Switzerland & Italy Log - Day 3

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

  • Breakfast at Hotel Guardaval
  • Depart at 9a for day of hiking
  • Hike Scuol to Guarda. We ended hike at Ardez and took train and bus to Hotel Messier in Guarda
  • Relax with Coca Cola on terrace of Hotel Messier
  • Delicious dinner at Hotel Messier

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Switzerland & Italy Log - Day 2

Weather: Hot and Sunny.

  • Breakfast at Motel One
  • Took Tram with luggage to Zurich HB
  • Stored luggage at station (23-06, 23-09)
  • S24 train to Kilchberg
  • Visit Lindt Home of Chocolate
  • S8 train back to Zurich HB
  • Quickly retrieve luggage from storage, only 15 min stop
  • Boarded IC909 to Landquart
  • Transfer traina to Scuol
  • Tammy published her first blog post in over 11 years! 🀩
  • Taxi to Hotel Guardaval in Scuol
  • Walk around Scuol a bit
  • Meet fellow hikers and guides Dave and Erik for dinner
  • Delicious four course dinner at hotel

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Some photos walking around Scuol, Switzerland.

We have arrived at the Hotel Guardaval in Scuol! πŸ”οΈ

We were in this exact same spot 19 years ago.

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

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

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

Switzerland & Italy Log - Day 1

Weather: Warm & Sunny

  • DL162 land In Amsterdam (10:26a)
  • Sit on tarmac for 55 minutes waiting for gate to be available
  • Clear passport control
  • DL9568 to Zurich
  • Landed in Zurich (2:06p)
  • Checked in at Motel One Zurich
  • Tuk Tuk Fondue Tour
  • Walk around old city
  • Sleep early, everyonr tired

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

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

Hello πŸ‘‹ from Amsterdam πŸ‡³πŸ‡± for about an hour. Heading on the KLM Cityhopper to Zurich πŸ‡¨πŸ‡­.

Switzerland & Italy Log - Day 0

Weather: Very nice warm day.

  • Lyft to MSP. Super nice driver.
  • Cheeseburgers at Shake Shack. πŸ”πŸ”πŸ” Mazie got a quesadilla somewhere else.
  • DL162 to Amsterdam departing at 7:50pm.
  • Change to Central European Time, ahead 7 hours.

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

Up late setting up Tammy’s new Apple Watch Series 8 before we leave for vacation.

The #TeamSPS Coffee Guild met today and Rob Rutscher brought in his Decent Espresso machine along with the Niche Zero grinder and served up delicious coffee for folks today. Brought a lot of joy. β˜•οΈ

I’m not particularly enthusiastic about Bluesky but I do have it setup and have micro.blog syndicating my posts. I do like how Bluesky supports using your domain as your profile name and was happy to set that up. You can find @thingelstad.com and @weeklything.com.

Needed two more sets of hiking poles for our trip to Switzerland. Tyler and I went to REI and after consulting with the hiker in the store decided on LEKI sticks. I got the Makalu Cork Lite and he got the Lhasa.

Bubbles.

Look up.

These three pork butts spent 18 hours in the Sous Vides at 165 Β°F and are finishing with 2 hours on the Big Green Egg at 220 Β°F. πŸ–πŸ”₯