Castello di Vezio at Varenna

Thursday and Friday, August 29-30, 2024 How to explain getting from here to there without boring backstory? Our plan was to leave Lugano, Switzerland this morning and take a bus to Menaggio, a town on Lake Como in Italy. We ate breakfast at our hotel and left about 8 am, taking the aforementioned funicular back […]

Castello di Vezio at Varenna

Thursday and Friday, August 29-30, 2024 How to explain getting from here to there without boring backstory? Our plan was to leave Lugano, Switzerland this morning and take a bus to Menaggio, a town on Lake Como in Italy. We ate breakfast at our hotel and left about 8 am, taking the aforementioned funicular back […]

From Lucerne to Lugano

Tuesday, August 27, 2024 This morning we checked our bags and backpacks for a boat ride to Fluelen, from which we’d take a panoramic train ride to Lugano in Italian-speaking Switzerland. The closer we came to Italy, (and I’m allowed to say this because I’m half Italian) the more out of control things seemed in […]

There is something wrong with the airplane

I will try to be brief but brevity is not my forte. My husband and I arrived late morning in Washington, DC, before a late afternoon flight to Zurich, Switzerland on August 23. He wanted to take a trip to a nearby flight museum to do something with the time between flights. I was nervous–worried […]

Writer’s Block

For the last three years, I’ve been having trouble writing. It seems I just can’t get that inspired about anything. It’s not that I don’t have ideas. I am having difficulty following through with other things besides writing, too, like working around my house, etc. Today I thought I would just write about a trip […]