auf Wiedersehen
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Very sadly, more sadly than normal due to a crusher tackle that wasn't given a penalty 🐴😭, we leave beautiful Europe for home. We have been overwhelmed by cheese and friendship by the countriesRead more
Very sadly, more sadly than normal due to a crusher tackle that wasn't given a penalty 🐴😭, we leave beautiful Europe for home. We have been overwhelmed by cheese and friendship by the countriesRead more
We are staying in a lovely huge apartment in Bern with 5 generous flatmates but it does not seem cramped.
Away in the big black van for more adventures we went and drove to the border with France toRead more
Beautiful flowers I will name when time.
After a bit of a late night playing prince and pauper with our new addition, Rach's Swiss exchange schoolmate, 'Swiss' we left in a sleek big black SCOTT work van to scale the heights of the alps andRead more
Lovely Saint-Saphorin nestles between the lake and the vineyards. It boasts charming alleys and a Gothic church, which was built around 1530.
The history of Saint-Saphorin goes back to Roman times.Read more
We were late leaving our medieval palace as busy stuffing our faces with delicious pastries. OMG!!! Still warm from the oven 🤪
First big mistakes made by me. Eric did a marvellous job negotiatingRead more
Sun-screened, shod and hatted our two pilgrims (minus colosseum-blistered Rhonda) set off earlyish as the church bells pealed 11am on the Via Francgenzio. The plan was to follow in the hire car andRead more
Oscar Wilde - Ravenna
"Where flower and fruit to purple radiance blow,
And like bright lamps the fabled apples glow.
Full Spring it was—and by rich flowering vines,
Dark olive-groves and nobleRead more
Kind of expecting to see half of Italy as a quarry such is the extent of stone monstrosities.
Very thankful to Rick Steeve for his free podcasts allowing us to do our own free tour ofRead more