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Tag Archives: Lake Constance
New book on the way! #amwriting #travel And it’s set by a lake in Switzerland…
Several years ago now, I self-published the Lakeside Hotel series, five feel-good novellas about Stacy from Cheshire and Rico from N.E. Switzerland. It was fun, and a restful contrast to my rather gloomier psychological suspense fiction, but I always felt … Continue reading
1989, or: the Trabi in the supermarket car park… #memories #Berlin
My Christmas read this time was Val McDermid’s 1989, a great book and a year I remember very well. In 1989 we were living in the same town in N.E. Switzerland, a little further from Lake Constance than we are … Continue reading
Posted in Life in Switzerland, travel
Tagged 1989, Berlin, history, Lake Constance, memories, The Berlin Wall
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Sunshine in Switzerland… #SilentSunday #travel
Water… a weekend walk to the lake. It makes such a difference where the sun is – the two last photos were taken less than a minute apart, but looking in different directions.
Summer in Switzerland, and the fire next door… #SilentSunday(almost) #travel
A few photos of two of the trips I took this summer. (More to follow later in the month.) Over the lake to Friedrichshafen in Germany. Click on the pics to see the uncropped version: A walk around the Gubsensee … Continue reading
Posted in Life in Switzerland, travel
Tagged Germany, Lake Constance, Switzerland, travel
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#SilentSunday in #Switzerland…
Some pics from the past week or so:
Take a walk in Switzerland… #SilentSunday
Here are a few pics from last week’s walks here on the banks of Lake Constance, in N.E. Switzerland. Next week, it’s Alison Morgan with her choice of Classic Comfort reads – see you then!
(Almost) Silent Sunday – A Lake in Switzerland…
I’m lucky to live on the banks of Lake Constance, the second largest lake in Switzerland.(Photos from Pixabay.) Blue lake… I used to have nightmares about this kind of thing when my boys were at the teenage-pedalo stage… Sunset on … Continue reading
Future plans and a #NewBook
It’s the holiday weekend in Switzerland, and we have a couple of bookish things to celebrate here in my flat. The first is something I’ve been sitting on for a few weeks – then on Friday afternoon an interesting envelope … Continue reading
Posted in books, Life in Switzerland, My books, The Writing Life
Tagged Hobeck Books, Lake Constance, novellas
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Springtime in Switzerland… #SilentSunday
We’ve had everything from snow to hot sunshine over the past few weeks. Here’s a selection of photos taken round about where I live, by lovely Lake Constance. Next week, we’re having the third last A-Z post – watch out … Continue reading
Posted in Life in Switzerland, travel
Tagged Lake Constance, photos, spring, Switzerland
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Snow…
On Thursday night, it started to snow. And it snowed and snowed and snowed, and by the time we got to Friday morning, it was, well, pretty snowy. We don’t often get this much ‘down’ here in N.E. Switzerland, so … Continue reading