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Last night I finished watching ‘Long Way Round‘, the Ewan McGregor & Charley Boorman TV series that documented their motorcycle trip around the world. It’s an inspiring story and interesting to see how the two of them maintained their friendship and sense of adventure during the most demanding times. One would expect problems on such [...]

Last week was great. A fortunate coincidence brought many good friends to St. Gallen whom I hadn’t seen for a long time. The week was full of drinking beer and catching up on times. We all got together one night and visited Baracca and Tankstell which are two bars we used to frequent. It was [...]

It was fun weekend in the sun. On Saturday morning I joined friends for a snowshoe hike from Klewenalp to the Brisenhaus SAC hut. We were above the fog line and this provided a gorgeous and unique view over the alps. We overnighted at the hut and continued the next day to Niederrickenbach. The hike [...]

I’ve been daydreaming about the summer bike tour and I’m wondering if six days will be enough. I remember meeting a cyclist in Iceland who was cycling around the island for two months. ‘Wow!’ I thought, ‘I should do that!’ Then recently a friend showed me the online journal of somebody who cycled from Florida [...]