Category: lodgings
NH Collection Hotels in Turin, Italy
For our stay in Turin (Torino), we took rooms in two hotels consecutively. This was unusual for us as we normally do not want to incur time overheads when travelling. Changing hotel is usually a chore that eats up leisure time. Both hotels happen to be in the NH Collection group. We want to clarify…
Lingotto FIAT Car Factory, Turin
On this trip from Lausanne to Tuscany, we stayed in the city of Turin (Torino) in two hotels which was not our usual practice. The reason for changing was because the second hotel is housed in the iconic, historic Lingotto FIAT car factory. Built in the 1920s by FIAT, Lingotto was then the largest and most…
Travel in Post-pandemic Switzerland, Spiez
While the number of COVID infections ebbed and flowed throughout 2021, we did not take a vacation or travel anywhere during the first half of the year. Luckily, we received our first dose of Moderna vaccine in March and then a second dose in June. Like many people in Europe, we started travelling again with…
Sunrise on Mount Pilatus, part 1
On our way back home after a visit to St. Moritz, we used the motorway instead of the mountainous route we previously took. To see photos of the mountain passes we visited on that route, click here. _ We passed Chur, stopped at Lucerne for lunch and then sneaked up to Mount Pilatus for the…