Year: 2010

  • Hiking in the Lötschental valley

    Our destination this year was Lötschental a valley between the Valais and Bernese Alps. It stretches about 27 kms and on the one side there are wonderful and receding glaciers and on the other side mountain villages and alpine passes. The south-eastern part of the Lötschental has been part of the UNESCO World Natural Heritage…

  • Flowers flowers everywhere

    The journey carried out with the kind of precision that only the Swiss can achieve and before we knew it we were riding a cable car to get to the start of our walk. We were immediately captivated by the beautiful flowers and the majestic surorundings. Gentians,lilies, wall flowers, anemones, forget me nots all there…

  • Hiking in the Swiss Mountains

    There is no shortage of valleys and mountains in Switzerland but each time I go to a new area I am once more thrilled at what I find and enjoy the experience as if it was the first time. On my recent trip we visited the area of Löschental which is between the Valais and…

  • This is the village I used to live in French Switzerland

    It is a small little place called Coppet but it is grand. It has a 17th Century Chateau which is a working one, the family still live there and it is the venue for garden exhibitions, theatrical perfomances and musical concerts. The Chateau is world famous as it was the home of Jacques Necker and his daughter…

  • Walking- are you kidding ?

    Walking can add minutes to your life. This enables you at 85 years old To spend an additional 5 months in a nursing Home at $7000 per month. ********************************************************** My grandpa started walking Five miles a day when he was 60.. Now he’s 97 years old And we don’t have a clue where he is.…

  • Sariska Palace

    We approached Sariska Palace in an unconventional way and ended up getting lost in the shrubland surrounding it so we decided to take a shortcut and climbed over the wall with dresses flapping and inelegant jumps,but we managed and headed in for a swim and a nosey. Cold beers by the pool, then a special…

  • Sariska National Park

    Sariska National Park is about an hour’s drive from Alwar and spreads over 800 square kms. It is a very diverse park ranging from scrubland to craggy mountains, to rock formations that are remininscent of slate and lava. It has waterfalls and dry river beds, fertile valleys and wooded areas so there is no shortage…

  • The Fairy Queen

    It is not often that you can say I was able to give my husband the best birthday present ever and it was called the Fairy Queen. All sorts of images might come to mind but actually she was old, as all the best things are, elegant and smutty and here she is: She was…

  • The Kiran Nadar Museum of Art

    I heard about this on the grapevine as with all the good things in life and finding it was a bit of an adventure but I did find it and was so excited that I want to tell you all about it. This is the first private Museum of Art in Delhi. It is owned by Kiran Nadar,…

  • Fresh Fruit

    There are definitely some rewards to being here in this hot hot season and one of them is all the lovely fruit on the market, from the mangoes to the pineapples, the apples and the pears, the lychees and the grapes and now the cherries and the peaches. Check them out and gobble them up…