Hmm… Two years since the last post, titled ‘No year without mountains’. I guess I may have jinxed myself a bit there… I’m very much still alive though – but family-life just doesn’t leave as much time for neither photography (at least not the kind involving other things than, well, family-life) nor blog-writing, as I had gotten used to. Even though I still do manage to take a picture here or there, this year I somewhat realized that my trusty D750 (and the 24-120mm lens on it), as amazing as it still is, was probably part of the problem. Being…
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As noted in my last post, 2022 has been busy with “other” things than going on trips and taking pictures. That didn’t mean that we didn’t go on trips at all though. In fact, we managed quite a couple of weekend trips around the country… And of course – in Switzerland, that’s difficult without going at least *a bit* into the mountains :)
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Ouch. Almost one year passed by before I could get around to make another post. There are probably two main reasons for that…
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Last week I think I managed to hint a bit that there was more coming up – from the (probably) last adventure of 2021. At least, probably the last adventure in the Swiss landscapes. We’re celebrating Christmas in Switzerland this year, so I’ll be doing some adventures in the kitchen – but the results of that are more likely to end up in my belly, than on the blog ;) Ahem. Anyways. Much of November had been foggy, grey and generally just plain “ungemütlich”. The leaves were gone, it was getting cold and wet, there wasn’t yet any good snow…
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As hinted at in the last post – there was more in the backlog… Quite a bit actually! Maybe enough to make a small advent calendar out of it? I guess we’ll see next week ;) In any case – the last post ended with a late-summer hike in Entlebuch, and after that, autumn slowly started to take its grasp on Switzerland. That also meant that we were starting to figure out how to best go out and experience it. After last year’s weekend in Engadin, we were quite hooked on going somewhere for more than just a single day.…
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I’ll admit it. I’ve been feeling a bit bad about not putting up more posts lately. I’ve even missed out on my usual “seasonal” posts for summer and autumn. It’s not that I haven’t been out with the camera, but probably mainly because I’ve often not had more than a couple of pictures from each occasion that I wanted to share – and then the motivation to make time to get it done, also goes a bit down. But – 2021 is definitely not going to end with only two entries here. So, like back in 2017, let me try…
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After a couple of months with much to do, my wife and I finally had a weekend free. We (or at least, I) had big ideas about going to the mountains, staying multiple days to really unwind and see some of the places that you usually don’t get to see on a single-day trip. But then came the weather forecast and put a damper on all that. Overcast, rain, cold over all of Switzerland for most of the weekend. Oh well. Only Saturday morning looked somewhat decent. Out thus went the fancy plans, and in came a more modest one…
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It’s not hard to find snow in Switzerland if you really want to. 4½ years ago, I spent an otherwise exhaustingly hot Saturday in late August in the snow on Jungfraujoch. However, snow in Zürich is a different beast altogether. While it’s not unheard of, it’s usually at best (or worst of course, depending on your inclination towards it) a few centimeters that turn into a soggy brownish, dark-grey substance faster than you can start humming songs about building snowmen. The winter of 2020-2021 though, delivers! The first half of December had already been white-ish (at least in Bonstetten), and…
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Autumn – the days are getting shorter, the air cooler, and the colors more and more amazing for every day that passes. My wife and I had managed to keep a weekend free in the calendar, and decided that we wanted to go somewhere special. As usual, the problem in Switzerland is not so much finding a nice place to go, but more deciding which of the many, many nice places to actually choose. After investigating things for a bit, we found a solution though: Sils Maria – in Engadin, in the canton of Graubünden. It was far enough away…
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