Month: June 2016
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Switzerland – Lucerne (and a few more watery pics…)
Last week, I spent a lovely day in Central Switzerland, first of all with friends in the city of Lucerne, and then with my boys in Zurich. After all the rain we’ve had recently, it was unbelievably soothing to have hot sunshine from dawn until dusk. It was even too hot at times. (That was…
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In memory of summers past…
Remember back in the day, when the long school holidays started, and weeks and weeks of sunshine stretched in front of us, and we had nothing to do but play – and read? Remember building caterpiller zoos in jam jars, and catching bees (to the horror of our mothers…) and letting them go again? And…
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Water, water everywhere…
– but what can you expect, after the rainfall of the past several weeks? And it’s still raining… There’s nothing titchy about our lake. At 64km long and 12km wide, Lake Constance is one of the largest in Central Europe, covering an area of 536 square metres. And in the past few weeks it’s been…
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Lost: the weather. A Very British Blog Post…
Here in Switzerland, it’s a well-known fact that British people like talking about the weather – and let’s face it; the weather gives us something different to say several times a day. But this year, it’s conversation topic number one here in middle Europe too. Swiss winters are snowy, crisp and cold and full of…
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