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Weather: Warm morning in Florence. Airports fine.

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On the final evening of our Switzerland & Italy trip we slowly walked around the Duomo in\nFlorence and took in the grandeur. We all admired it and Mazie and I “breathed it all in”. It’s a goofy thing we like to do to really take in the scene with a big, deep breath. It started by breathing in the waterfalls in Iceland.

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As we were standing there it hit me that this is the last family vacation we’ll take before she goes off to college.

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Many new journeys are ahead. But I’d be fine keeping things just as they are too.

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Boarding the KLM Cityhopper in Florence to begin our journey back to Minneapolis via Amsterdam! 🛫

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I’m more than twice as active when we travel versus “normal”. 🚶🏼‍♂️

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Weather: Hot and sunny.

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Restful.

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Trees embracing.

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Weather: Warm and cloudy in the morning. Hotter and sunnier in the afternoon.

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Tuscan countryside.

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Michelangelo’s David.

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Weather: Cool morning in Venice. Very nice. Much warmer in Florence in the evening. Nice in the shade.

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Tammy and I are celebrating our 21st Anniversary today in Italy. Our marriage is now old enough to drink! 🍻 With the help of the kids we recreated one of the photos from our wedding reception 21 years ago! What an amazing adventure that I’m so lucky to have such a wonderful partner in! 🥰

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We have arrived in Florence! 🇮🇹

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Doorbell or Robot Face? 🤖 In Campo Drio la Chiesa in Venice.

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Bulldog waiting patiently for its person to return in Campo Sant’Anzolo in Venice.

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Weather: Warm and sunny, cool evening

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Gondoliers awaiting their tourists.

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Sweet delights in shop window in Venice.

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The colorful houses of Burano, Italy were amazing to see this morning.

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We visited Venissa to see the beautiful vineyard and taste the unique native wine of Venice. I decided to bring a bottle of this special wine home.

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Stop at Art Café to rest, get shade, and have a cappuccino in Murano.

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Weather: Cool and cloudy in morning. Warm and sunny in afternoon. Overall nice day.

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Family photo on the Grand Canal of Venice at sunset.

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Weather: Started warm in the morning. Thunderstorms in Milan in afternoon. Warm in Venice.

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We have arrived in Venice! 🤩

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Cappuccino at Marchesi in Milan this morning. Has been operating since 1824, 199 years.

\n\"Cappuccino\n", "date_published": "2023-07-24T04:01:43-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2023/07/24/cappuccino-at-marchesi.html", "tags": ["Coffee","Travel","Switzerland \u0026 Italy 2023"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2023/07/23/we-went-back.html", "content_html": "

We went back to Mad Machines and completed the Time Machine room. This room is ranked 39th in the world and had incredible effects and awesome puzzles as well. Incredible job to the designers at Mad Machines! Room 52!

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Weather: Hot and hot

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Tyler and I were having fun watching the max speed of our train back to Milan. Hit 245 km/h or 152 miles/h. Felt fast! 🚄

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We all got our photos at the Ferrari Museum in Maranello.

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The Museo Ferrari Maranello exhibit for the various Formula 1 winners over the years was an incredible experience. Standing amongst such legendary winners was amazing.

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On the express train 8803 this morning from Milan to Modena to visit Ferrari today!

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We completed the Birth Machine room at Mad Machines in Milan, Italy! This is the 4th ranked escape room in the world and we had a great time. The subject of the room was fun and “unique”, and the puzzles were so well done! 🧩 Room 51!

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Weather: Warm and sunny in the morning.

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Some photos inspired by Maique as I was walking around Varenna, Italy today. 📷🇮🇹

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Having a cappuccino at Albergo La Soglina with the mountains, luggage ready, getting some tasks done before we start our travel to Milan.

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With four heavy suitcases. 💪🧳

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One of many waterfalls along the trail to Soglio.

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After six amazing days of hiking in the Engadine the Thingelstad family all stepped foot in Soglio at the same time and marked the moment.

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Our sixth and final day of hiking into the beautiful town of Soglio.

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\nPart of Switzerland & Italy 2023 collection. Also see Casaccia to Soglio from Europe 2004 Collection collection.\n

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Weather: Cool morning in Sils Maria. Big thunderstorm in mid-morning by Vicosoprano. Cloudy most of the day on trail. Nice on arrival into Soglio with heavy rain in later afternoon. Cool evening.

