Category: travel
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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…
