Category: travel series
Looking back at our trips in 2021-2022, Part 1
Happy New Year ! It is a tradition on this blog in January to take a look back at some of the places we visited in the previous year. Since we took some time off from posting on this blog, we will review both 2021 and 2022 together. Let’s kick off with some tunes and
Our trips in 2020
Dear Readers, Happy 2021 ! What a nightmarish year we had. Glad that it is the beginning of a new year. Although the problems are not going away immediately, it is however symbolic that we are all moving on, to a better tomorrow. And we will … It is a tradition on this blog to
Five Alps mountain passes in two days, part 4
On our second day of this road trip to the Eastern side of Switzerland, we drove from Andermatt (after a detour to Airolo and St Gotthard pass) to St. Moritz. How about a bit of Bach for this stretch of the road trip ? We took Hauptstrassen 19 running alongside the river Vorderrhein (which feeds
Five Alps mountain passes in two days, part 3
For the first night of this short trip, we stayed in Andermatt (1437 m). It is a mountain village in the canton of Uri, and has been the historical center of north-south and east-west traverses of Switzerland. The village is connected by three Alpine passes: the Oberalp Pass (6,706 ft; 2,044 m.) to the east connecting the