Travelog: Me and our journey

Creux du Van. (c) rashidisaid Jika setiap hari mendaki sebuah gunung di Switzerland, tempoh setahun masih belum mencukupi untuk menakluki semua gunung di Switzerland. Mungkin 2 tahun atau lebih. Begitulah gambaran bilangan gunung di Switzerland. Terdapat kira-kira 450 buah gunung di seluruh Switzerland yang terletak di sebelah kiri Banjaran Jura dan di sebelah kanan Banjaran Alps. 450 gunung ini mencakupi kira-kira 2/3 bentuk muka bumi Switzerland. Di tengah-tengah pula terbentang luas bukit-bukau Switzerland. Itu belum masuk lagi kira-kira 7,000 buah tasik (103 darinya adalah tasik bersaiz besar). Nanti kita cerita tentang tasik dan gunung ini. Bagaimana gunung dan tasik ini menjadi daya tarikan pelancong dari seluruh dunia untuk aktiviti-aktiviti seperti mendaki, "jungle trekking", berbasikal (gunung dan jalanan), mengembara dengan motosikal, aktiviti ski dan lain-lain. Banjaran ini dikongsi oleh 8 buah negara Eropah: Perancis, Monaco, Switzerland, Itali, Liechtenstein,...

A ir dari glasier yang cair mengalir turun melalui sungai Hari ni sempena cuti Maal Hijrah (Selamat menyambut Maal Hijrah semua!), kitaorang ambil peluang hiking di Les Diablerets -- Creux de Champs di pergunungan Alps yang terletak di Canton Vaud. Tak berapa jauh dari rumah di Versoix kira-kita sejam dengan kereta. Creux de Champ adalah salah satu daripada tujuh keajaiban di Les Diablerets. Pada musim sejuk ia adalah sebuah resort ski tapi pada musim panas tak kurang pula cantiknya. Boleh je nak enjoy permandangan cantik. Kami meletakkan kenderaan di kawasan lapang bersebelahan dengan gelanggang tenis. Bermula dari Les Diablerets Tourist Office (i), kami ikuti jalan di sepanjang sungai ke Le Droutzay kemudian menuju ke hutan menuju Creux de Champ. Kira-kira 20 minit perjalanan, kemudian kami menyeberangi jambatan kecil dan aliran gunung untuk sampai ke jalan kaki yang lain. Kami terus menyusuri jalan hutan sehingga ke Van du Champs. Ketika menyusuri lorong-lorong kecil hutan d...

Summer break 2019 is coming but we have yet to finalize our vacation plan... initial plan was to visit either German or Italy. However, as we still can't use our personal car due to registration issue, we decided to focus on exploring Switzerland.  There are so many places we have not explored yet here.  One of the place is Interlaken, Off course, we have been before, but we really haven't explore it extensively.  There are so many attractions surrounding Interlaken and yet we only visited some places and limit ourselves with travelling with car. This time, we decided to spend four days in Interlaken and the surrounding Jungfrau region. Instead of driving around this region, we decided to take the train.  You can refer to this website for info on the travel pass within Jungfau region.(  https://jungfrauregion.swiss/en/summer/  ). You can buy either 3-day, 5-day and 8-day pass , and have access to most type of train; local train, mountain train, bus etc...

Winter is over now... however, it refused to let go the baton to Spring before a final showdown.  So at last, on 4th April 2019, winter delivers its final snow here in Geneva.  We are lucky as this is the first snow fall at La Vigie, we though we have to wait until next winter to view the snowfall here in our new home. Words cannot deliver the beauty of fresh snowfall early in the morning.  By noon, all the beauty slowly fades away. Enjoy the view. A bientot... ~ yatiseman `

As I mentioned in an earlier post, there are many Halal restaurants available in Geneve.  This is due to a very large Muslim community here be it expatriates, visitors or the local population.  In fact, if you walk anywhere in Geneve center, you will always encounter many Muslims especially women wearing Hijab.  Today, I will be sharing with you where to find Halal food ingredients (later I will share about restaurants).  Boucheries: for chicken (poulet), beef (beouf) and related products 1. Geneve centre Fresh products in Geneve is a little bit pricey as compared to those in France.  However, just in case, you need to buy in small portion, these places are available for you to find the products. (a) Kamel Halal Meat Sàrl , rue de Lausanne 55, 1202, Geneva , Switzerland Opening Hours:   Monday                  Tuesday                  ...

Looking for a house was a new experience for us.  During our previous posting here, we just took over the previous officer's home and we were lucky to have a duplex apartment with garden.  And now, we are going back to Geneve and there is no house yet as our predecessor has returned home for almost a year and the residence had to be released. Looking for new house means that we have to consider where do we want to stay; the right side or the left side of Lac Leman and this also determines where the kids will be going to school, the public transportation bla, bla... so many considerations. At last, received feedback from most of our colleagues that the traffic is horrendous crossing the bridge during peak hour times!! So off the checklists for beautiful places such as Cologny, Collonge Bellerive, Hermance etc. So far, we have visited 3 houses on the right side of the lake and all are marvelous (in fact one is a mansion to the boot). Map of Geneve, showing left and...