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Random Moment #13 – The Captain of Her Heart
Random Moment is a playlist series which we started posting during the COVID pandemic in 2020. Each playlist comprises typically 4 songs totaling at around 10-20 minutes of listening time. We believe this format can minimally sustain a musical mood and provides a short break from chores. For example, it can accompany you on a

Sigriswil Panorama Bridge, Switzerland
As we drove around Thurnersee on Seestrasse (see earlier posts here and here), at Gunten, we turned uphill and climbed to Sigriswil which is located at 810 m (2660 feet). We came to see the Sigriswil panoramic bridge (Panoramabrücke Sigriswil) that traverses the 182 m deep Gummischlucht gorge through which the stream Guntenbach runs into

Iseltwald, a K-drama filming location in Switzerland
Continuing with our drive to explore the two lakes – Lake Thun (Thurnersee in German) and Lake Brienz (Brienzersee) … Of the two lakes, Brienzersee is slightly smaller and the shores are more heavily wooded and much less developed than Thunersee. And there isn’t a big town like Thun at the far end of Brienzersee.

Driving around Lake Thun in Switzerland
First time visitors to the Bernese Oberland region in central Switzerland are naturally drawn to the mountains. Instead of going up the famous Bernese mountains (Jungfrau, Monch and Eiger), we took our time to drive along the shores of both lakes, Lake Thun (Thunersee) and Lake Brienz (Brienzersee). Lake is a major natural feature of






































