen, Switzerland to conduct a football demonstration camp for some young people.
“Chief” is an amazing person. He coaches our offensive team for the Tigers – but in the “real” world he is a doctor specializing in surgery and the replacement of hips. I suspect he is called “Chief” for many other reasons – like he might just be in charge of the whole department.
The football camp was awesome and I know the young people who were participating enjoyed being around our contingent of Tigers.
Along the way up to Zweisimmen from our hometown of Thun I noted aloud many times the beauty of the scenery as we made our way higher into the Bernese Oberland. Then I reiterated it on the way home as well.
I have said this to other people before – If you look at Switzerland it’s like someone took every possible shade of green and painted the landscape in this amazing country with it. This place is simply the most unique “postcard” you can see.
Well, after our little camp one of the participant’s Mothers told me she believed that Zweisimmen was one of the most beautiful places in Switzerland.
But, she said people with a lot of money would make their way higher into the Alps to the town of Gstaad.
She told me that although Gstaad was not far from Zweisimmen it was where the “International crowd” went to spend their money because the fantastic skiing, world class hotels and restaurants were there.
So today I thought I would jump on the train from Thun and ramble on up to Gstaad to find out for myself.
Well, I do have some free time you know.
If it is possible the trip up through the Bernese Alps was even more beautiful and green than earlier in the week. (Well, possibly so – after all the sun was out this time).
As with many of my other episodes and (mis)adventures in football I did make one small mistake. I got on the wrong train in Thun … hey, but at least it was going in the right direction!
The wrong train got me to Spietz … I knew that Spietz was on the way to Gstaad so no panic – but had I stayed on that particular train who know where I would have ended up – perhaps Warsaw or Milan or maybe even Honolulu – I don’t know.
So, I climbed off in Spietz and waited for the correct train to get me out of there and through Zweisimmen to Gstaad.
A little while later after traveling through the magical green scenery and mountains of this section of the Alps I found myself at my objective – Gstaad.
Jump off (note I didn’t say “fall off” like I actually did a few weeks ago in Bern) 
the train and head downtown to get a feel for the place.
the train and head downtown to get a feel for the place.Immediately I became aware that there was a big tennis
tournament going on down in the center city. The “Swiss Open” (now the “J Safra Sarasin Swiss Open”) was taking place.
tournament going on down in the center city. The “Swiss Open” (now the “J Safra Sarasin Swiss Open”) was taking place.This is a bigtime event. You have to be kidding me – bigtime tennis here in the Alps. I shit you not – this is bigtime tennis!
Well wouldn’t it be cool to get some pictures of that?? I wanted to get into the stadium and just take some pictures. Not really to pay and watch a game (“Match”) where they use “love” for a score.
I almost talked a young guard into letting me in for free. But ….. not so fast Batman …. His boss showed up and he had to kick me out! Well, hell I don’t like tennis anyway.
Gstaad, this is a beautiful place. But, there is no doubt there is that vibe you feel in fancy places like Aspen, Taos, Angel Fire or Jackson Hole in the US.You have the small airport and helipad for the people who have the Rolls Royce or Maserati at home in the driveway. Or perhaps a Lear Jet waiting to sweep them away to ski or play golf.
Well, if you don’t understand that feeling trust me …. I certainly do because I am one of those guys! Hah! dream on.
I did see some of the “beautiful” people – I think. I do say “I think” becasue I wouldn’t know who they were anyway. I don’t know any “beautiful people” in the real world.But, there were certainly some people who knew they were beautiful by the way they dressed and walked 
around Gstaad.
around Gstaad.No matter what .. if you have a chance … GOOO! – the train ride is worth the trip. I promise you.
Ahhh… but me I’m more a Zweisimmen guy myself!
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