What I love about Switzerland in winter is its easy access to an array of winter sports. No matter where you are, within a relatively short drive up a mountain, you can find a regional playground that hosts all the cross-country-skiing, snowshoeing, sledding and even downhill skiing you can handle. [Read more…]
Tracking Down the Best Fondue in the World
You can’t very well visit the land of cows and not eat the cheese. Fondue, after all, is Switzerland’s national dish; they’re famous for it! So you can bet they do it better than anyone. It doesn’t hurt either that Switzerland produces the highest quality milk in the world—the Swiss, in general, are all about quality and attention to detail, from their watches to their cheeses. [Read more…]
Costa Rica is Fabulous in Rainy Season!
This is our son Julien when he was four years old. We took two weeks to travel through Costa Rica in September, during the rainy season. It’s a great time of year to go because you avoid the crowds, and the rains mostly came in the afternoon, around 3 p.m., once we had finished our day’s activities. We enjoyed seeing lizards and monkeys on the beach at Manuel Antonio National Park.
We rented a car and drove from there to plenty of other locations along the same stretch of ocean, and then went inland to visit and hike around the volcano, splurging a little on a beautiful resort there. Seafood, sand, volcanoes, swimming pools, and riding on cables through thick rainforest. Costa Rica is gorgeous and has a lot to offer.
A Beach House in Koh Samui, Thailand
During our two-month stay in Thailand in 2013, we knew we had to chill somewhere for more than a couple of weeks. So we spent three weeks on a quiet, peaceful beach in Koh Samui, letting our two kids run wild in front of our bungalow. We lucked out! We rented a great place from airbnb.com.
The water in front was calm and shallow, so we would wake in the morning, eat out on the deck, and let the kids splash around until it was time for that day’s adventures.
Eating Bugs in Bangkok
Ummmm… yummy… of course, eating dried crickets and worms is easy for Lily, who’s two years old and doesn’t have any pre-conceived ideas about eating bugs. She LOVES them, and asks for more. I asked my husband, Pierre, how they taste (ah-hmmm, I was the only family member unwilling to overlook my preconceptions and eat them). He said, “Crunchy, with soy sauce.” Here is Lily and Pierre, eating grasshoppers on the popular, touristy Khao San Road in Bangkok, a lively place to be–bugs or no bugs!
