Category: The Swiss Family Carlson
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The Swiss Family Carlson go to Pisa!
Yay! Italy! And I get to check another country off my list! At the beginning of the summer Mark came home and said, “Hey! I had a paper accepted to a conference in Pisa!” I looked up from my iPad and said, “When are we going?” Events were set for the beginning of September and…
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The Swiss Family Carlson heads to Strasbourg
The next day we decided to fulfill another of Mom and Dad’s requests: a trip to Strasbourg, France. Strasbourg is in the Alsace region. It’s the region right on the border of France and Germany that has been traded back and forth during different wars and is currently with France. If the name of Strasbourg…
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Boating the Rhein and Birthdays
One of the more awesome (meaning both “excellent” and “some to be awed by”) things about living in Switzerland is that you can, on a whim, jump onto a train, go north an hour, and be in picturesque areas in either France or Germany. It takes slightly longer to get to Austria, Italy, the Czech…
Mindy Carlson 