We spent Wednesday night in Thun with my dad's cousin, Karin, and her husband, Douglas, who is a U.S. Marine. They have a beautiful farm house that they just renovated that is over a hundred years old. We had a delicious dinner with them. The asparagus that we had was, ironically, from California (it is still too early in the season to have the local swiss asparagus)! The next day, David had fresh eggs their hens had just laid for breakfast! After eating, we w...

First of all, the picture for this blog is the view from Gotti and Suni's house into the valley of Bellinzona (you can see the castle if you look really carefully). This is the direction our train headed when we left for Basel. On Tuesday, David and I headed to Basel. My friend Barbara and her boyfriend Michi (both of whom I'd spent time with the last time I was in Switzerland) picked us up at the station and we went to a restaurant for a double date! They bot...

David and I left for Switzerland on Monday, March 22. We took a train to Milano and then to Bellinzona. We boarded the first train at 7am and had yet to figure out the train system. We asked someone and they pointed to the cart we should board. We sat down and before too long, a cart came by and we were given cookies, tea, and hand wipes free of charge. Neither of us thought anything of it, after all, we did pay an arm and a leg for our train tickets. When w...