<We spent the last two days discovering two of the climbing areas close to Locarno. Yesterday we headed out to Ponte Brolla, about 6km away from our apartment. Our Tom Tom had a little trouble finding the area so we spent the better part of an hour driving through the backcountry. The Defender handled well, […]

With the drive behind us, the car parked and our apartment checked into it was time to get settled in, it is now time to seek the other thing we hoped to find here in Locarno: PASTA. We are staying at the Residenza Motta in the heart of the old town of Locarno and the […]

It is Easter and time to start our trial road trip from Germany, to Locarno in Ticino, Switzerland, on the shores of beautiful Lago Maggiore for the Easter weekend. We had the idea of visiting Locarno after reading about the Maggia Valley and its amazing climbing areas in a new German rock climbing magazine called […]

As I have mentioned before, we where looking for a new laptop to use on our road trip. As we where looking to use it as our mobile command center we had to make sure the processing power would be able to handle the work load. But so far we are very happy with our […]

Since we’re living in Germany, we started looking for breeders in the area. When we started the whole puppy search process we were actually still looking at three dogs: Golden Retrievers, Lab Retrievers and Newfs. After talking with some people at our local pet store, we decided that a Lab was probably more work than […]