During our stay on Lake Geneva, we decided to spend a few days in Ticino, the Italian part of Switzerland. We drove through Bern, Lucerne...

We spent the last week of January in Vail. We flew to Denver where we rented a car. It only took a couple of hours to reach our...

From Florence we took the autostrada on our way to Venice. We stopped in Ferrara, a city in Emilia-Romagna. The town has numerous palaces...

On our way from Assisi to Florence, we first visited Perugia, a city that goes back to the Etruscan period. The sites of interest include...

It was a five-hour drive from Positano to Assisi, except for our stop at the Royal Palace of Caserta. The town of Assisi is on a hill. We...

We drove in our rental car from Matera to Positano. It is normally a 4-hour drive, but it took us much longer as the coastal road from...

We picked up our rental car at the Bari airport. Bari is the main city of the Apulia region on the Adriatic Sea. Sixt rental car gave us...

We drove in our rental car from Kotor, Montenegro, to Dubrovnik. It only took a couple of hours. It’s a very nice drive. We had planned...

Montenegro and the charming medieval city of Kotor It took less than an hour to fly from Belgrade (Serbia) to Tivat (Montenegro). Tivat...

We flew from Tampa with stopovers in Washington and Frankfurt. We arrived at the Belgrade’s airport in early afternoon. We picked up our...

We flew from Tampa with a stopover in Dallas. It only took a few hours until we landed in Rapid City. We picked up our rental car at the...

After many years we finally organized a ski trip to Colorado. Being Swiss, I started skiing when I was three. We used to spend every...

We visited some wonderful Christmas markets for a few days. Our first stop was in Basel, Switzerland. The city is near France and Germany....

Our 7-day Greek Isles cruise on the Norwegian Star was leaving from Venice. We took a train from Switzerland to the Venice train station...

Here are a few places we visited during our last stay on Lake Geneva. Château de Chillon (on Lake Geneva near Montreux) Chillon Castle is...

The Fête des Vignerons (Winegrowers’ Festival) is a traditional festival which takes place in Vevey four or five times per century. It...

This blog follows the previous blog related to our trip in Jordan. We crossed from Jordan to Israel at the King Hussein Bridge on a...

We organized a two week trip to Jordan, Israel and Palestine. It took quite a while to figure out the best way to visit these countries....

We flew to Washington at the beginning of April for a 4-day week-end. For many years we had tried to come to see the cherry blossoms. It...

We took a seven-day cruise out of Tampa on the Holland America Rotterdam to celebrate Thanksgiving. We sailed from Tampa on Sunday at...