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On todays hike to Soglio we hit a large thunderstorm. We were luckily able to all huddle under this old out building with a decent overhang on the roof and stay relatively dry and get a group photo!

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Today’s hike left right from the front steps of the Hotel Edelweiss and walked out of Sils Maria to a ascent above the tree line. The ascent was a bit more gradual which I was very appreciated of. We had a great time experiencing Grevasalvas on the trail, a wonderful rest at the top, and a nice hike back along the lack. A bit over 9.5 miles today.

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Part of Switzerland & Italy 2023 collection. Also see Piz Lunghin Summit from Europe 2004 Collection collection.

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While hiking today we passed through Blaunca. This village is a collection of four or five houses and a wonderful stream feeding through it. These steps caught my eye. Stone embedded into the building, and then using additional stones between the steps to provide additional support. Incredible.

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On our hike today we passed through the incredibly picturesque little village of of Grevasalvas. This little collection of houses was used for the production of “Heidi”. It was like stepping backwards in time. Such a cool place to visit.

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Weather: Very cool in the morning warming up through the day. Very pleasant all around.

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I didn’t join the hike today and instead ran my wallet recovery mission. However, I asked that the family take a lot of pictures and here is there journey to the amazing Lake Hahnensee from Pontresina and ending in Silvaplana.

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Part of Switzerland & Italy 2023 collection. Also see Pontresina to Sils Maria from Europe 2004 Collection collection.

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Weather: Very cloudy with rain and thunder in morning. Clear through mid-day with additional heavy rain in late afternoon. Then cloudy and cool in the evening.

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Split path for first half of today:

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Family

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Jamie

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All Together Again

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Tyler felt this picture needed to happen. 🤣

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Family selfie at the Hotel Edelweiss in Sils Maria. 🇨🇭

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Walked out to Nietzsche’s Rock near Silvaplana-Surlej.

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Yesterday I shared that I had lost my wallet. We were still juggling some logistics last night. The mountain huts we are visiting are cash only but our guides have been kind enough to loan us some Swiss Francs. We tried to get cash last night and that proved to be very difficult with the other credit cards we have.

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This morning I woke up a little early and was thinking how someone would contact me if they found my wallet. My website is the first thing that a search engine would suggest for my name and I have this Hello page. My profiles at other sites are listed there and that made me think I should check various social platforms. I went to LinkedIn not expecting much and scanned my notifications.

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To my astonishment there was a comment from Martin Lienhard saying he had found my wallet! 😲

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Incredible! I found the Volg store he mentioned and they didn’t open for another 45 mins. Right at 7:30a I asked the hotel to please call the store and confirm they had it. They did! 🥳

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I let our guides know and took a rest day from hiking (which I was considering anyway) and made the trip to collect my recovered wallet!

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After a train ride back to Guarda, then the bus into the village, I ducked the rain and ran into the Volg Guarda where the nice cashier reached under the counter and produced my wallet! Joy!

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So where was it? The whole thought about the train station in Ardez was a dead end. Martin’s wife found it by one of the city water fountains — the one that we dipped our feet in. That means when I realized I didn’t have it, as we were walking to dinner, it had only just fallen out of my pocket no more than a 100 feet away.

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A huge thank you to Martin Lienhard and his wife and the Volg shopkeeper for recovering my lost wallet! 🙏🤩

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Makes me wonder — we’re the Goats of Guarda watching over me while we were there? 😊

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Weather: Cooler day. Very windy on the mountains today. Raced to chair lift before storm and lightning arrived.

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Tyler, Mazie, and Tammy at the Segantini Hütte.

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Another day of great hiking. Started with train ride to funicular and then a big hike up to the amazing hut followed by a traverse on the mountain and a cold, rainy, stormy descent on a chair lift.

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Part of Switzerland & Italy 2023 collection. Also see Zuoz to Pontresina from Europe 2004 Collection collection.

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Pretty simple calendar for this part of our trip.

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Current POV. Wow!

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Lunch at Segantini Hütte. So amazing.

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Update: My wallet was recovered!

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Yesterday morning I realized I had lost my wallet. The previous day we had finished our first hike and while waiting for the train in Ardez I gave Tyler some cash so that he could get small ice cream cups for the group from this self-serve stand. That was the last time I saw my wallet.

