linda huber

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  • Christmas without Santa? #books

    It’s been a busy few weeks here in N.E. Switzerland – not long now until the new book comes out! It’s the start of the Christmas celebrations at the Lakeside Hotel, and Stacy and Rico are gearing up for the season of peace and goodwill. But – is Christmas really Christmas without Santa? Because Santa…

  • Lions… #Switzerland #travel (almost) #SilentSunday

    I spent a day in Winterthur recently – it’s Switzerland’s sixth largest city and is around twenty minutes east of Zürich by train. I’ve been there many times, but this time, they had lions. 120-odd local businesses were given lions to decorate, and these were set up in the town centre. Here are a few…

  • Book news – and other things… #travel #books

    I didn’t keep the date of the day when I first saw my (pen) name in print. I couldn’t even tell you the year, now, but it was in the 1990s and it was a short story in The People’s Friend, the first of 50-60 stories and articles I wrote for them and a couple…

  • Cover Love – with Julia Gibbs… #books #amreading

    I read once that the main purpose of a book cover is to attract the reader’s attention. Obviously, it should have something to do with the subject of the book too – you wouldn’t put an image of a vegetable garden on a book called How to Crochet, but the cover needn’t tell the story…

  • The Summer of ’23… #writing #travel #books

    It’s been a mixed one here – we’ve had everything from searing heat to days on end of wall-to-wall rain. We’re back in a searing heat phase now, with no rain in sight until the end of the coming week. Lake Constance is over half a metre lower than average for the time of year,…

  • The start of summer ’23

    It’s been a long time coming, but at long last we’ve had some lovely summery weather here in N.E. Switzerland, and I’ve been out and about. Last week started with a trip to Zürich Zoo, something I haven’t done for at least a decade. It’s a good zoo, with huge enclosures for the animals, but…

  • Cover Love – with Amanda James… #books #amreading

    I read once that the main purpose of a book cover is to attract the reader’s attention. Obviously, it should have something to do with the subject of the book too – you wouldn’t put an image of a vegetable garden on a book called How to Crochet, but the cover needn’t tell the story…

  • Sculptures in Switzerland #SilentSunday #travel

    A visit to the industrial area of our small lakeside town… Next week, we have another Cover Love post, this time with writer Amanda James – see you then!

  • The year the lake spilled over… #travel #books

    In Problems at the Lakeside Hotel, one of the main challenges hotel owners Rico and Stacy have to face is a rising – then overflowing – Lake Constance. Having to issue guests with wellies to get to the restaurant for dinner each night must be in the top ten of every hotel manager’s worst nightmares……

  • Out now: Problems at the Lakeside Hotel #books #newrelease

    Book three in the Escape to Switzerland series is out – tap HERE to see the entire series in your local Amazon Store! To celebrate, Problems… is just 99p etc worldwide this week, and the other two are 99p/c in the UK and US too. It’s not all going smoothly at the Lakeside Hotel… When…