Dunedin Street Art Part 1

Dunedin is the second largest city on the South Island in New Zealand and we spent 4 days exploring this small city and the wildlife in the surrounding Otago peninsula. Dunedin is full of fantastic street art as you can see from the photos. I took loads of photos so will post the rest later on. There is a map you can get to find all the art and there are about 26 or more, we did not see them all.

Slowly things are getting back to normal and the jet lag is going but with it being so hot it is anyway difficult to sleep. The past weekend was busy with my sister Elena being here, and of course we went to the Street Parade, which was lots of fun as usual. Plus yesterday evening I went to see Justin Timberlake with some friends.

Alessio has been busy since he returned from NZ, he spent a few days in Austria with his dad and will go to Europa Park on Sunday.

Wishing you all a great weekend



 Europa Park on the Sunday.

Singapore Lights!

We are back from our big trip to New Zealand, we had a fab time and saw lots of amazing things. We stopped in Singapore both ways and on the return we had a long enough layover to do the free tour offered by the airport.

It last 2.5 hours and just offers a glimpse of this huge city. Once through immigration and that took a while, we hopped onto our bus and boy were we happy to cool down a bit. As many will know Singapore is quite near to the Equator around 137 km away so that means it is hot, hot and hot all the year long.

Those of you that know me, know that I don't like it being so hot, so why visit Singapore you may ask! Well I wanted to see this city once and all the amazing buildings, but dam it was unbearably hot. Even poor Alessio felt bad too!

Anyway we had two stops on the tour, first at Merlion Park, where we saw Singapore Flyer, Marina Bay Sands and the Esplanade. The second stop took in Gardens by the Bay and we saw an amazing light show and these awesome supertrees!

There is another tour called Heritage tour which is during the day, ours was called City Sights tour. We booked through our travel agency when I bought the tickets. As there is only two per night they get booked fast. Our tour was fully booked!

Now back in Zürich and I am super happy it is raining and may cool down a bit!

Have a great weekend!

A Visit to Säntis Mountain

Back in April when my parents were here we visited the mountain Säntis, I drove there and it was not a too long of a drive.

Säntis is 2,509m above sea level and is the highest mountain in the northeastern part of Switzerland. When it is a clear day you can see into 6 countries Switzerland, Germany, France, Liechtenstein, Italy and Austria.

It wasn`t a totally clear day, but we were happy with the views we saw and right at the top was a little chilly as you can imagine. We had our lunch in one of the restaurants and made our way back down. It is short trip up and down.

Back down again we decided to go on a circular walk which took around 1 hour. There were plans still covered in snow and slippy to say the least, but we made without any incidents! We saw lots of lovely spring flowers and the sun came out for the rest of our walk. Once we finished our walk we had the obligatory coffee and cake.

The prices for the cable car are actually not as expensive as for other Swiss mountains. Adults without half-price card, it is only 45ch both ways. For kids and adults with the half-price card is it 22.50ch. I have a junior card for Alessio so he got for free which was even better!

Summer holidays have started for both myself and Alessio, and tonight we fly to Singapore and then on to Auckland! We are both really looking forward to this trip!!

Happy holidays!

A Long Weekend in Riga, Part 1

Monument to the Red Latvian Riflemen

Vansu Bridge

National Library

Riga Castle

Dome Square

Riga Cathedral

The Three Brothers

Dome Square

One of the long weekends we had early in Spring Alessio and I went to Riga, which is the capital of Latvia. Riga had been on my list of cities to visit for ages, so I was glad to finally cross it off!

It is such a lovely and colourful city in which we mainly just wondered around the enjoying all the scenery. We did do the hop on/off tourist bus which Alessio likes to do, I am not so bothered either way. I had planned to go on a day trip to the city of Jurmala, which is on the sea but in the end decided to stay in Riga and visit some museums.

I had so many photos that I decided to do two posts about Riga and the next one will come after our holidays.

So it is nearly the start of the school holidays for Alessio, the rest of this week and next week and finally we go on our big, big trip! We both can`t wait!!

Have a great mid week!