Have a few pictures I took when running around Lucerne today.
Snow and ice bearing down
There’s a line of storms from France to Germany heading this direction. In front of it, temps in the low 50’s. Behind it, high 30s. Forecast says the weather will follow us to Interlaken tomorrow. Thankfully, we’ve seen what we planned to in Lucerne. That included: Altstadt, the Old Town, with plenty of interesting architecture…
Lucerne
Paris may be the City of Light, but I think Lucerne May be the City of Song. During a 30-minute after-dinner stroll across a couple of bridges, we heard no less than three different pairs of people spontaneously break out into song. And only one of the three pairs were obviously drunk.
I could get used to this
Business class–sorry, “Club World,”–is definitely the way to go if you can get it. We run all our purchases through one credit card that gives points and cash in the points for money to use on seat upgrades to whatever the Premium Economy equivalent is on whatever airline we fly, but this time when I…
Strung Out doesn’t begin to describe it
This isn’t going to be particularly funny or interesting. I’m only writing it to square things in my mind. All times local. London is Central Standard +6, Zurich is +7. Nov 9 13:30 – Picked up early by Super Shuttle. No text letting us know they were near. Scrambling to make sure we got everything….
And a delay
Our flight to London was delayed by an hour so we missed our connection to Zürich. They rebooked us on a later flight, which means the challenge is now to stay awake for three more hours in Heathrow. And we did indeed end up in business class, in sears that lay down flat, so I…
On our way!
Hello from the British Airways seekrit departure lounge, an amenity we’re entitled to on the way out but not the way back, because I managed—I have no idea how—to score an upgrade to business class on the flight out. We should be in those seats that fold all the way down into beds, and seated…
Better than Kobe: Takayama Japan, 2015
In the last post but one, where we attended the cooking class in Kyoto that featured Kobe beef, we teased that the Kobe was not the tastiest beef we had in Japan. And in fact, we had tastier beef two days later, in Takayama.
Our worst meal in Japan, 2015
(Finishing up a few remaining posts before we start our next trip.) On my first visit to Japan, with a friend, we had the best meal of the trip and the worst meal of the trip within 24 hours of each other. We’d gone to Koya-san, the temple complex, and stayed in a temple for…
Cooking class in Kyoto, January 2015
(Resurrecting a post that’s been sitting in the Drafts folder for almost 2 years now, and testing a new crossposting plugin at the same time.) We are not social people. Well, okay, we’re selectively social. We have our groups of friends that we see now and then, but we don’t generally seek out new acquaintances….