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
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
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
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 Continue Reading
