This trip had been planned for quite some time, in fact even before last Christmas. My husband usually spends a long weekend in Spring in the Ardèche region, where he and his fellow caving friends go spelunking. This time we were a small group of close friends. We camped, drove around the countryside, went caving, […]
Hotel Grimsel Hospiz
Some of you know that we were huge fans of Swiss Historic Hotels and our goal is to stay at as many as possible. We like how much history is in the buildings and sometimes when we sit in the salons, I can imagine what the hotel was like way back when. Unfortunately, or fortunately […]
Macarons
What do you do when you receive a box of macarons? First photograph them, then sit back and enjoy! It seems to me the frenzy revolving around french macarons has died down a bit. For a while they were all over the internet before time moved on to the next fad. I made quite a […]
Late-Winter Comfort Food
After two weeks of glorious spring weather, the much needed rain came. With the rain, it turned cold and now snow is falling. It is still March after all and it’s not unusual that is snows again. Since we didn’t have much snow this winter anyways, I’m actually happy to look out the window at […]
La Palma, the South
After being able to experience the beautiful almond blossom season in the north, we moved to the geologically younger and much drier southern part of the island, where we spent our second week on the island. Our home during the second week was in Todoque and set amongst a beautiful garden boasting many lovely plants […]
La Palma, the North
We spent two lovely weeks hiking on the island of La Palma, one of the Canary Islands and also known as “la isla verde”. We arrived just in time for the almond blossom and it was more magnificent than I had imagined. The trees grow wild and the white, light pink and dark pink blossoms […]