Greetings! We have spent the last 5 days in Schönenbuch (France) and Basel (Switzerland) with Martin and Jill, soaking up the European lifestyle... enjoying beautiful food and copious amounts of wine (clearly making the most of it before India...)! We wanted to jot down a few of our refections before we head back home to the UK tonight... Firstly we've been struck at how incredibly efficient Switzerland seems to be. From the - always on time - exceptionally clean - public transport, to the - extremely - well-behaved dogs, who are mostly off lead and allowed in any restaurants and/or shops (including, much to our amazement, very posh department stores). Having always hated public transport in the UK (the crammed, sweaty tubes, buses and trains which nearly always seem to be late... never fail to increase
... read more