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The Swiss Family Carlson goes to Appenzell!
This is part one of a two-part post about our trip to Appenzell, St. Gallen, and Liechtenstein. Welcome to Part 1: Appenzell and the Hiking Trail of Doom. Actually, we almost canceled this trip. We were trying to take advantage of the kids’ Ascension of Jesus 4-day holiday weekend, however, the weather was promising a…
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The Swiss Family Carlson visits Rheinfelden
There are numerous other towns between Basel and Zurich in Switzerland located along the Rhein and its tributaries. On Mother’s Day, we went to one of these little towns; the creatively named Rheinfelden. In fact, you can boat up the Rhein into the North Sea from Rheinfelden! Right across the river is Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany. And,…
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SFC Parents and A Restaurant Batman Would Love
(or Bruce Wayne would own…. I haven’t quite figured it out yet.) We don’t just “go out” to eat here very often. Usually we only eat out while we are traveling or we treat ourselves at the BIS’s Sports Club, a country club kind of place that the BIS owns for its employees. However, we…
