This is the last of the Year Abroad stories – I’ve more or less reached the end of what I can remember well enough to write about. But I saved this one for the winter because it’s seasonally appropriate and it’s one of my favourite memories of my year learning French in western Switzerland. I… More Shrieking on the slopes at Chaumont
It’s that time of month again – another trip back in time to my year as a student in Switzerland in 2005/2006. Today we’re going down to the shores of Lake Geneva. I’d found some caves in my guidebook, semi-secret ones and I wanted to depart at the crack of dawn to find them. Unfortunately,… More Chateau de Chillon
July’s photoset is some of my favourite landscapes – so favourite that I’ve got them on rotation on my work computer. Think of me, by the way – as this is posted, I’m hopefully surviving my first ever Guide camp without an older, more experienced leader as ultimately responsible. I’ll tell you all about it… More Photoset: landscapes in black & white
Back at the end of March I went on a shoestring trip to Switzerland to celebrate a new job. I looked at flights from my local airport on Skyscanner to find the cheapest interesting flight they did, which turned out to be Geneva, and then I searched the comparison websites to find the cheapest accommodation… More Staying and travelling in Grindelwald
I went to Bern, very briefly, as a student during my year abroad. I remember virtually nothing except that it was a hot day. While staying in Grindelwald recently, it seemed like the ideal choice for a day out – less than an hour from Interlaken, one of the big cities and it fitted the… More In which I meet the Bears of Bern
I’m going back to work on Mondays from next Monday, having worked Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday since Christmas, so I celebrated my last long weekend with a quick trip away. Prices for flights and accommodation to/in Iceland remaining obstinately high despite me checking two or three times a day, I resorted to looking at various local-ish airports on… More Another look at Kleine Scheidegg
Back in August 2014, I went on an adults-only county Guide trip to Switzerland. A lot of international trips go to Switzerland because it’s where Our Chalet is, one of the four WAGGGS World Centres – more exciting than merely going to London but cheaper and easier than going to Mexico or India. We drove… More Switzerland 2014: Our Chalet
While I was living in Switzerland, I’d been wanting to go to Schaffhausen and visit the Rhinefalls for some time – I’d just been waiting for a good day for it and this day was apparently the one. I changed trains at Winterthur and according to my notes had half an hour there during which… More Year Abroad: Schaffhausen
When I was a student, I lived in Switzerland, studying French at a language school. There were three native English speakers in my class and we became triplets (or sometimes Les Trois Anglophones) and our first trip out together – or so I always thought – was a day in Zurich. If you’re going to… More Year Abroad: Zurich
In August 2014, I went on a county Guide trip to Switzerland. I’ve got some posts about it dotted around this blog in various places but I haven’t yet told you about Anita’s B&B. There were twelve of us and I was the penultimate youngest, at just turned 29. Kate (the organiser’s daughter) was 24,… More Switzerland 2014: Anita’s B&B