Blogs from Berne, North-West, Switzerland, Europe - page 12

USA, wir kommen !!! Endlich, endlich dürfen wir "legal" auf Reisen gehen Unsere Einsprache gegen die 2-fache Ablehnung unseres Dispensationsgesuchs für unsere beiden Kindern durch die Oberstufenkomission hat sich gelohnt. Das Schulinspektorat hat uns grünes Licht gegeben. Damit können wir nun unser Engagement wieder der Planung und weiteren Vorbereitung widmen und werden unsere Reise wie geplant antreten können. Wir freuen uns alle auf die grosse Reise, auf der wir unseren Kids wenigstens einen Teil der USA so wie "the american way of life" näher bringen können. So sieht unser Grobprogramm aus: 23 Tage im Südwesten der USA (Kalifornien, Arizona, Utah) 4 Tage in Miami - Florida bei Markus 4 Tage au der Insel Manjack Cay, Abaco Island, Bahamas Bis es soweit ist, heisst es für uns alle noch ein wenig "G... read more

Sooooo, die letzten Vorbereitungen für unsere Reise sind in vollem gange. Morgen feiern wir unseren Abschied mit all unseren Freunden und nächsten Donnerstag geht es los! Juhui...... read more

BB’s got big travel dreams this year. City crest of Bern is a bear which is also the official symbol of BB. Coincidence?... read more

I have decided to give the group e-mails a miss from now on, and try the travel blog instead! Thought I'd back date a bit for those of you I haven't been in touch with lately! So for my w/e off in November I took off with my friend Claire to Switzerland, I just had this overwhelming need to get out of London for a while, and after a lot of choppin and changing of ideas Claire and I decided on Switzerland, we also had a contact over there to help us out, so all was good. We were up early on saturday morning to catch our stupid o'clock in the morning flight, and it only took 2 hours of flying time to reach our destination of Geneva, then another 1/2 hour on all the travelators ... read more

We stopped in Bern for lunch on the way back to Zurich. Lucerne is a bit nicer, and also in the running for the stopover town, but the train schedule didn't work as well today. We had the chance to try "alpenmacaroni" - noodles with cheese sauce mixed with ham cubes and a bowl of applesauce on the side. It was raining, so we didn't take the time to pay our respects to the bears this year, despite J's desire to do so: .... read more