Ah switzerland home of those handy little multi tools, Swiss cuckoo clocks and soaring mountain peaks. Woke up and finally can have real north American coffee with one cream and 1/2 sugar, albeit instant coffee. Stepped out on the deck and it was a brisk 1 degree Celsius but sunny . Our villa is a studio apartment with a king bed, small couch, breakfast nook with all the appliances and a beautiful rain shower equipped water closet.....Gone euro with that one ...

Travel day with periwinkle and I splitting Riogimorre like a banana splits at Dairy Queen .. we gone with our train departing at 7:20am for la spezia, then catch a train to Milan, and then to Brig, Switzerland. There, we need to catch a local train which weaves in and around mountain ranches before arriving at Zermatt. We befriended our "ticket please " lady who became our personal guide pointing out glaciers, swinging bridges, mountain ranges and landslide...

Got up bright and early and did my usual coffee thing and sat on the deck letting the morning slowly start. Waited till 10 am and woke periwinkle and she surprisingly didn't say her patented "10 more minutes" line. At 11, we were off to the harbour to grab a boat so we could get a better view of the 5 villages from out at sea. It costs 12 euros each for a one way pass. The boat arrived and on we went. It stops at each village , other than Corniglia and let's...

Okay up at 6:30 am because I was all excited about having a regular good old fashioned North American coffee. Albeit instant. Boiled wate, put coffee in and sip away... oh the aroma. I have tried but I just don't get cappuccinos and expresso coffee. I want Tim's, hell I like McDonald's coffee. But I want coffee....enough said Woke periwinkle up at the crack of 10am with a strong game plan, 75 percent researched and 25 percent let's see what happens. Out t...

It appears that we're having problems with our blog again. Harry just finished typing it and when we tried to save it, it disappeared. I'm going to give you a bit of our day but without Harry's witty humour. Today was quite an uneventful day, my sweetie had gotten up beforehand me and was doing laundry, I'm not a fan of front load washing machines and apparently, I wasn't doing it right. I get up and make myself a cup of coffee, and take a sip. It didn'...