The last couple of days have been a whirlwind. We traveled from Germany to Lucerne, Switzerland yesterday. Lucerne has to be one of the most lovely places we have ever visited. Situated on Lake Lucerne and surrounded by the Swiss Alps, everywhere you look is…
It was hard for us to appreciate the beautiful city of Bern because it was so hot the day we visited. Air temperatures were climbing toward 100 degrees and the cobblestone streets were even hotter. Nevertheless, we pressed on, finding shade under the arched covered…
Even though it has been two months since the last Switzerland post, we still want to blog the entire trip. During the last eight weeks, we took time to learn a new video editing system, improve photo editing skills and learn how to use several…
July 7, 2015. With the last views of Lake Geneva behind us, we head back toward Vevey then north. The route to Gruyères takes us through a beautiful, broad, flat farming region with Alpine foothills rising on either side. Twenty five miles ahead is the…
With no activity for so long, you might have figured we gave up our multimedia posting effort. I thought this would be an easy one: gather the few pictures we had of Château de Chillon and have a slideshow up in a day or so, but…
Technology has thwarted us a bit lately, but we remain committed to the task of blogging our summer trip. The YouTube videos you have seen so far are courtesy of Microsoft Movie Maker, but I am in a remote location and my laptop does not…
HELVETIORUM FIDEI AC VIRTUTI (“TO THE LOYALTY AND BRAVERY OF THE SWISS”) Below is our video of a monument dedicated to the Swiss Guard mercenaries who died protecting the house of King Louis XIV of France during 1792 tenth of August insurrection. Six hundred men…
To the observation that everyone speaks English in Switzerland — maybe, but not our acronyms, like ATM for example. We heard that the ATMs in Swiss train stations exchanged at bank rates and housed most any service you needed, so we launched out to find the…
“Foreign toilets can be traumatic, but they are one of those little things that can make travel so much more interesting than staying at home.” – Rick Steves, Rick Steves’ Europe I would never say that I am fascinated with the wide variety of names…
“It has been said, by engineers themselves, that given enough money, they can accomplish virtually anything: send men to the moon, dig a tunnel under the English Channel. There’s no reason they couldn’t likewise devise ways to protect infrastructure from the worst hurricanes, earthquakes and…
