On a river cruise you just never know what the day will bring. When you're travelling with friends it gets even more interesting.  Our Tuesday morning looked a little bleak as we sat down to breakfast. The falling rain didn't bode well for the bike ride we had all been looking forward to. That's when Larry decided to lighten the mood and share with us a strange thing that had been happening to him frequently in the last few days. He often took a ...

This blog is the last for Switzerland and the first for our return trip north through Germany. Our last full day in Switzerland was another perfect day thanks to the sun, my friend Katharina and her father. After sipping our coffee while enjoying a last look at the lovely village of Isenthal (in the sun) we packed up and headed to Schmerikon where we met Walter and Katharina. We had tickets to a concert in the Appenzell valley at a town called Toggenburg. None of...