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Vitra Campus, Weil am Rhein
Last year, IT and I went to visit the Vitra Campus – located just across the Swiss-German border in Weil am Rhein. Much of what is written below came from their web site which is very informative. They also have a great drone video of the campus here. The Vitra Campus comprises a public and a…

Our trips 2016, part 2
Dear Readers, Happy New Year ! This is our second post of 2017. It is almost a tradition of this blog – the first two posts take a look back at some of the places we visited last year. I(Chris) had the good fortune of having visited the capitals of 6 countries – Japan, Italy, Russia, Korea, Spain…

Our trips 2016, part 1
Dear Readers, Happy New Year ! This is our first post of 2017. It is almost a tradition of this blog – the first two posts take a look back at some of the places we visited last year. Click on links, where provided to read more about the places of interest. There are usually…

Verbier food diary: La Marmotte
We spent a weekend in Verbier during the summer this year and luckily it coincided with the annual Alps en Fête where we saw the Bataille des Reines, see the post here. The event was held at the Alpage des Grand-Plans, Les Planards, an alpine pasture above Verbier that was reached by public bus and a…






































