Switzerland
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Great Drive Series – A Switzerland Sampler
More Details: Great Drive Series – A Switzerland SamplerWhen I worked in Paris many moons ago for 6 months, one of the neat weekend trips I took was a rather rushed visit to Switzerland. More than anything, we just wanted to leave France. Having visited Heidelberg and worked in The Netherlands during that period, we opted to go south: Switzerland (or Schweiz or…
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A Quick Switzerland Sampler Trip
More Details: A Quick Switzerland Sampler TripBack in the times when I lived in Paris, a fellow expat and I decided it would be a great idea to leave Paris a Friday afternoon and head down to Switzerland by car for the weekend. It was actually crazy and last minute but most definitely worthwhile, even if rushed. We realized we would…
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Switzerland: Lausanne and the Lavaux wine region
More Details: Switzerland: Lausanne and the Lavaux wine regionGuest post by friend and fellow traveler, Chris Sanders. After a few tortuous days on the Tour de Mont Blanc (see my related post), my wife and I were looking for a place in which to relax and recover…and we wanted to stay in the region…it didn’t take me long to decide on the perfect…
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A short happy life on the Tour de Mont Blanc (TMB)
More Details: A short happy life on the Tour de Mont Blanc (TMB)A guest post by Chris Sanders. Ok, I confess – this post has almost nothing in common with Hemingway‘s short story about Francis Macomber… and that’s probably a good thing! But I thought a “short happy life” was the best way to describe a recent adventure that ended all too soon… Last August, my wife Wendy and I…