After three fantastic years in Switzerland, we have returned to Indianapolis. We have memories that will last our lifetime, experiences that we'll always appreciate, and we saw places that we'll never forget. We did everything we could to take advantage of this once in a life time opportunity.
Thanks to all of you for visiting this web page more than 4,000 times in the last three years. Our final entry is a short video summary that we hope you enjoy.
Robert & Nancy's Swiss Adventure
Saturday, November 29, 2008
Monday, November 17, 2008
Garmisch - Partenkirchen Germany
Sunday, November 09, 2008
Turin, Italy
Lausanne-Geneva, Switzerland
This week Nancy was asked to give a speech to the Swiss national chapter of PMI (Project Management Institute) about IT Project Management at Roche. This was a great opportunity and it turned out to be very successful, but it also had the bigger bonus of being held in Lausanne. Lausanne is 2+ hrs from Basel so instead of driving home very late, Robert joined me and we took Friday off to visit Lausanne and Geneva since we were in the area. We visited the old town in each city and had a great time just hanging out. See pictures of Geneva and Lausanne here.
Saturday, November 01, 2008
Happy Birthday Robert - AGAIN!
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Bellinzona, Switzerland (Day 9)
Locarno Switzerland (Day 8)
San Gimignano/Verona Italy (Day 7)
Assisi/Siena Italy (Day 6)
Today we journeyed to Assisi, the home of the famed St. Francis. It's a lovely walled town filled with tourist and monks in traditional robes. We were able to enjoy the basilica with all of it's famed frescoes by Giotto (among others) which led the art world into its most famous period of art period: Italian Renaissance. Just down the road a piece is Siena with its terrific town square (Piazza del Campo) which includes the Fountain of Joy (Fonte Gaia). A dangerous horse race is held in the square twice a year, but we were able to enjoy some nice shopping streets and other ancient buildings before our parking meter expired. See the great pictures of Assisi and Siena.
Robert Turns 40
Alberobello/Tivoli Italy (Day 5)
Croatia/Montenegro (Day 4)
Croatia (Day 3)
Croatia (Day 2)
Dolamiti, Italy (Day 1)
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Trier/Wierschem, Germany
Sunday, October 05, 2008
Alsace, France
Alsace, the region of France that is right over the border and stretches north of Strasbourg, is world famous for its wine and vineyards. It's grape harvesting time so we thought we'd take in the area just north of Colmar that has a nice walking path Sentier Viticole des Grand Crus. We walked through several small towns: Mittelwihr, Bennwihr, Beblenheim, Zellenberg, but Riquewihr was a tourist's dream. A walled medieval city undamaged by the war with tons of great old buildings and lots of shops, restaurants and bakeries all open for business on Sunday! We could tell we were in for a treat as soon as we saw the line of buses outside the city wall. In between the cities are field after field of beautiful grape vineyards to enjoy, especially on a mild, sunny, autumn day. Some of the wine from this area include: Sporen, Schoenenbourg, Rosacker, Sonnenglanz, Mandelberg. See the pictures here.
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