Jamie Thingelstad

Travel

Detailed travel logs and trip journals live here. Expect day‑by‑day itineraries (e.g., our Switzerland & Italy trip) with weather notes, meals and family anecdotes, plus posts on museum visits, road‑trips and cruises.

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.

Four hikers with trekking poles pose against a stone wall beside a yellow trail sign for Parlongh and Casaccia in Switzerland.

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!

Group of eight hikers in rain gear sheltering from a storm under the stone overhang of an old building, smiling for a selfie.

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.

Rustic stone staircase built into the exterior wall of an old alpine stone building, with flat slate steps and wooden windows.

Grevasalvas Switzerland

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.