Remember I mentioned how incredibly green the grass is around Appenzell from my Hiking High Above Appenzell post? It’s not just a vibrant shade of green, it’s remarkably soft and springy too. So much so that there is a 5 kilometer hiking path actually meant to be enjoyed barefoot! That’s right – barefoot hiking! This […]
Hiking to Aescher Mountain Hut
Perched on the ledge of a 100 meter high narrow cliff and built right in to the rock of the mountain, Äescher mountain hut was just one of those places we wanted to see. Only open in the summer season from May – October, it can be reached relatively easily on the 6-minute journey on […]
A Photo Tour of Appenzell’s Tafeen
We found these distinctive signs (known as Tafeen) hanging outside of the shops, restaurants, and inns in Appenzell to be charming! We loved looking at the detail of each one. Tafeen comes from the word for tavern and the most elaborate Tafeen are found along Heiligkreuzkapelle, the main street of the village. Here are some […]
The Fairy Tale Village of Appenzell, Switzerland
We contemplated a trip to Zermatt to see Switzerland’s most famous mountain, but instead opted for the rural region of Appenzell, high up in the Alps of eastern Switzerland. We had read before arriving that a visit to Appenzell is like turning back time and that it was! Appenzell is Switzerland’s most traditional region; all […]
Strolling Through Hemingway’s Stresa
In 1918, a then 19-year old Ernest Hemingway was volunteering with the Red Cross in Italy. After being injured and hospitalized in Milan, he visited Stresa on Lago Maggiore. Hemingway stayed in room 106 of the Hotel des Iles Borromees, where he was known to drink martinis while overlooking the beautiful islands beyond. It was […]
The Borromean Islands: Where Nature and Art Meet
The Borromean islands are the jewels of Lago Maggiore and the perfect way to spend a day relaxing and strolling amongst their famed sights, which the Princess of Wales herself, Caroline of Brunswick, fell in love with. It is said Caroline did her best to convince the Borromeo family to sell her Isola Madre; her […]
Giro d’ombra: Venice Carnival Pub Crawl
The Carnival of Venice is known for the elaborate costumes and the even more lavish masquerade balls. Those balls can cost hundreds of dollars per person to attend, and honestly just weren’t ever any interest to us. We much preferred to enjoy the free Carnevale events during the day, and to wrap up one of […]
The Frozen Waterfalls of Serrai di Sottoguda
Unimaginable walls of blue ice surrounded us as we walked down the narrow, long gorge of Serrai di Sottoguda, at the base of Marmolada mountain. Only reached on foot, the gorge was created long ago by an earthquake and then water erosion from the Pettorina stream, which still flows through it. In winter, the waterfalls […]
Little Venice: Chioggia
There are 117 islands in the Venice Lagoon. Only about 32 are inhabited and we’d only been to five. So when Tim asked what I wanted to do this weekend, I thought we’d stay a little closer to home and visit the island of Chioggia in the Venetian Lagoon. Chioggia is often called Little Venice […]
Ice Art: Italy’s International Snow Sculpture Festival
Each January, artists from around the world gather with their shovels, ladders, buckets and axes to sculpt unique forms from snow. The competition lasts three days in which teams of artists from Italy, Germany, Romania and Canada work to transform their gigantic cubes of pressed snow and ice into masterpieces. On the third day, judges […]
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