“I want to go there,” Erika said, pointing at a picture on her friend Celia’s Instagram feed. It was of a beautiful Alpine landscape, in Chamonix, France. And as simple as that, thus began the transformation of our Switzerland trip from a brief visit of Geneva and Zurich, into a two-week tour of the Alps along with those two cities. So much for getting out of Switzerland as cheaply as possible. I’m glad that transformation happened. Because, though it wasn’t…
Phase 3 of our trip began with about the most luxury we’ve had the entire trip: a 7-hour flight on Emirates Airlines to Geneva. Comfortable seating! Lunch! Cheese! Wine! Hundreds of movies! I’d always heard that Emirates is one of the nicest airlines in the world, but it really lives up to it. Three movies later—including finally catching Avengers: Infinity War (my take? A good Guardians of the Galaxy movie mixed with a less good Iron Man movie mixed with…
