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The brand new Bauhaus Museum Dessau (in 2019)
Since it was not possible to do much traveling in 2020, we do not have many photos left to share from last year. Going back …, 2019 was the centenary year of the founding of the Bauhaus school in Germany. We took a pilgrimage tour of the three German cities where the Bauhaus school existed:…
Views from above St. Moritz
St. Moritz lies on the southern slopes of the Albula Alps, a mountain range in eastern Switzerland, overlooking the flat and wide glaciated valley of Engadine and Lake St. Moritz. Because we were visiting just after the peak tourist season, the hotel gave us free unlimited passes for use on the cable cars and funicular…
Muottas Muragl looking over St. Moritz
Muottas Muragl is a location on the southern slopes of Blais da Muottas (2,568 m) and offers at 8,051 feet (2,454 m) the most beautiful vantage point above the lakes of Upper Engadine valley. Muottas Muragl is situated between the villages of Samedan and Pontresina, accessible by a funicular railway built in 1907 that takes…
Sankt Moritz, Graubünden
St. Moritz is the destination of our long-weekend road trip to the Eastern side of Switzerland. We spent 4 posts describing our journey over five mountain passes to get here, see part 1, part 2, part 3, and part 4. For this post, let’s hear a 2012 Swing Out Sister instrumental: St. Moritz (German: Sankt…
