Penny and Bruce Go Walkabout: Visiting friends in Switzerland

Monday, October 17, 2011

Visiting friends in Switzerland

Susan, Michael, and Anina are dear friends who live in Switzerland. Penny has known Susan since they lived in Bangkok in the 1950s. Susan's father was English and her mother Estonian. She and her family now live in Steinhausen, a village in the canton of Zug. They are wonderfully hospitable people and it is always a joy to visit them. We just relaxed together, ate raclette, and went for a drive in the countryside.

We did have a bit of trouble getting to their house this time. We drove from Strasbourg, and since we had a great deal of time, we took a scenic detour through Germany's Black Forest. The road signs in Switzerland are not as easy to use as are the French ones. Our Swiss friends were not overly thrilled to learn of our opinion in this matter, but they got over it! ;-)

Fancy car, huh?

We sadly took our leave and drove to Melun, outside Paris. There, we had reserved a hotel room by the A5 autoroute to enable us to get to Charles de Gaulle Airport tomorrow for our flight to New York.

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Itinerary

Blogs are in reverse order, so you see the end first. Since this blog is fairly large, here are the dates to find entries from different places: Eastern United States, September-November 2010; Santiago de Chile December 2010-January 2011: Antarctica February 2011; Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay, February-April 2011; California April 2011; Ireland May 2011; Scotland and Netherlands June 2011; Paris, July-August 2011, Central Europe and Strasbourg September-October 2011; New York, November 2011, California December 2011-January 2012

Welcome and Bienvenidos!

In 2010, Penny and I were in Lima. We decided then to give up the lease on our San Francisco home when it expired that summer. Figuring that we were spending too much money for four years renting a house from which we were gone half the time traveling, we would get a smaller place. That idea worked its way down to a storage unit, and we decided to go live in places that we had visited before and liked.

Some of my friends contend that I should write and publish a travel book. Perhaps. In the meantime, this blog will have to do.

pennyandbruceroundworld2008.blogspot.com

pennyandbruceroundworld2008.blogspot.com/

If you want to see the journal of our trip around the world in 2008, done almost without airplanes (one flight of about an hour became unavoidable) then click on the above link.