Postcard from the Stazerwald

To ring in the new year with a dose of sunshine, we headed over towards St. Moritz for the day. We walked through the forest of Staz and the pretty Lej da Staz, which was of course frozen. From there we walked across the frozen Lej da San Murezzan (Lake St. Moritz) to the train […]

Around the Cape Peninsula

It was in the early hours of the morning when I stepped off the plane in Cape Town. The arrival in the second country I’ve visited in Africa was very different from when I walked across the tarmac at the Kilimanjaro Airport in Tanzania four years ago. The most noticeable difference was the missing smell […]

Winter White

It’s always such a special moment when waking up to snow for the very first time in winter. If I’m then able to stay indoors all day and watch the snowflakes fall, I’m a very happy person indeed. Once it stops, it’s such a treat to be able to walk in the fresh snow, beneath […]