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I realized I didn’t have it when walking to dinner that night, but assumed it was in the room and didn’t think much of it. The next morning I looked for it and started to worry when I didn’t find it right away. Where was it?

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I traced my actions and remembered the ice cream. I also remembered that Tyler brought me change back and I put that in my wallet. But i didn’t. I found the change in my pants pocket.

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So where did my wallet go? I suspect I set it down by the train station thinking I would put the change in it, then I didn’t. I also was rearranging my backpack at the same time.

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Our guides did there best to try and find it. Dave actually took the train back to Ardez the next morning to look for it but no luck, and then hiked back to the group. The hotel called around as well, no luck. By the late afternoon after having looked everywhere multiple times I declared it lost.

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I keep all my important numbers and info in 1Password and years ago read a suggestion to tag items with “Wallet” that are in your wallet. That paid off yesterday when I was able to confidently inventory all I needed to deal with.

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Net it isn’t too big of a deal. Unfortunately I had a good bit of spending money in it and that is gone. But everything else is in the process of getting replaced now. And having everything on my phone gives a good backup.

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While we are in the Engadine Tammy has been hoping to find these amazing ceramic goats that we got and she adores from the first trip here 19 years ago.

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Today, she found them and it is a great story. 🤩

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Every town in the Engadine Valley has multiple water fountains that have the most delicious and pure drinking water just flowing out of them constantly. It is amazing to be able to get fresh delicious water. It is also very cold. We saw some others dipping their feet in this freezing water and thought we would try it as well. It was amazing. It is painful to submerge them, but it made our tired feet feel so much better nearly instantly after hiking so long.

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This post is the location where I eventually found out I lost my wallet, and eventually recovered it!

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Weather: Hot and sunny in the morning. Day cooled off a bit and was nicer in the mountains. Evening cool.

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After getting to Chamonna Tuoi I decided to take one of these mountain grade scooters back down. It was awesome! It took a bit for me to get comfortable on it. The shocks and disc brakes are a must since you brake nearly the whole way down. I got down in 32 mins!

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Amazing spot for lunch at Chamonna Tuoi looking up at Piz Buin.

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Day 2 of our Engadine Hiking adventure and today we hiked up the valley toward Piz Buin ending at Chamonna Tuoi for a delicious lunch of rösti and grilled cheese. The day started with a serious uphill section right away, climbing about 1,600 feet over the first 90 minutes. We stayed at a steady elevation with a little descent, and then finished with a more gradual ascent up to the hut. This route was totally new, and part of the trip spending two nights in Guarda.

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Part of Switzerland & Italy 2023 collection. Also see Zuoz to Chamanna Des-Cha Hut and back from Europe 2004 Collection collection.

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We got into Guarda this afternoon just before 4pm. We made our way through the town to the Messier Lodge and unlacing the hiking boots felt so unbelievably good. We hiked 10.7 miles over 5h 25m. It was a long day and the last couple of miles my feet and legs were feeling it. It was a great accomplishment and I’m going to rest the legs and body for tomorrow!

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Part of Switzerland & Italy 2023 collection. Also see Scuol to Guarda from Europe 2004 Collection collection.

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At the Via Engiadina crossing the Tasnan River rushing down the valley. 🥾

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Weather: Warm and sunny. Cooler in mountains but still hot and sunny at prime of day. Evening clouds and breeze with much cooler temps.

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Weather: Hot and Sunny.

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Some photos walking around Scuol, Switzerland.

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We have arrived at the Hotel Guardaval in Scuol! 🏔️

\n\"Two\n

We were in this exact same spot 19 years ago.

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Tammy published her first blog post in over 11 years! 🤩

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Short video of the demonstration chocolate line at Lindt Home of Chocolate.

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We had a fun (and delicious) time visiting the Lindt Home of Chocolate in Kilchberg this morning.

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Weather: Warm & Sunny

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Cappuccino to hold off the jet lag, Leica to grab sights walking around Zurich.

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It was cool to see UBS prominently marketing their Bitcoin offerings in Zurich airport.

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Hello 👋 from Amsterdam 🇳🇱 for about an hour. Heading on the KLM Cityhopper to Zurich 🇨🇭.

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Weather: Very nice warm day.

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Starting our summer vacation. Boarding flight to Zurich with a stop in Amsterdam. ✈️

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