We spent the Easter holiday weekend in Val Müstair, a valley in the far eastern part of Switzerland close to the Italian and Austrian border. We started out early on Good Friday as the weather forecast had predicted that Friday could possibly be the warmest and sunniest day of the holiday weekend. As soon as […]
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La Gomera
Our second week on the Canary Islands was spent on the second smallest island of La Gomera. Just as when we arrived in El Hierro several days earlier, it was dark when the ferry docked in San Sebastiàn. We drove along winding roads and through thick fog until we reached where we were staying on […]
El Hierro
This year we decided to head to the Canary Islands again to soak up the sun and go hiking. Our first stop was the smallest and youngest in the archipelago, El Hierro. Three years ago we visited La Palma, the greenest island of the Canaries. This time we wanted to visit two other islands, El […]
Snowshoeing in Toggenburg
It took a while for winter to arrive but when it did, it really did! We packed up our snowshoes and decided to head out to the mountains. Our base was Alt St. Johann from where we took the gondola to Sellamatt. There, we strapped on our snowshoes and started along the snowshoe trail. This […]
England in November
Although the main reason for going to England was to visit a conference in Exeter, we decided it would be nice to spend some time in and around London to visit friends. We took the first flight out and arrived at London City Airport at 7:30 am. The airport has a single runway surrounded by […]
Swiss Historic Hotels 2016
The two Swiss Historic Hotels we visited this year couldn’t be more different. One is nestled far up in the mountains, the other above a lake. We visited Hof Zuort at the end of winter in the beginning of March in the hopes of being able to spend some time in the snow. The only […]