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"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet" - William Shakespeare in Romeo and Juliet. I come from a family of Roses. My mother’s...

I don’t recall seeing a wisteria growing up in the Philippines, although now I can see that they do grow in the tropics but not that...

Of the genus Paeonia. The name goes back to the Greek physician Paian, who is said to have healed the wounded god of the dead Hades,...

Switzerland’s Cresta Run is a natural ice toboggan run first built in the winter of 1884/5. It is built from scratch every year with...

I will come to grips with the terminology. SLED (American) and SLEDGE (British) are both from the Dutch sleedse. While TOBOGGAN is from...

That's right. The Ski Mom - the Swiss equivalent of a Soccer Mom. Having been a Soccer Mom before moving to Switzerland 3 years ago,...

St. Moritz (photo 1) in Engadine in the canton of Graubünden is 2-1/2 hours southeast of Zürich. It has a reputation of being a...

Men in tights. A bit of shock the first time you see it on stage. First, the tights tend to be white in classical ballet. Then white...

The Prix de Lausanne was founded in 1973 by Swiss Industrialist Philippe Braunschweig and his ballet dancer wife Elvire. The annual Prix...

I moved to Switzerland in 2012. That was their coldest winter in 30years. It started snowing in October. Even P was caught unprepared...

My son M has 2 Balinese cats. He was promised rabbits when we moved to Switzerland. The back corner of the house next to the trampoline...

I read some of the British papers and it’s always dire news when they have snow. I guess they never used to get so much, not enough...

Snow is late this year. Usually it’s possible to ski by Christmas. Not in 2022. People were skiing on narrow strips of artificial snow...

I walk more in December than in the other months because I love looking at Christmas decorations. When I was living in Hongkong, the...