Category Archives: Independent Summer

Montreux Jazz Festival 2009

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Held on the eastern shore of beautiful Lake Geneva, the Montreux Jazz Festival attracts around 200,000 people each year. Specialising in jazz, blues, rock and pop, the festival provides groove busting beats that make you want to move your body or just listen in musical awe. The Montreux Jazz Festival has hosted the likes of Stan Getz, Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgerald, Charlie Mingus and Dexter Gordon since its inception in 1967 and this year’s festival will see the likes of rock legend Lenny Kravitz and R’nB queen Alicia Keys. Head to the fringe ‘Off Festival’ for free open-air concerts, providing a platform for up-and-coming artists.

Deep Purple made Montreux famous with their song “Smoke on the Water”, which tells the events of 1971, when a Frank Zappa fan with a flare gun set the Montreux Casino on fire.

“ We all came out to Montreux on the Lake Geneva shoreline / To make records with a mobile – We didn’t have -much time / Frank Zappa & the Mothers were at the best place around / But some stupid with a flare gun burned the -place to the ground / Smoke on the water, fire in the sky

Venue: Various. Montreux is 56 miles (90 km) from Geneva
Date: July 2009 TBA
Website: www.montreuxjazz.com

For a Summer alpine holiday after, why not go to Verbier – 1 hour away or Chatel 45min from Montreux and only 1h30min from Geneva!

For accommodation in Verbier click here

For accommodation in Chatel click here

Cheap Flights To The Alps

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Winter is well and trully over in Meribel and as the resort starts to gear
up for the summer season of biking, golfing, walking and much more, your
attention may be turning to next years ski holiday as lo-cost airlines
flight seats are released.

Jet2.com have seats from as little as £8.99 one way from Manchester,
Leeds, Newcastle, and new for this year Blackpool.

Looking to fly from the south? Snowjet.com released their seats over the
weekend, flying from Gatwick, Stansted and Bristol to Chambery from as
little as £24.99 one way.

Want to fly more loaclised from Doncaster, Coventry or Bournemouth plus
London? ThomsonFly.com have released their winter flights to Geneva and
Grenoble.

Flybe who have introduced a Newquay to Geneva flight will be releasing
their winter flights at the end of June, with Easyjet releasing flights at
the start of July.

Independent Summer – We’re ‘live’

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Having spent the last few weeks in Australia setting things up, we are now proud to open the doors to Independent Summer. We still have a fair bit of tweaking to do on the website, but the summer operation will be worked on for the next few months so that we can have a detailed list of properties on the east coast of Australia should you want a nice hot getaway over the cold winter months.

To see all that is going on with the new summer operation, please keep an eye on www.independentsummer.com and let us know your thoughts!! If you have any ideas on what we could improve, or resorts that you would like us to feature, then email me directly on james@independentsummer.com

Coming Soon – Independent Summer

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After a great couple of years building up a detailed list of properties and information on our mountain resorts, we are about to launch our summer operation – Independent Summer. We will be starting by offering beach properties on the east coast of Australia, and will then be looking at covering the south coast of France so that we will have a year round summer industry for you to choose from.

We’ll keep you posted with everything that goes on, and if you have any particular areas of the world that you would like us to start looking into, then just email me directly on james@independentmountain.com and i’ll be happy to look into what we can add onto the website.