Since January 2001, the Cambridge Blues squad has been returning to the site of the very first Varsity Match. Thanks to the help of alumni Curt Schmitt (1999-2003) the Blues are continuing a storied club tradition with a week-long hockey training session in the Engadine Valley in Switzerland. The team is hosted by the Lyceum Alpinum, one of the country's best known international boarding schools situated in Zuoz, a picturesque village located in the Swiss Alps near St. Moritz and the Italian border.

For seven days, the Blues are treated to what any hockey player would consider heaven: three excellent meals a day, training sessions in the morning and evening, and unlimited access to the Lycee's ice rink with the best maintained ice a UK national has ever seen. Naturally the nights are left open for the team to conduct thorough investigations of the local culture, while afternoons usually involve taking advantage of the mountainous terrain with activities such as skiing, snowboarding and perhaps most thrilling of all, sledging at speeds described best as 'suicidal'.

This trip-of-a-lifetime has been the key to Cambridge's success in recent years. Without an ice rink in Cambridge, the unlimited ice time in Zuoz makes up for this void. More importantly however, the Blues learn to function as a team. Whether it was hauling heavy hockey bags through a myriad of train changes (Swiss trains are never late), eating and rooming together, or pushing themselves to their utmost capacity in training, the players get to know each other not only as teammates but also as friends. Fittingly, the Swiss Tour is always remembered as the ultimate team bonding experience.