Now many tutoring schools are employing new strategies. Parents are now being asked to put money into a savings account instead and the queues correspond to the paid-up fees. If visitors needed a reason to love Murren, it would be because this mountain village in the Bernese Oberland has no cars at all to choke them. Murren was chosen long ago by international celebrities as a prime spot for summer and winter holidays. While tourists shun many other resort towns and cities in winter, Murren is the liveliest.
People come here to ski.
In 1930, Switzerland s first ski school was founded in Murren. Ever since, everything about snow and skiing, ski facilities and ski lessons has flourished. Remember the undulation of that hip, the shimmying of those pelvic bones. For thousands of pimple-faced groupies, it was nothing short of a dream come true at the MTV Video Music Awards earlier this month at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. Their ectasy was so overwhelming that they couldn t suppress a hysterical scream as the Latin pop-star emerged from his limo.