love_travel_Aus

Hi annhig,

Sorry to hear about all of your challenges and sending the very best of wishes for improving morale and lots of sunshine if that happens near you at this time of year.

I have been following this report and your other threads and send good wishes from way down here in South Australia.
Being able to to enjoy that gorgeous time in Switzerland is fantastic: I love the mountains and walking up there etc. Perhaps it is because I come from a pretty flat country
We have used the mountains in Switzerland and more recently the Dolomites as our refreshment time as our young (31) daughter faced the challenges of bowel cancer - albeit now with a good prognosis thankfully.

So keep looking at those pics: yes we do tend to take similar ones as we couples grow older together!

Your part of the world is still on our wish list...

All the best.

FuryFluffy

Hi annhig, I hope your husband will recover soon. At least, it's good to have you in charge of his morale!
Looking back at your trip together in the Alpine Switzerland (my favorite landscape in the world) could certainly be good for his health/moral. I'd go back there in a wimp.

swandav2000

Oh dear. I am do sad to hear of this setback for your dh, annhig. I hope and pray he will gain strength and health soon!

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5alive

Annhig, lovely trip report.

So glad you went and that your husband enjoyed it. Travel is good for the spirit. Even if we aren't still 20 with a backpack.

Paqngo

Hi Annhig,

Hope you got to take DH out for some air. Pictures and memories are such a good morale boost. Wishing the best for you both.

annhig

<<Looking forward to reading more about your trip when you have time, energy and inclination. Although, hmmm, did that Sicily report ever get finished???>>

sorry, Leely, I just checked and we seem to be stuck in Ragusa, which would be a great place to be stuck IRL, but is only half way round the trip. Sorry. You'd think that being newly retired I'd have a lot of time on my hands but life, as you have seen, has a habit of intervening and disrupting the most organised of people [which I most definitely am not].

Thank you and everyone else for your good wishes - DH feels a lot better but we need a plan for getting him home, which we don't yet have.

Love_travel_Aus - I'm sorry to read about your DD's cancer but thank goodness for her prognosis. Best wishes to her for a full recovery.

Normal service here will be resumed as soon as possible.

Micheline

Hi annhig, I always love your trip reports and this one brought back many happy memories. I'm so happy to hear your DH is feeling better. I'm drinking my morning coffee in the den as my poor DH can't have any because he's having back surgery today.
Lol! I was a little confused when I read your last post saying you were stuck in Ragusa! But read it twice and clued in.

annhig

Micheline - I hope that your DH's op goes well. DH was told last Friday that he'd be having his op at 11am on Sat so he was Nil by Mouth from midnight; he eventually went down for the op at 6pm. I hope he has no such problems.

sorry about the confusion about my present location - re-reading my post I can see that it wasn't crystal clear.

Micheline

Thank you Ann. Your post was clear. I was just reading through it too fast.

starrs

Just saw this thread. About to follow along, belatedly.

annhig

hi starrs,

nice to have you jumping aboard, however belatedly.

not sure when I'll be able to finish the TR though, so you'll have plenty of time to catch up.

stokebailey

I'm getting caught up. I've always admired your traveling style; now so much admire the way you've adapted it to Mr. Hig's easy-does-it.

tomarkot

Annhig, this is a belated response to your wonderful report of your Switzerland trip. We just returned from a few weeks in Italy, and have kinda fallen behind.

We really enjoyed your TR. So many of your experiences reminded us of ours in 2015. We admired how you really took the lead and provided a wonderful trip to enjoy with your husband.

We're sorry to read in some more recent posts that your husband hasn't been feeling well. We hope that, by now, he is doing better.

Thanks again for sharing your experiences in beautiful Switzerland!

annhig

thank you so much for topping this thread, tomarkot, and for your kind words. looking back, i see that we are stuck in Wengen [a pretty good place to be stuck, mind you,] so I must try to get us to our next and last stop, which was Lucerne. I just hope that I don't take too long about it.

Adelaidean

Ann, while you are 'stuck' in Wengen you might like to wander through my photos (only got my TR done because I rarely sleep well on holidays), we enjoyed many of the same places, not always in the rain
Sending good wishes to your husband, too.

Nelson

Ann, also late to the party here, but just read through this enjoyable report including the fine print, since you are a lawyer.

Add me to the list of people involved in blag bag confusion at the luggage carousel. Mine was once taken by someone else upon arrival in Singapore. The airline delivered it to my hotel the next day.

I will never try to pronounce "Eierschwämmlisuppe" unless tutored, but I Googled some recipes and it sounds delicious. Google's translations were all over the place, but I got the idea. Will look for it on menus if I make it back to Switzerland, which I hope to.

That whole region sounds wonderful.

Also, best regards to your husband, hope there has been improvement after the op.