Category Switzerland
Lake Como to the Bernina Pass.
After a leisurely trip from Florence to Milan the pace of life has quickened such as we have not had time to blog over the last few days. A brief summary of the last few days can be found in that old John Denver song. “Some days are diamonds and some days are stone”. Our […]
Making It On Our Own (Almost)
Sadly, it was time to leave Morschach behind – no more clifftop views over the turquoise lake. We were headed back to Zurich, but before then we had an important appointment to keep. Victorinox, makers of Swiss Army knives, has an outlet store in Brunnen, and even better, they allow you to Make Your Own […]
A Meander Around Morschach
This morning we opened the blinds. The mountains had gone. The rain had arrived. We closed the blinds, looked at the radar, and declared it a rest day. Washing, emails, tidying, lazing around watching the rain, and the mountains come and go as the clouds drifted in and out. Most of the activities here are […]
The Hills Are Alive, With The Sound Of Cow Bells (Ah-Ah-Ah-Ah…)
Despite dire forecasts, the morning was dry with light cloud, and we deemed it suitable for taking the nearest cable car up to Stoos, a car-free ski resort in winter, and mountain holiday village in summer. We thought it might take an hour or two – we had no idea how much there was to […]
Aargauer 3 Day Orienteering, Final Day
Sadly we had to leave Tiny House behind, and do our last trip across to Riniken. It was already a warm morning at 9am, with the promise of 30 degrees plus. I was glad it was the Sprint day and not the Long or Middle. It was all abuzz with kids everywhere; one of the […]
Aargauer 3 Day Orienteering, Day 1
Today was our first orienteering event of the trip, but with starts in the early evening, we didn’t have to go anywhere until 4pm. So we declared it a catchup day – slept in, then whiled away the time sitting in the sun, doing a few emails, and generally not much of anything, until it […]
The Amazing Race
We have several big travel days planned, and this was one of them. We needed to depart from Bad Ischl at 8am, drop off the rental car in downtown Salzburg by 9.30, and stroll across to the railway station, where we would board a Railjet train to Zurich – a 5 hour journey across the […]
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