We drove to their health club a few miles away, passing various scenes of devastation and menacing trees and wires that dangled over the road just above carheight.
Perched at the first midstation on the Punta Helbronner cable car at a heady height of 2, 173 metres, Rifugio Pavillon is a traditional mountain refuge with a deckchairlined terrace.
Cash back sure beats throwing in a car, a boat or a cruise, some of the desperate ploys used during the height of the real estate bust by real estate developers and individual homeowners alike.