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Pauline replied to the thread Lenk and Gstaad, June 2025.I Googled ticks in the Swiss Alps and it says yes there are ticks but not above 1500 meters. Lenk is at 1000 meters, so ticks are... -
Pauline replied to the thread Lenk and Gstaad, June 2025.We stayed in Locarno (near Lugano) years ago and took a bus back into the mountains to small villages. They were pretty remote. I...
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Beautiful! I went to Lugano for two summers in a row, including last July. They don't have the small mountain villages like the ones...
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Pauline replied to the thread Lenk and Gstaad, June 2025.After that first glitch with all the construction near the apartment this was an excellent holiday. We liked the places we stayed in. We...
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Pauline replied to the thread Lenk and Gstaad, June 2025.Bollywood in Saanen There are a lot of tourists from India because this area has featured in several Bollywood films. The tourist office...
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Pauline replied to the thread Lenk and Gstaad, June 2025.River Walks in Gstaad/Saanen River walks are good because they are usually pretty flat and can be in shade. We walked from Saanen almost...
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I also enjoyed this account of what must have been a very meaningful "homecoming." Your photo of the Trnava cafe truly is spectacular...
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Pauline replied to the thread Slovakia June 2025.Thanks so much for writing this! I wanted to hear about this trip.
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It was a really great experience! We found people to be so friendly and helpful, and the place is so clean (especially compared to...
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Our last day we drove west and stopped in Trnava, north of the capital of Bratislava. Again, a charming walled medieval town with a...
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We had previously planned to go back to Vienna to spend 2 nights before flying back to Italy but decided to cancel our stay in Vienna...
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Our third day we drove into the mountains to visit my ancestral town of Svedlar. My ancestors were Carpathian Germans who settled in the...
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We then headed north and east along the northern edge of the country passing near the Tatar mountains – very impressive. The countryside...
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We traveled to Slovakia to visit my paternal ancestral town at the beginning of June, spending 5 days and 4 nights in the country...
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Pauline replied to the thread Lenk and Gstaad, June 2025.Panoramaweg We were going to walk the Panoramaweg from Saanenmoser to Gstaad, as we did last year, but we got rained out and instead...
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