Spring has finally sprung around here (hooray!!), but just before it did we had a little girls’ getaway weekend to the mountains. Grindelwald, in the Bernese Oberland region of Switzerland, is a gorgeous year round destination. We love it in the summer, but I really had my heart set on Continue Reading
How would you like to have a fondue lunch in an igloo? I don’t think there is really a better place to eat a piping hot, cheesy fondue! And I have to say that after living in Switzerland for the last 3 1/2 years, this might just be one of Continue Reading
One thing I didn’t know before moving to Switzerland is that you could literally live here an entire lifetime and not run out of new things to explore and discover. This small country packs a lot into its diminutive borders, mostly because what it lacks in square mileage it makes Continue Reading
Last weekend we went to my favorite Swiss festival, the Desalpe, a celebration of the cows returning from 100 days of summer grazing high in the mountains. Mostly I love the “cow parade” as we call it because of my (maybe excessive) love of cows. Even if you don’t share Continue Reading
Christmas has long past, but we had a great weekend getaway to Zurich a couple of weeks before the holiday. We had been meaning to get to Zurich for a while now and since it sounded quite festive at Christmas, we figured it was high time we check it out! Continue Reading
This summer we finally tackled something we I have been wanting to do for a while now…a family camping trip! My husband loves to hike, but does not relish the idea of sleeping out in nature…however, he was a trooper and wound up having a great time. We went with Continue Reading
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 Continue Reading
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 Continue Reading
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 Continue Reading
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 Continue Reading
