Category: 2008 Europe

Our plan for the day was to leave Serafino at about 9:30 am, say our farewells at the cure, and then head off to Zurich with plenty of time to dally along the way if we needed or wanted. We rose  shortly before 8:00 am, showered, ate breakfast, and completed our final preparations. Shortly after 9:30 am we were at...

Sunday dawned just as overcast as Saturday, with the mountaintops shrouded in mist. Our planned 10:30 am start allowed us the benefit of sleeping in until some time after 8:00 am when we rose, showered and had breakfast. Although we could see down into Sierre and Majella fancied that the cloud was clearing in the west, the Val d’Anniviers, our...

We rose at about 8:00 am, ate a quick breakfast, and then slipped out to the local supermarket to pick up some Swiss chocolate that Majella and Joel needed to complete their collections of homecoming gifts. Based on past experience we were able to navigate to the western end of Sierre, and locate the shopping mall which we knew to...

Marie Francoise had suggested that we should be ready to leave on an excursion to Sion by 9:30 am. We started about 7:30 am to shower, breakfast and get ready and could easily have been ready by 9:00 am if necessary. When our hosts had not appeared by 9:40 am Majella began to wonder whether the arrangement might have been...