Category: travel
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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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The first of the summer visitors!
Last week I had the first visitors of the summer when some cousins came to N.E. Switzerland for a few days. It was their first time in the area, so I showed them all the best sights. Here are some snaps from our tours: First of all, I met them in Zürich, where you could…
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Zeppelins, Highland Cows, and 38 Reasons you should never visit Scotland…
Continuing with the Facebook Scenic picture challenge: Day Five and we’re in Friedreichshafen in Germany, which I can see across the lake from my flat in N.E. Switzerland. Friedreichshafen is the home of the Zeppelin. Day Six: Back on the Isle of Arran today, with two family photos taken by me (scenery) and Son 1…
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Scotland to Switzerland… via England. The Scenic/Landscape Photo Challenge.
Last week I was nominated – thank you Christa Polkinhorn – to take part in the Scenic Photo Challenge on Facebook, which involves posting a photo a day for seven days, and tagging another lucky soul to do the same each time. Not everyone’s on Facebook, so I thought I’d post my pics here too:…
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Switzerland… The Rhine Falls
It’s a murky autumn day here in N.E. Switzerland – the leaves are falling and we can see Lake Constance from the flat again. Ours is the second largest lake in the country, vaguely fish-shaped, with Germany along the northern bank, Switzerland to the south, and Austria in the east. The Rhine flows into the…
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Holidays…
We’re right at the end of the (summer) holiday season now, so here are some holiday jokes from my English-teaching joke collection. Just to remind us of those happy times earlier in the year… Sign in a British seaside hotel: ‘Welcome to sunny Brightsea. Please do not take wet umbrellas, raincoats and rubber boots into…
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Why Cornwall?
It’s something a lot of people have asked – why is The Cold Cold Sea set in Cornwall, when there’s such a lot of even colder sea back home in Scotland? The answer is easy. Think beach holidays in the UK. (Okay, most people wanting a beach holiday nowadays opt for sunnier, drier and warmer…
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Word Perfect… English as she is spelled…
‘You should give lessons,’ a friend said to me, years ago now. ‘After all, you can speak perfect English.’ I reckoned it was a good idea. Here in sunny Switzerland there are lots of people who want to learn English. So I did the appropriate courses and emerged a while later as an English Language…
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I don’t believe it!!!
It was a real Victor Meldrew moment. The first of two, actually. There I was in Switzerland a couple of months ago, rooted to the spot in our nearest big-town washing machine retailer, eyes popping and mouth hanging open… But let’s start at the beginning. Washing machines, as we all know, don’t last forever and…
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