Jenny and I went and looked at all the churches in Strasbourg so that you don’t have to. Yes, they’re beautiful, but after a while, you just get worn out.
I found the markets in Europe to be delightful and delicious. Above are some delicious sausages that we saw in an outdoor market in France. There were outdoor markets in almost every city we visited, and for the most part, they weren’t very touristy; that is, they were by and for locals. Note to self [...]
“saddest and most moving piece of rock in the world”, Lucerne, Switzerland. From the wikipedia article on Lucerne: Bertel Thorvaldsen’s famous carving of a dying lion (the Lion Monument, or Löwendenkmal) is found in a small park just off Lowenplatz. The carving commemorates the hundreds of Swiss Guards who were massacred in 1792 during the [...]
snail, Saanen, Switzerland So one of the debates I kept having with myself during the trip was whether the rental car was worth it, or if we should have done what most normal people would have done and ridden the trains instead. The reason we originally decided on the car was a combination of enhanced [...]
The other thing we did while in Nice was to pop over to Cannes during the 60th anniversary of the famous film festival. We only wanted to stay for a little while to experience the zeitgeist, and so we weren’t planning on camping out near hotel entrances just for celebrity watching, but we got “lucky” [...]
Looking down on the Plage la Mala beach, near Monaco. We spent an afternoon lazing around on this beautiful beach in
Jenny, Christophe, and Martin, sitting down to a meal of raclette, in Martin’s Geneva flat. Raclette is delicious — think of delicious cheese, melted and poured over various processed meats, such as salami, prosciutto, etc., and potatoes. Doesn’t really get much more basic, comforting, and delicious than that. Other traditional Swiss meals are fondue (melted [...]
We went on a tour of the wine catacombs in Beaune, France, and visited only a single cellar: Patriarche et fils (Patriarche and sons). They are the largest cellar in the city, with over 5 kilometers of hallways upon hallways, with millions of wine bottles silently aging to perfection. For our 20€, we got to [...]
We’re here in the Jungfrau valley in Interlaken, Switzerland, and it’s beautiful. From Nice, we drove through Italy, spent a night in Torino, then crossed the border into Switzerland, with the goal of making it all the way to Interlaken. We had a brief detour in Gstaad and Saanen, two tiny ski hamlets that fit [...]
‘Allo from the French Riviera! In a previous episode, our heroes were headed south, to the Cote d’Azur region of France, in an attempt to find some beaches (preferably topless (although I shan’t mention exactly whose preference it was)) for some quality relaxation time. The accommodations story has been interesting. We went from the world’s [...]