29.09.2024, Yvonne
Wo steckst du? Dein Telefon ist nicht mehr in Funktion. Wollte dich eben anrufen!
24.09.2024, Douglas Barton
This saddens me deeply as my heart lies bleeding for the loss of such a kind and gentle soul.
18.09.2024, Richard Haldi
I'm an Ohio relative of Franziska's late husband, Ulrich Haldi, a grandson of one of Ulrich's cousins who emigrated to a small Swiss settlement in Ohio back in the 1870s near Canton Ohio. I had the pleasure to meet Franziska and spend time with her in the late 1990s when I was working in Paris, and she showed me around Saanen while trying to help me locate the chalet where my grandfather Frederich Haldi was born. My grandfather left Saanen as a 13-year-old Ziegenhirt and died in Ohio as a 76-year-old, prosperous wholesale cheese dealer, as many of the Swiss-American immigrants were in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Fortunately, Franziska and I were able to locate the Haldi-Matti chalet, a chalet built in 1666 that is located on the north side of the Oeystr. near where the train tracks cross the road by the airport. The old-timers in that area told me the area was called "ins Siberia' because the winter sun was often blocked by the Rueblihorn. Franziska was such a delightfully gifted, personable, and giving person. She willingly shared with me many of her wonderful memories of her years with Yehudi Menuhin -- whom she revered so highly -- as well as delightful aspects of Haldi-history in the Saanenland, many fascinating details that I could share with Haldi relatives back in Ohio. It was such a privilege to get to meet her and spend time with her in Saanen up on the 'Halten.' My sincerest condolences to her family in magnificent Saanenland and in Bern. A wonderful, wonderful lady, indeed, was Franziska Haldi! Richard Haldi / Canton, Ohio Sept. 2024
09.09.2024, Roberto Manfè
I worked for this man in 1997 at the Palace and it was one of the best experience of my life. I will always be thankful to have crossed path with such a gentleman. May he rest in peace Roberto Manfè
05.09.2024, Susanne.Maken
My name was Susan Freese -Pennefather and I was a pupil at Marie Jose1959-1962 approximately! I would love to link in with friends and I think we should have a school reunion in Gstaad . What does anyone else think ? Susanne Macken !
21.08.2024, Robert
Great that Le Rosey expands, but what a pity that visitors arriving by train will be “welcomed” by such industrial appearing building, not in the chalet style like the rest of the iconic village.
15.08.2024, Valerie Carter
I am visiting Gstaad next week . I was looking forward to visiting the kitchen shop in Gstaad where I have shopped at on my many holidays in Switzerland Desolate to hear it has closed I like to shop for cooking things in person and NOT on line I am 82
04.08.2024, Lydia Soifer
I attended Chalet Flora from l947 to 1950 and came there from New York where my family had managed to spend the war years. I liked the schooling very much and, of course, the skiing. Also the freezing swimming pool. I remember well Tante Flora, Mademoiselles Tschopp (always wondered about her relationship with Tante F), Schwab, and Quindet . Also a French teacher, Mademoiselle Barthelet, from whom I received the first and only anti-semitism of my life:: "espece de juive errante". I walked out of the classroom without permission, and then, not daring to knock on Tante Flora's door, I eventually walked back in. She never dared say a word. Many years later, I visited Tante Flora (I was living in Geneva and attending University there), asked about her, and learned that she had been a" collaborative horizontal." But that single experience gave me a lifelong distaste for France and the French. I now live in Southbury, Connecticut, and if anyone is near, I would be delighted to hear from you. Lydia Soifer
04.08.2024, Silvia
Oh, yes, how many memories from Chalet Flora. I was there in 1954 and 1956. Just 7 years old and so terribly homesick. I am 77 now, was born in Brazil. We were two Brazilian. Vera Maier and myself.. Silvia Aron Now, I love Gstaad. It’s still quaint in those crazy busy times…and I went back many times with my Italian husband. But all I have read today brings exactly the same memories . Thanks, it was part of my childhood!!!!
13.07.2024, Hinton
My parents were going through a difficult time and my brother and I were sent to Marie Jose summer program Coming from an American day school in NY it was a culture shock. The disiplane, particularly in the morning after breakfast was weird. Still, I look back on it fondly. My French improved and I learned to love the combination of bread with chocolate