Last week Mel and I finally managed to squeeze in a little outing – this time to Schaffhausen, a little town on the Rhine right on the German border. Our main goal for the day was to visit the Albert Anker exhibition…a Swiss painter famous for his wonderful portraits. Of course the ones we wanted [...]

As expected, Barcelona was wonderful. There’s just something about the city that I love – and the warm sunshine,blue skies and views of the Mediterranean didn’t disappoint – in fact I enjoyed them all the more because I had driven to the airport along snow-covered roads… Unfortunately I didn’t have much time for sightseeing, but [...]

It’s a good one! Helen

Today is one of those fabulous bright, clear, cold, snowy winter days that we experience far too seldom in the Zürcher Oberland, where it’s habitually grey and foggy in the winter. Despite the cold it was too good an opportunity to miss. So camera in hand, husband and I headed out into the farmland that [...]

Last week my friend Charla and I set off on a quest to visit a couple of quilt shops within an hour’s drive of where we live. Quilt shops are pretty few and far between here, but we’d heard about these two for a while and decided to have a self-indulgent afternoon. Well you have [...]