Verbier. Home of the surreal.

June 30, 2011 | By tom18a

There’s a reason things have been quiet on the Verbier blog front. It’s because things have been quiet in Verbier full-stop. But now there are more humans in town and it’s all gearing up for summer season.

So The Powers That Be have decided it’s time to add some art. And they have clearly been watching Alice in Wonderland or listening to too much Velvet Underground, because this is what they’ve built.

Interesting eh?

I always say that no Mountain tourist destinantion is ever truly complete without a forty foot tulip.

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   Thomas Renshaw

   30th June 2011 at 12:14 pm

   I have consulted the CK gardener and we agree that it is clearly a rose not a tulip. Come on now Performance, that is elementary giant botany.
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      Guy

      1st July 2011 at 10:09 pm

      Good point Tom. But would a rose by any other name be as tall? Or expensive? My next door neighbor was going bonkers about the price the commune paid for the art on the roundabout. 50 grand Swiss I’m told…