Hotel Schwarzwaldhof
Travel Blogs from Menzenschwand
Day 2
... in a mug which you get to keep to remember your trip. We ate dinner at a street vendor and I had bratwurst. Not a big deal but my brothers and sister will get a kick out of the fact that my mom ate anything from a street vendor. Next stop Germany- the Black Forest and Colmar. Colmar was one of sites of World War II ...
Arriving in Basel
We arrived earlier this afternoon in Basel. Flight delayed 30 minutes leaving Houston so had to run to catch plane in Frankfurt. Needless to say no pictures and for those of you that know my history, no luggage. Lufthansa is saying 50,000 bags are stranded in Frankfurt. Hopefully I will get it before we leave on cruise. Going exploring in a ...
Switzerland - Day 14
... aside with a call of 'watch out' as the children who had walked up were on their way down sledge style, oh and of course good ol Basel sprinting down the hill to chase his family. Luckily the clouds cleared away from one half of the Matterhorn so we were able to get a good view and photos.When we reached the bottom we had a nice little walk around the village and had a cup of tea and coffee, or cake in Petra's case in a little tea house in ...
A German/French/Swiss easter/birthday/anniversary
... end of the walk we found a cute little town and had some lunch in a bit of a fancy restaurant – again, a real perk as we weren’t really sure whether anything would be open.
Another highlight of the trip was visiting a schnapps factory. There was a man there who was keen to practice his English so spent lots of time trying to figure out what berry was in each schnapps and translating for us. Dan was driving so ...
Switzerland - Day 13
... where we schemed and vowed to get the girls back wow 23 and 24 year old we were super amazing.
However by the time we got to the top we were a bit tired and Petra had learned they were keeping the slope open until midnight...sweet! So we left to get ready for dinner at the local Hottwil restaurant.
This is a cute little restaurant called Baeren (Bear) in the centre of Hottwil where people travel all over to come to as it has amazing food, all locally ...
Location
