Flowers in Bloom

I can safely say that I have taken loads of flower photos. This is just a selection of some of them. Spring is certainly a great season for flowers after the dreary winter where there are not some many flowers to see. I just love to see the colourful displays around. The bottom two photos are from Wädenswil and this garden was really lovely.

I have this week off and we returned from a short break in Lugano on Tuesday where we got one nice day, but not much we can do about the weather. I will do a post about that trip, but suffice to say the flower displays were really fantastic.

Happy mid week

Views From Lake Zurich

Well long time no see, I finally decided to try to get back into blogging. Well let's if I really will after all.

Let us go back to the Spring holidays, we were supposed to have gone and a cruise but as we all know that was quite impossible to do. Instead I went walking up and down the lake, enjoying the sun. It was actually pretty dam warm in April. I did not walk huge amounts and sometimes took a book along too. It is really a lovely lake and some great views. 

I did manage to get to Scotland in the summer holidays and have lots of lovely pictures of the Shetland Islands. I will post them eventually. In October, I have one week off and we will be staying in Switzerland and seeing some sights here.

So this is goodbye for the moment, see you all soon

Spring is coming!

Technically spring started today but it did not feel like it unlike last week which was very spring like indeed. In fact most of these photos were taken last week so you can see it was just a lovely spring week!

Have a lovely week!

Bächlihof Farm

The weekend was lovely with great weather, now it has gone a bit colder! Alessio started off the weekend with a football match which I am very glad to say his team won 6-4. I was very happy as the week before they got such a thrashing!

The day continued with a trip to the cinema to see Kung Fu Panda 3 for Alessio with a friend and I saw London Has Fallen.

On Sunday I decided to visit Bächlihof farm, at first Alessio wasn`t to keen about the whole idea. Once we arrived and he saw the big haystack, he was a happy chap! From January to mid May the farm has made things out of straw and apples. It is a lovely place to visit, lots of good food and the kids are kept busy. One of the things was an old style telephone which I don`t have a photo here, but it is on facebook and instagram if you fancy checking it out! It was quite cool!



Some links to check out:

New cities to visit
Spring essentials
World Poetry day

A Long Weekend in Paris!

Chopin Grave

The last weekend of May, Alessio and I visited Paris, for me it was my fifth time, for Alessio it was his first. The main reason was because we were invited to the wedding of Heidi and Lamine, so I planned numerous activities that would be of interest to Alessio.

We arrived on Saturday around lunchtime and we headed straight for our hotel which was very near to the Arc de Triomphe which I already posted about. I thought Alessio would really like to visit Musée de l´Armée which is situated at Les Invalides, this is the national military museum of France. He liked seeing the exhibition on guns, tanks, weapons, different types of uniforms and war, we also saw the tomb of Napoleon I.

Afterwards we headed to see the Eiffel Tower, no trip to Paris is complete without seeing it (although you can see it from afar in many places) it is one of my favorite sights.  We did more wondering around the beautiful streets and found somewhere to eat.

The next day was rainy but we headed to an area which was new to me too, situated on the left bank of the river Seine is the Parc André Citroen. One of the highlights is a tethered helium balloon which you can go in and rises 300m and you see some of the Parisian sights. Sadly due to the weather we could not go in the balloon so we just walked around the park which was full of people jogging.

That evening was the wedding which I do not have so good photos to show you all! We had a good time and saw some friends which I do not see regularly.

Finally on the Monday our last day we only really had the morning to do some exploring, so we visited the Pere Lachaise Cemetery which I had wanted to visit for some time.  This cemetery has quite a lot of famous people buried here such as Oscar Wilde, Moliere, Chopin, and Jim Morrison which I wanted to see. Unfortunately I wondered up and down the row where he is buried but could not see it. Alessio had a great time climbing over the graves and jumping around, in fact he was so pleased to be here he shouted out "Mummy thank you for bringing me here"!

So our long weekend in Paris was over we headed to the Gare de Lyon for our train back to Zurich. If travelling to Paris from Zurich the train is much better than the plane as you are right in the centre of Paris on arrival!