Are there any downsides to life in Switzerland? Well, 35 cm of snow in about 4 hours while still in November is on the list.

I believe his contention was that will Gilligan dead, he could no longer ruin the chance of rescue every week and everyone else could get off the island. The Howells included.

We had that show in syndication when I was a child. It was dubbed in Swiss German dialect. It was on right after "Our Little Farm", which was called Little House on the Prairie or something similar originally in the USA. I remember speaking English well enough as a kid to know the translated...

Our event is about 400 years older than Oktoberfest, but quite a bit less fun from a beer drinker's perspective. Oktoberfest in Munich is something every beer fan should experience. Basel Herbstmesse is worth going to if you are in town, but not something worth a special trip, unless you have a...

View out my office window of the the city of Basel with the ferris wheel for the Herbstmesse festival. This is a fall/harvest festival that has been happening here since 1471. The tower and smokestack in the front right corner of the picture is the old Warteck brewery, which is now a restaurant...

Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–Atlas) from my front yard. A nice view of the comet over the village of Oberwil, Switzerland. Shot with an iPhone 15.

A drive over the St. Gotthard mountain pass

Thanks. It has been, gasp, 30 years since we got married. :)

And a short hike up to the Froda waterfall..

Spending a few days in Italian speaking Switzerland for my wedding anniversary. This is a lovely part of the country that I don't go to enough, as my Italian is not very good. Picture is out my hotel room window of the waterfront of Lake Maggiore.

This is a nice flashback to last year's beer vacation in Belgium.

Local beer distributor had free delivery for the Euro24 football competitions, so I stocked up on some Belgian beers that are not easy to find in the local supermarket.

I loved my travels in the American west. It is so much like my home in Switzerland, but the sheer scale of what the USA has in terms of nature is astonishing to me...it is just so vast. And of course, beautiful, and also stunning to me in how empty it is in terms of people. I could see myself...

Chivalry II is free on the Epic game store until the 6th of June. I grabbed it as the price is right. It is hard, but still kind of fun. I've never played a game where melee combat is the main thing.

Switzerland is a small country, and nothing ever really happened here, so a lot of church records, land deeds, government records and such still exist. It is especially easy if you have an unusual family name, but perhaps more complicated if your name is Müller or Fischer where hundreds of...

I ordered them from the US. GrogTags was the company.

New beer labels have arrived. Vinyl clings, reusable and writable with erasable markers. The logo says Swiss Witch Beer, which is a nod to my wife's family history of having an ancestor burned as a witch, as was the fashion in our area of the world about 5 centuries ago. My family were all just...

It seems summer has arrived. We missed spring somehow this year. This is a pic from Sunday.

I live about 50 km or so from there, to the west. I live just south of the city of Basel, Switzerland. If you find the three way border or France, Germany and Switzerland, I live there. If I walk out of my back garden and through a small wood, I will cross the French border after about 300...

I've never heard anyone actually mention flammenkuchen online. This is one of the common food items of where I am from. We have about 5 different spellings of it, depending on the country and regional dialect. I live along the Swiss-French-German three way border so Alsatian cuisine is pretty...