Blog Posts:
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Biking on the Mosel Cycle Path from Cochem to Senheim in the Mosel Valley, Germany
While in the Mosel Valley in Germany, we biked a loop along the Mosel Cycle Path from Cochem to Senheim and back.
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Hiking to the Winneburg Ruins from Cochem in the Mosel Valley, Germany
While in the Mosel Valley in Germany, we stayed in the town of Cochem, and did a loop hike from there up to the ruins of Winneburg castle.
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Hiking the Trans Swiss Trail – Stage 30 Tesserete to Lugano (Comano)
Stage 30 of the Trans Swiss trail is 5 km long with 220 m ascent and 220 m descent and goes from Tessereste to Lugano (Comano).
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Hiking the Trans Swiss Trail – Stage 29 Bellinzona to Tesserete
Stage 29 of the Trans Swiss trail is 24 km long with 1400 m ascent and 1100 m descent and goes from Bellinzona to Tesserete. We did this as a two day hike with an overnight in Isone.
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Hiking the Mülitobel-Sihl-Weg Trail -Schönenberg(ZH) to Richterswil
The Mülitobel-Sihl-Weg trial is 14km long with 250 m ascent and 560 descent and goes from Shönenberg (ZH) to Richterswil.
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Hiking the Trans Swiss Trail – Stage 28 Biasca to Bellinzona
Stage 28 of the Trans Swiss trail is 25 km long with 120 m ascent and 170 m descent and goes from Biasca to Bellinzona.
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Biking the Legacy Trail – Sarasota to Venice, FL, USA
The Legacy Trail is a paved bike trail that goes from Sarasota to Venice, Florida, USA. We joined the trail at the Bahia Vista access point and rode to the Venice Train Depot end point and back (about 54 km.)
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Hiking the Trans Swiss Trail – Stage 27 Anzonico to Biasca
Stage 27 of the Trans Swiss trail is 18 km long with 440 m ascent and 1150 m descent and goes from Anzonico to Biasca.
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Visiting the Rosengart Collection Museum, Kapellbrücke and Jesuit Church in Luzern
The Rosengart Collection Museum in Luzern is the private collection of art-dealer Siegfried Rosengart and his daughter Angela. The collection is mainly comprised of works by Pablo Picasso (with whom they had a personal relationship) and Paul Klee.
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Hiking the Rundweg Winterthur – Kempttahl to Elsau, Tolhusen
The Rundweg Winterthur trail is a 10 stage, 70 km loop trail that follows along the Winterthur city limits. For our hike, we only did the 15 km long section recommended on the SwissMobility website that went from the Kempttahl train station to the bus stop in Elsau, Tolhusen.
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Hiking at Horgenberg – Horgenberg, Nordecke to Hirzel Loop
For our last hike of 2022, we decided to do something close by and headed up to the Horgenberg for an easy loop around the fields to Hirzel and then back along the ridge past Hirzel Höhi. This isn’t an “official” hiking route, but I decided to write a post about it anyway.
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Learning Züridüütsch, the Zürich Swiss German Dialect
One of the frustrating things for me about learning German in Zürich has been how different High German. In this post, I have put together a few links to provide a brief introduction to Züridüütsch that I found helpful, along with some ideas on where to get more practice with it.