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Day 2
... still doesn't have his luggage. Trip will be good now. It is 28 degrees outside but supposed to be in upper 40's rest of the week. Heading to breakfast and Christmas market. I may never come back. Between the chocolate, the gingerbread and the Ghulwein it will be hard. When you buy Ghulwein, which is a hot spiced wine, ...
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
... bonding session that did not need any translation, drawing doodles in the snow is apparently a universal conversation starter.
It was challenging work hiking in the snow up this Mountain with the altitude difference and the lack of recent regular exercise did not help, it was a lot of fun though and we all thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. A fairly common sight to see were young children walking up the track with their parents only ...
Switzerland - Day 13
Today was a day we made up for our lost childhood in a Winter Wonderland. We started off pretty late, sleeping in, having a cuppa and skyping the parentals before we got down to the first job of the day...building our first snow man. It was a perfect day, due to yesterdays massive snow fall the whole place was covered in fluffy white goodness which is sublime snow man making material. Petra's dad had the driveway cleared of all snow and dumped in our snow man making ...
Switzerland - Day 12
... snow gloves and a proper winter jacket for Tommy. Once set we headed off to look around Lucerne, one of the sights we saw was the worlds longest wooden bridge Kapellbrucke (Chapel Bridge) and walked along it. This bridge was built in 1333 and has more than 100 early 17th century paintings in its roof recording the history of the city, there was however a fire in 1993 destroying a some of the pictures.
We had another (roll of the ...
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