I have so many little matters to tell you of, that I cannot wait any longer before I begin to put them down.
Posted in Switzerland on Jun 22nd, 2012
I finally found our pictures from the first half of our trip. So here’s a second installment of Swiss food pictures! This salad had warm goat cheese in a rolled cracker. Super good. This was duck. I ate some of it. Mostly because I didn’t want to be as picky as a couple of the […]
Posted in Switzerland on May 18th, 2012
My photography class last month supposedly prepared me to do a bit of food photography. As you can see, though, I had so many different lighting situations that I felt like I was starting from scratch every time I took a manual picture of food. I tried to photograph our plates every time we went […]
Posted in Switzerland on May 17th, 2012
We made it home to Columbia on Tuesday after 21 straight hours of travel, woke up yesterday at 4 am, and drove up to Detroit in time for dinner last night. Other than Elizabeth getting carsick in Marshall, IL, and having to hang out for two hours at a McDonalds while Derek visited a laundromat […]
Posted in Switzerland on May 16th, 2012
On Sunday, we trained up to Geneva for a group tour day. We walked around the Old Town, visited the Reformation Monument, St Peter’s Cathedral, and Reformation Museum. Then Derek and I split off to go see the famous flower clock and walk along the lakeside.
Posted in Switzerland on May 15th, 2012
On Saturday, we took a paddleboat ferry (the one below) across Lake Geneva to Chateau de Chillon, the castle made famous by Lord Byron’s “Prisoner of Chillon.” The misty rain was rather Byronic, too. The castle was a stronghold of the Savoys, complete with dungeons for political prisoners. During the wars of the Reformation, a […]
Posted in Switzerland on May 14th, 2012
After our trip to the chocolate factory on Friday, we took a couple regional trains over to Gruyères, where they make Gruyères cheese! It was such a beautiful journey–green fields with cows, beautiful views of the Alps in every direction, small towns that made you feel like you were seeing the authentic Swiss countryside, and a charming […]
Posted in Switzerland on May 11th, 2012
We were out for 9 hours and took about 100 pictures today, but it’s almost midnight, so I’ll just do a quick overview of our tour of the Callier (division of Nestle) chocolate factory. We snuck out before lunch and booked it to the train station to take the 1.5 hour, 3-train trip out to Broc, […]
Posted in Switzerland on May 10th, 2012
Busy day today! Mary, the program director here, happens to be personal friends with one of the big executives at Nestle Global HQ, so some of us went over there this afternoon for a personal tour with him and a Pepperdine grad who now works there. Nestle has over 10,000 products sold in 130 countries. […]
Posted in Switzerland on May 9th, 2012
We’re slowly adjusting to the time change! Yesterday afternoon, we explored more of the city, and this morning, the other spouses and I did a tour of a wealthy home overlooking the city which was turned into an art museum (fairly unremarkable except for a handful of Degas dancers) while the faculty shared vocational journeys (yes, I […]
Posted in Switzerland on May 8th, 2012
After an uncomfortable 8 hour flight in which Derek slept some and I not at all, we arrived in Geneva this morning. We quickly found the train to Lausanne, took a quick 10 minute walk from the train station, and are here at Pepperdine House, waiting for the rest of the participants to arrive this […]