Well, it’s almost 1 pm and we’re not yet to Locarno. We’ve got 102 km left according to TomTom which should only take us about an hour…but we’re a few km from the start of the tunnel with full traffic jam. The problem is that they regulate the number of cars that go into the […]

So we’re on our way to Locarno and are about half way there. Our navigation system says we have a little less than 3 hours left which would get us there at about 1 pm. With any luck, this will actually turn out to be true and we can perhaps get in a bit of […]

We’ve packed up our climbing gear and most of the stuff for the dog. I’ve also started packing my travel and overnight bags but hubby is waiting until we go to bed….which will be very shortly. We’re planning to get up at about 5 am and hope to be on the road by 6. We’ve […]

While the water in our house comes from the city, we do have two back up systems for water. The primary back up is a well on our property that can be pumped by hand or through an electric pump. The previous owner of the farm has installed a pipe system that transports well water […]

Ayla is going on vacation over Easter. We’re going to Locarno, Switzerland, to do some climbing, enjoy a bit of Italian atmosphere and hopefully some beautiful weather, too. We’re staying in a two-room apartment in the middle of the city which we stayed at last year. But we didn’t have Ayla yet so this will […]