Castles and Palaces

We stumbled across an article from a travel website naming the top 10 castles in the world. We’d only been to two on the list  – Neuschwanstein in Germany and Chateau de Chillon in Switzerland. But it got us thinking – what would our top-ten list be? And how many castles have we been to?
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Bugs in das haus!

We don’t have a central air system like in our house back home. Heat is provided by radiators, and we cool our home by leaving the windows open. Most of the time it isn’t bad at all, and we are high up enough in our building to get nice breezes.
What we don’t have are screens [...]

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Swiss Chocolate Review

I have a new favorite chocolate bar. I’m not normally one to eat milk chocolate – much prefer dark chocolate. But when the milk chocolate is absolutely packed to the gills with hazelnuts and raisins, that’s a different story. I’d show you pictures of how absolutely choc-full of goodies this bar is, but… erm… we [...]

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Rapperswil

Again, I’m still behind with posting update… In April, we took a day to visit Rapperwil, towards the southern end of Lake Zürich (Zürichsee). The train ride from Zürich to Rapperswil is really lovely, following the lake through most of the trip (there is an alternate train route that goes through the country-side).
We went a [...]

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Neftenbach Festival

Neftenbach was having a Renaissance Festival and celebrating their 800th year of being a town. They had lots of artisans there and a handful of patrons in costume as well. Having performed in the two largest Renaissance Festivals in Texas, we were curious. Our parents, who were visiting, enjoyed it as well.

One of the [...]

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Fasnacht Parade in Winterthur 2009

I know I’ve been really terrible in keeping up with this blog. You should see the list of drafts that I have lined up in my WordPress Dashboard! Anywho, as a follow up to the Opening Ceremonies of Fasnacht, there was also a parade a few days later, which is the highlight of the whole [...]

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Polenta

I’d never cooked, much less eaten polenta before. I know – total foodie who’d not yet dined on polenta? Who’da thunk? Polenta is pretty popular here, so I thought I’d try it. I bought a package of polenta that had dried mushrooms in it. It sat at the back of my pantry for months on [...]

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