an expat family exploring Europe…and beyond!
We have been wanting to go to Zermatt since we first moved here, but every time I looked last summer the weather wasn’t great. We decided to finally bite the bullet (come rain or shine…or something in between 😉 ) and spend the weekend of Swiss National Day in the most iconic of Swiss places. Since […]
While my mother-in-law was still here, she kindly offered to watch the kids again so that we could have one more quick getaway. We hadn’t been in the Alps really since winter skiing except for one Saturday of hiking, so we decided to hit the trails! I had heard good things about the Swiss hotel, […]
We spent our last night of the school break in the town of Leukerbad which is about 50 minutes from Riederalp and is a popular spa town known for its two thermal baths heated with warm, geothermal water. I’ve also had this place on my radar for a while and since it was on our […]
I’ve been having a hard time trying to figure out how to describe the indescribable in this post about our ski week getaway to the Aletsch Arena. I will just say that if you have the chance you should absolutely go here and experience it, but I will try to put in words how magical […]
My mom is near the end of her visit with us, so the weekend before last we all headed to Lucern to show her something new. I’ve heard great things about Lucern and wanted to visit in the summer, but the huge benefit of visiting in the winter is that most hotels offer a […]
A few weeks ago we spent a long weekend in the Italian side of Switzerland. We’ve been wanting to visit the canton of Ticino for a while, but with snow forecast in the Geneva area and a forecast of sun and high 50’s in Lugano, the time seemed right. In fact in Locarno, a neighboring […]
