The Verbier Sunday markets dates have been confirmed by the Tourist Office.
The Verbier Sunday market dates are -
July: 14th 21st 28th
August : 4th 11th
If you want to set up a stand its 10 chuff per day.
Contact geraldine1936@verbier.ch for more information…..
Summer is almost here and the preparations to get the Verbier centre sportif ready for 8th of June 2013 are well underway. Yes the outdoor pool will be open on the 8th June, and the ice rink “should” be ready as well.
Ice Karting – We will open again for extreme Ice karting (after its annual clean (defrost)) on the 8-9th June. (The ice rink is having new lights fitted). Bookings will be by pre reservation again.
Ice hockey guys check with reception before you head on down to the ice rink, as there are bookings allready (Ice hockey, Ice karting and the annual summer Hockey camps start in the first week of July).
If you fancy a blast on the extreme ice karts please contact us 24 hours in advance as we have to reserve the ice.
Tennis - The Verbier tennis courts are open but book in advance as there are 3 less tennis courts this year
The end of the season approaches here in Verbier, but one of the best days out is the annual trip to the cow fighting down is Orsieres.
Now don’t worry this is not man vs cow, this is cow vs cow (no knives, no horses, no hair pulling) . And as this is a Swiss event there are more wine stalls, cheese stands than cows, all at valais prices!
Now to get there….
Option 1 Cable car to Le Chable – Train to Orsieres (ok you change at Sembrancher), but time the trip back if you want the last cable car back to Verbier (or jump on the bus from Le Chable to Verbier)
Option 2 Get a group together phone MayTaxi….
Option 3 Drive to Orsieres – Down the hill to Sembrancher, turn left as if you are going to the Grand St Bernard, after 15 minutes turn off to Orsieres. (but remember this is a Swiss day out slugging wine and cheese).
Option 4 Sit at home playing the PS 3
Verbier’s Phillipe Roux sports team night out ice karting with Karting Extreme Verbier.
The guys and girls from Phillipe Roux Sports booked their end of season fun with Karting Extreme Verbier. Now, this was always going to be a competitive night, with some of the local rally/ski champions working with Philliple Roux Sports.
Equipe Philippe Roux Sports Verbier Kart sur glace a Karting Extreme Verbier
Hot favourite to win the night’s racing was Phillipe Roux and his co pilot Mélanie Roux, or Mike Coppens sand his co pilot Christophe Roux (Normally found racing a Citroen DS3), and yes I had to have a race with them…
Mike Coppens drifting the inside line!
(above) Mélanie Roux drifting around the ice track in Verbier.
With the practise session over, it was going to be a close race between Phillipe and Mike, but the seasoned rally driver Phillipe Roux set the fastest lap of the night, much to Mike’s frustration. Phillipe did a 20.020 lap and somehow didn’t spin during any of the races (watch the video below to see the race action).
The lap record for the Ice rink is help by Florian Gonon with a time of 19.20…
The new Ski Alternative Ice Kart
Ski Alternative specialises in everything but skiing and snowboarding in and around Verbier. Ice Karting, Cheese Tasting and Husky Dog Sledging, Yoga, Snow shoeing and event management etc.
Ice Karting – Corporate Events in Verbier
Thanks John for your support again this year..
Now we had a million questions about running the night, but we can report what a sucess the night was with these guys!
Pictured below are the guys and girls with their guides (Guides in Red).
Now seven of guys are blind!. Yes Blind!!!
How do they do extreme ice karting you ask? Simple, using the same technique for skiing and sledging, they have a little radio and the guide gives them directions.
What a great night with one of the guys setting a lap of 19.990, the lap record is 19.200.
So the next time you or I complain about bad weather, or a bruise think about what these guys do with their disabilities..
Huge thanks to Harry and the boys/Girls for helping run the night.
Yes it’s that time of year where Verbier opens for the winter 2012/13. As of the 24th November the Verbier lifts will open 7 days a week (limited lifts only).
The following lifts will be operational as of the 24th November.
Verbier Boarding and Skiing:
To prove winter is here the best Apres bar in town, The Fer a Cheval will open its doors on the 23rd November, just in time to welcome the Army boys into town!!
With cold weather forecast for this weekend maybe winter has finally arrivied in Verbier…
Let the Karting Extreme Verbier snow cannons commence blowing!!!
And yes Marco it’s your daughter up on the snowbank again…
The first opening party is the La Channe – 17th November
The ATeam opens in new premises (By Alp food) 02/11/2012
Le Rouge opens Wednesday 7th November 2012
Le Pub Mont Fort opens 2nd November 2012
The Lounge (Farinet hotel) opening TBC
Hotel Farinet Après ski bar opens Mid December (Once the renovation is complete)
Le Dahu will open as soon as there is enough snow to ski to it.
La Vache (The old powder spirit bar) opens ………..(TBC)
Karting Extreme Verbier is open on the Ice Rink, the outdoor track should be open mid Dec.
Fer a Cheval will open for the weekend of the 23rd November
JC’s bar – Name TBC (the old Casita) will open early December as a Sushi bar.
Other Verbier news
Casbah has gone and has been replaced by the trendy The Pot Luck Club.
La Ruinettes restaurant is opening under new management.
The Ice Cube (At La Ruinettes) is under new managment, Zak from the Sandwhich bar is now running the Ice Cube with our lovely Jo Swannell finally getting a day light job!
The Loft is open again this year, so yes another closing party for Kevin and the boys..
Quintessential Estate office has closed, and is now called ROCKEFELLER ESTATES run by Annable Waite.
The famous Offshore restaurant/bar by Medran has been sold, and will be under new ownership for this winter.
La Ruinnette, in Le Chable, is now open and is taking weekly bookings in what was the old Max and Milly’s Bed and Breakfast.
The Wholey Cow. At last we have a new gym function room to do exercise, from circuit training, pilates, yoga and something that the owner won’t tell us about.
New Bruson ski lift is finally approved – Should be ready for the 2013 winter season.
Snow cannons on Savoleyres. Work is on going to get water up to Savoleyres to finally give our racers some hard snow to race train on. (they are also putting snow cannons closer to Le Rouge.
Bonjour! – The first intensive French course of the Verbier winter season is on from the 5th until the 16th of November from 10.00 until 12.00. The price is 180.- per week (or 36.- per day). Contact VLS if you’re interested: info@verbierlanguageschool.com or call them (0041) 079 693 49 85.
The end of day two at the Rallye International du Valais sees the service park move from Sion to Martigny (CERM) in preparation for the local rally stages. Bruson, Verbier, Sembrancher, Champsec, Saxon, Croix de Coeur, Levron, Col du Lein , La Chaux, Le Chable and La Tzoumaz.
The weather forecast for Saturday’s Rallye is cold -6 to -9 with snow!! which will make the rally over Croix de Coeur a tad interesting. Last year TeleVerbier opened the lifts and charged 10 chf to get you up the hill, also this year La Dahu, one of the sponsors of Florian’s rally car, will be open as well.
Tyres – For ERC rally events they are only allowed to change tyres in the service park (Martigny CERM). So local knowledge and luck will play a huge part in doing well in the Verbier stages.
Now Pirelli appear to know something about tyre choice for Saturday’s rally around the Valais..Or maybe they have been watching the Perfomance Verbier’s Blog??
However Little Ellie had the final say on tyre choice for today stages in the Rallye International du Valais .
The video below shows some of the footage of the Rallye International du Valais 2012
Below is the damage caused to Michalle Burri’s Peugout 206 S2000
PS Florian Gonon still holds the lap record at Karting Extreme Verbier 19.2 seconds, set on his second ever lap in an Extreme Ice Kart.