There is no lake in the world quite the color of Oeschinen Lake (Oeshinensee in German), I’m sure of it. I don’t even know what color to call it, because to say ‘blue’ wouldn’t be getting it right. When you think about how many things in nature are ‘blue’, it seems we’ve failed to come […]
A Guide to Incredible Lavertezzo, Switzerland
It felt like standing in the Mediterranean sun that day, atop a rock, ready to jump into the clearest water I had ever seen. I thought that photos of Lavertezzo were highly edited, then I saw it for myself and realized that no, this is probably some of the clearest, cleanest water on earth. In […]
Skiing in Davos, Switzerland: An Alpine Wonderland
The train chugged along on that crisp February morning and I looked out the window, so happy to be back in the Swiss Alps, and so amazed by how dramatic those mountains always look. I’d been to Switzerland just once before when I followed my late grandmother’s journal there, but that was in the summertime […]
Nobody Told Me Switzerland is So Beautiful
For the final stop on Mom and my journey following my Grandmother’s journal around Europe, we continued along the Alps and landed in Zermatt, Switzerland. Why didn’t anyone tell me before that Switzerland is so dang beautiful? This was the place Granny went into the most detail about regarding the landscape. She branched off from […]