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Day 107 When I woke up I was disappointed to see that it was cloudy. When the booking office opened up at 8 I spoke to the girl there. ...

Day 108 Around 3:30 am two of three very drunk girls came very loudly into the room. They seemed to have lost the other girl and had no idea ...

One of my personal favourites in hiking is the Grimsel Area. There you can take the cable car “Ghelmerbahn” up to a nice mountain lake. The cable car “Ghelmerbahn” is ...

To the best of our knowledge, our Winger family roots can be traced back to a little mountain village in Switzerland called Wengen.  Today’s symbolic return to that village was ...

www.icsalums.org/ Here is my Ode to my little school in my 1947-1960 hometown. The town of Interlaken, new york. All of about 600 people, as of the ...

On Wednesday the class went to the Top of Europe–Jungfraujoch. It is an absolutely beautiful, snowy mountain that you can see in Interlaken between two other very green mountains. It takes ...

Day 109 I was up early, I had to be. It was going to take me all day to get to Nice, France. I would have liked to spend more ...

Last week we took a trip to Lugano, which is in Southern Switzerland in the Italian-speaking and Italian-influenced part. It was absolutely gorgeous–just like what I imagine Italy will be ...

Winter Honeymoon Ideas July 18th, 2008 Given the heat of summer, more and more people are turning to winter weddings. This makes winter honeymoons a subject you ...

For this edition of flashbackfriday, I will tell you a story about how I didn’t help someone when I could have, with pretty hilarious results, in the beautiful country of ...