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The Longest Day – Yverdon
The Plan: bike 90+km to Yverdon-les-Bains, overnight at a hotel, bike home along the north side of Lake Neuchatel. The actual trip: bike 96km over too many hills in too hot weather with too little sunscreen, try to lift legs … Continue reading
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A Quiet Swiss Weekend
Itinerary: Saturday: bike ride through peaceful farmland to Thun and back Sunday: hike an Alpine meadow with friends Sounds like a quiet weekend, getting in touch with nature? It certainly started that way. The route we planned to Thun was … Continue reading
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86’d Burgdorf
Weather was iffy: Saturday looked probably good, but Sunday was given a high chance of rain. That and high hotel rates led us to make our ride yesterday round-trip. We knew that if at any point it was too difficult, … Continue reading
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Ooh Paris, Aah France
The friends who visited with us in Switzerland then went on to La Raincy, a suburb of Paris, where they had a house exchange. We followed on Friday the 27th and stayed through 8/1, which is Swiss National Day and … Continue reading
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Switzerland in 10 Days
Our guests left this morning after a very full 10 days of Swiss touring: they walked Bern, rode the Golden Pass Train, toured Chillon and Lausanne, visited Murten and Avenches, hiked to Kleine Scheidegg, snow-tubed on the Jungfrau, hiked in … Continue reading
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Guests and Plans
This week we’re preparing for guests. We borrowed an air mattress. Which then necessitated borrowing a transformer to pump it. We’ve sent emails back and forth about what to bring us (Jon’s choral clothes) and what they want to do … Continue reading
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Soccer
It has been a soccer summer with the European games going on. For weeks it was everywhere. You pass a bar and hear a game. In the restaurant in Konstanz (an otherwise elegant place), the game was showing on a … Continue reading
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Das Weindorf
Our 2nd weekend being driven into Germany by our friends Simon and Michaela, this time to stay with their parents and go to the local ‘Weindorf’ or ‘wine village’. This is somewhat different from an American style wine event. We … Continue reading
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Weekdays
Perhaps you have read our earlier blog entries: our wonderful weekend adventures. Our weekdays, however, are not so exceptional. Jon is working as he would back home, with all the challenges and frustrations that has always entailed. I (Mary Carol) am living … Continue reading
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Fear of Footpaths
Today’s success? I got lost. Now, I know you’d think the success part would be I found my way back to my computer and can write in the blog again. But to get lost, you have to dare to go … Continue reading
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