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The Main Road in the Western Highlands
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During a day’s driving to the north western corner of Scotland this summer, much of the round trip to our destination was on a road like this.
I Remember
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There are some times of year when it’s strange to be at home in a country where the national history is different. In November, two of them fall within days of each other: Guy Fawkes Night and Armistice Day.
A place by the tracks
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The end of the main train line to Interlaken from Zurich, Basel and beyond, via Bern, takes travellers through the centre of the small city, where the train line passes within feet of buildings in the main shopping centre and past the otherwise quiet lanes and back roads along the river.
The Jungfrau Region in Autumn
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A panoramic view of the snow-laden alps above the autumnally beautiful forests near Interlaken in Switzerland.
Schilthorn in the mist
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A day in the clouds at the Piz Gloria mountain-top revolving restaurant.
Alpine Festival, Lenk
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Mum and Dad were with us in Switzerland a couple of weeks ago, and we visited Lenk – in the mountains above the Simmental valley – to see the alpine festival.
Simply Yannick
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A portrait of a friend and work colleague, shot for a work project earlier this week.
Alphorn on the Bonistock
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A lone musician plays alphorn music on the Bonistock mountain peak, high above the lake and village at Melchsee Frutt in canton Obwalden.
One Way Up
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The single track road from Stöckalp in the Melchtal valley up to the ski resort of Melchsee Frutt is… an experience.
Black Forest in a day
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Photos from a day on the road, travelling a total of around 720 kilometres from our home in Switzerland to the Black Forest in southern Germany.
Justis Valley, Sigriswil
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A Sunday evening drive to the Justis valley, below the Niederhorn, with a landscape photographed to the sound of roaring red stags.
Cailler Factory, Broc
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The Cailler chocolate factory in Broc, Switzerland, photographed in picturesque late afternoon light.
coll8 Social Media Streaming
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coll8, named as an abbreviation of the English word “collate”, allows users of the WordPress publishing software to provide website visitors with a page which collates all of their social media streams into one place: from Twitter and Flickr to Facebook, Vimeo, YouTube and Google Reader.
Where Toblerone comes from*
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A recent blog post by a fellow Brit resident in Switzerland prompted me to head out into Bern. My goal for the lunchtime trip was a university building to the north of the railway tracks; a blue-painted building in the style common throughout the city, which dates to the end of the nineteenth century and…
