365 Photo Challenge 280 - 290

Friday 25th November - Day 280

In Horgen at the park next to the ferries with the kids from my work.
Saturday 26th November - Day 281

Outside the Rote Fabrik (red factory still a post to come on that) Alessio played at the playground.
Sunday 27th November - Day - 282

A lovely shop just opposite the chocolate factory.
Monday 28th November - Day 283

Christmas present shopping in Zurich. it is also circus time!
Tuesday 29th November - Day 284

At the Christmas market near Bellevue with friends before seeing the new Twilight movie.
Wednesday 30th November - Day 285

The advent calender that the children made at work!
Thursday 1st December - Day 286

At the Abbey in Einsiedeln with the children from work, horses were in their fields.
Friday 2nd December - Day 287

This is the advent calender for Alessio from his Uncle Luca and Aunt Andrea, they are not around at the moment so they had this idea. He loves it!
Saturday 3rd December - Day 288

In Nürnberg for the weekend with Aimee in a bar we saw this sign!
Sunday 4th December - Day 289

Still Nürnberg lots of food stalls at the Christmas markets.
Monday 5th December - Day 290

The view from the window at work looking onto Au penisula!
Wishing everyone a good week!

E is for Edinburgh

Edinburgh the beautiful capital of Scotland these were taken two years ago over the christmas period. This is the view from Carlton Hill with the castle in the distance, we were lucky to have a clear, sunny but cold day to see all of this.
This is Holyrood Palace which we visited and it was fascinating, I love to hear about history!

I will be back in Edinburgh for a visit over Christmas, looking forward to that and just being back in Scotland.

Christmas Market in Einsiedeln

On December 1st we had a trip with the children from my work to visit the Christmas market in Einsiedeln. It was very misty in and around Lake Zurich but as soon as we got higher all we could see was lovely blue skies and the sun! Once we arrived we made our way towards the Christmas market, the people were all quite friendly and either waved to us or said hello.
It was quite impressive seeing all the huts from this view point, first of all we took the children in the Abbey. We warned them all that it was important to be quiet and they all behaved very well. Then we wandered in and out of the stalls looking at all the goodies on offer.




Right next to the market is a playground and it is there we had our lunch and the children got to run around and play.
We then went to explore around the abbey and we got to see a horse getting a hoof on, which was quite exciting for the children to see. Also we got to see two pigs which was also lots of fun.

The next lot of photos are from walking back down to the station, we all had a nice day out!

Photo of the Week - Heart Time!

This past weekend I went to Nuremberg in Germany to see the Christmas markets with my good friend Aimee. We took full advantage of the weekend without children and had a great time (more to come later). In the meantime while walking around the markets I spotted this heart shaped gingerbread, by the way it is all over the place! For non German speakers it says "I only love you", really cute!

365 Photo Challenge 269 - 279

Monday 14th November - Day 269

One of the many posters around Zurich!
Tuesday 15th November - Day 270

Living next to the chocolate factory means I see all the lovely Christmas decorations.
Wednesday 16th November - Day 271

This is the view from the library in Horgen.
Thursday 17th November - Day 272

On the lantern walk for Alessio, the lantern is made from a turnip, glad that I did not have to help him!
Friday 18th November - Day 273

We invited Jannick and Silas round to play and we ate this cake.
Saturday 19th December - Day 274

This is what I see everyday when I go out of my flat!
Sunday 20th November - Day 275

At Jucker farm enjoying the lovely sky!
Monday 21st November - Day 276

In Kilchberg on my way to the doctor saw this nice house!
Tuesday 22nd November - Day 277

My mother-in-law and Alessio love to eat fish like this!
Wednesday 23rd November - Day 278

In the forest with the kids from work!

Thursday 24th November - Day 279

Some of the work from the kids at work.

A Hike in the Zurichberg

The day before was our work team building outing and we ended up at the Rigiblick, since I had never been up there before I felt inspired to go the next day again with Alessio. I did not have a particular hike in mind just once we got up there to wander around and let Alessio decide the route.


Alessio really enjoyed himself running, picking up sticks and taking photos of everything he could see. The one of his trainers is his own photo!


Not before long we came across this small pond where tadpoles and frogs live (not at the same time) since it was a lovely day, I sat on a bench and Alessio ran around having fun.




We ended up walking to Irchel park which I do not know that well considering I used to live relatively near it. This is the tallest building in Zurich, called Prime Towers at 126m.
In Irchel park the university has some building here, Alessio had fun at the pond, climbing on rocks and running up and down stairs.

Well this weekend is more Christmas markets but this time in Nuremburg!