Site Meter

From the category archives:

Switzerland

Back to school

August 18, 2010

My son loves everything about his school.
My first grade daughter doesn’t even want to eat lunch before she does her homework.
My second grader is acting out and being mostly unbearable since school started. Every year, we go through this. In a week, she will be less nervous about starting a new grade and [...]

Read the full article →

Creux du Van walking trail near Ferme Robert

July 25, 2010

We took off one day to Creux du Van located in the Jura mountains (Canton of Neuchâtel in the Val-de-Travers). We left the car in the parking lot at the Ferme Robert and started walking on a trail that went up on a slight incline. It was slight but after about ten minutes [...]

Read the full article →

The rest of my Sion photos

July 18, 2010

Château de Valère (Valère castle), also known as Notre-Dame-de-Valère, is a fortified church in Sion that offers fabulous views of the city and Château de Tourbillon (Tourbillon castle). It, also, holds the oldest working organ in the world dating back to the 14th century.

Château de Tourbillon (Tourbillon castle) sitting on the hill in the [...]

Read the full article →

Sion, Switzerland in photos

July 15, 2010

We took a day trip to Sion. Even if we ended up getting soaked in the rain, it was so worth it.
Beautiful city with very friendly people.
**********
I have more photos of the city than I can’t fit into one post. So, I hope to get the rest up tomorrow.
Today is my laundry day. [...]

Read the full article →

No rain day

June 4, 2010

We had a big blue sky and warm sun.
It is about time!
To celebrate we took a walk.

Make a wish.

See! BIG. BLUE. SKY.

The meadows are filling up with Swiss wild flowers. I love this time of year here.

A horse’s nose. He was so friendly I couldn’t get a good [...]

Read the full article →