Tag: travel

  • Coming soon in feel-good fiction… #travel #Switzerland

    A holiday in Switzerland… that was something I’d never experienced when I arrived at Basle Airport on a cold January afternoon in the 1980s. That day, I was all set to work for a year, see something of Europe, learn a new language – and then go home to Scotland. My year turned into decades,…

  • #SilentSunday #sledges

    I was at the Swiss National Museum last week, and found these… See you next week!

  • Fountains… #travel #water

    For the past few weeks, I’ve been taking photos of fountains in our local area here in N.E. Switzerland, some in our little town, others in St Gallen, our nearest city. There’s quite a variety… First up – our town’s version of the Jet d’Eau in Geneva. A little closer to the harbour is the…

  • 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 reservoir in canton St Gallen: For dramatic effects, though, we didn’t have to look further…

  • #SilentSunday in #Switzerland #travel

    Summer streets in St Gallen… Next week, we have crime writer Clare Chase and her choice of classic comfort books – see you then!

  • #SilentSunday in #Switzerland…

    Some pics from the past week or so:

  • (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 the Alpstein range. Next week, it’s the ‘Y’ books!

  • #Travel in Switzerland…

    Holidays abroad are going to be very hit or miss this year. Personally, I’m not planning on going anywhere too far from home. This could include going to another country – I can see two others from my flat as I type (though Germany will soon be disappearing behind the woods as the trees green…

  • A visit to Tuscany…

    Writer Helen Pryke and I ‘met’ on social media quite recently, and I was interested to see she lives in the north of Italy – not a million miles from N.E. Switzerland. For obvious reasons, we didn’t manage a visit this summer, but one day… Here she is to tell us about her (wonderful; I’ve…