by No Ordinary Homestead | Feb 23, 2024 | Europe, Family, France, Switzerland, Travel
Who doesn’t love a spa day or spending the whole morning sunbathing on a gorgeous beach? There are people who love doing relaxing things during their whole holidays, and others who are always excited to try something new and thrilling. If you belong to the latter...
by Tiffany | Apr 17, 2007 | Europe, Rock Climbing, Switzerland, Travel
As you might have guessed, we’re already home and have been for over a week now. But we didn’t get around to writing anything on Sunday or Monday because we were busy doing some climbing and then driving home. Sunday morning we got up and went to have...
by Tiffany | Apr 9, 2007 | Dog Training, Europe, Switzerland, The puppy years (1-2), Travel
We’re back from our short vacation in Switzerland. All in all, Ayla did great and we were really happy that she was so relaxed during the trip. She slept during a major portion of the ride home and has slept a lot the few hours we have been home which we...
by Tiffany | Apr 7, 2007 | Europe, Switzerland, Travel
We’re not really sure at the moment that Ayla is having all that much fun on this vacation so far. Yesterday we drove from Frankfurt to Locarno, Switzerland, which meant about 7 hours in the truck traveling. She’s always great during car rides but we could...
by Tiffany | Apr 7, 2007 | Europe, Rock Climbing, Switzerland, Travel
This morning we were the first ones at Arcegno, a pretty nice area with a couple of routes in our range. Since we haven’t climbing in about a year due to getting the dog, buying the farm and other things that took up our time, we basically have to stick to the...
by Tiffany | Apr 7, 2007 | Europe, Rock Climbing, Switzerland, Travel
We arrived without incident in Locarno yesterday. We didn’t take Ayla with us when we checked in but we ran into the owners over the course of the afternoon anyway. They didn’t seem too alarmed by her size although she massively dwarfed their 4 kg...