Category: travel
Cowbell Music
When you think of Swiss cowbell, you would imagine a quite annoying, loud – dong, dong, dong sound. Apparently not so in the field. The closest I can think of is the sound made by a wind chime. It also evokes the musical sound of Indonesian Gamelan. They make a continuous tinkering sound, dissonant and…
Campione d’Italia
Before I forgot about this place we visited in Easter, I’d better post it. Campione d’Italia is a small village that is a part of Italy but is surrounded on all sides by Switzerland except the lake front. Someone told us that it is a duty free zone and it might explain the massive casino…
Jefferson Hotel, Richmond, Virginia
Since I am going to Washington DC next week, I might as well post the pictures of my last visit in the US. I was back for a couple of days in June on business, in Richmond, Virginia. We stayed at the Jefferson Hotel which has a lot of history. It was built originally as…
Cruising on the border: Le Doubs
Le Doubs is a small river that separates France from this corner of Switzerland. It is about 45 minutes from where we live. We crossed over the Jura mountains, went through La Chaux de Fonds and Le Locle, and pass through this gap in the mountain (Le Col des Roches) to reach Les Brenets. There…