Swiss Seasons

This picture was taken this morning at the Grand-Saint-Bernard Pass, in Valais (Switzerland). In the background, you can see some of the buildings belonging to the Saint-Bernard hospice, which has been keeping this area for almost a thousand years. The big tourist attraction here, if you aren’t a catholic pilgrin are naturally, the Saint-Bernard dogs, who used to be employed as rescue and guiding dogs in Winter by the chanoines who were living at the hospice. Nowadays, they’ll be content to simply pose with you for a nice picture and take you for a walk (because, if you aren’t an experienced animal professional, you’ll have a hard time giving a walk to these little monsters who weight between 70 and 100kg when they are grown-up).