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Jardin Botanique de Genève Happy Summer (if you're in the Northern Hemisphere that is)! I hope all are staying cool in the heat. As I...

Happy St. Nicholas Day! Today, December 6th, is la fête de la Saint-Nicolas . This was never a day my family observed in the States and it...

One thing I really appreciate about suburban Geneva (and all of Switzerland for that matter) is the accessibility of water fountains. If you...

The date above this beauty says 1660, but is that for the door, too? Who knows. As I mentioned in my thermal baths post , my husband and I r...

So you're touring Europe and you love it, but you're getting to the point where historical monuments are starting to run together, y...

Happy Earth Day! I feel a bit funny saying that as every day should be Earth Day, not just one day a year. It's not like we've got ...

  Happy New Year all!  Bonne année à tous ! I snapped this photo when we were out and about Friday afternoon in Geneva. Alas, no snow at th...

Last year The Ocean Agency , UNESCO, and other partners, launched the Ocean Decade Exhibition. It is an art exhibition that will be travelin...

Photo Tanya Heidrich ©2022 In my last post I wrote about our day out and about in beautiful Rolle, Switzerland. While we were there, we had ...

I live in France, but we are right on the border with Geneva, Switzerland . One side of the street behind our home is in France, the other i...

Château de Chillon, Montreux, Switzerland – ©2017 Shani Thomas all rights reserved. I was hopeful when I wrote 2020's holiday post that...

European and American supermarkets are definitely different. There are things you see in European grocery stores that you never – or hardly ...

What do you think of these new ecologically approved 'green' lawnmowers? Much quieter than the fossil fuel driven type, that's f...

One thing our recent confinement has made me do is notice more of the interesting things around me I take for granted...like these innoxiou...