an expat family exploring Europe…and beyond!
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 seeing it in the winter […]
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 the coolest (pun intended) things […]
Happy November! Fall is just flying right by, which makes me a little sad because it’s probably my favorite season in the mountains. The colors are just so unbelievably beautiful, the summer visitors have left, and the mountain trails are peaceful and inviting. To make the most of our favorite season, we spent most of […]
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 up for vertically! Luckily, with […]
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 my bovine obsession, I still […]
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! We stayed at the the […]
