Author: Jose

We traveled from cool alpine Chamonix Mont-Blanc to hot dry Provence. Our first impression was that it looked very much like Tuscany but a little more dry and a little less pretty. It’s been...

Chamonix is close to the Swiss and Italian borders and feels like a mix of Switzerland and France. The main draw here is the Mont-Blanc group of summits. We spent a few nights here...

Up to this point, we’ve been in the German feeling part of Switzerland. we are now in Lake Geneva near the French border, and there is a different look and feel to the country....

A few more pictures of some of the activities we did. We only scratched the surface of the activities available. It is still our favorite place and we definitely would like to return.

We weren’t loving Switzerland like we thought we would. That all changed this week when we arrived in the village of Wengen above the Lauterbrunnen valley. Tall ice covered mountains, alpine meadows, waterfalls, cute...

Our next stop was the capital city of Switzerland. Maybe less touristy but similar to Lucerne. Bern is a little quirky but very swiss. Switzerland seems like a country of rule followers. People will...

Lucerne was our first real stop in Switzerland after our one night stop in Appenzell. It is a tourist destination and a real swiss city at the same time. It was clean, efficient, and...

The smallest canton in Switzerland by population is Appenzell. This is a place that hangs on to traditions. Cows are taken to the high meadows and back through town roads on a regular basis,...

This post is about Liechtenstein and my obsession with visiting the micro-countries (you’re next Andorra). We just stopped by on the way to Switzerland for lunch. It really is an interesting place. It’s eight...

We might get tired of alpine beauty by the end of this part of our trip but the Dolomiti are a unique blend of green alpine meadows, quaint little villages, and jagged peaks. This...