It was at the end of another locum placement high in the Swiss mountains, when Joana, one of the nurses, entered the consulting room. There would be the euthanasia of an old Husky and the owners were asking, if I would mind coming to their farm to put their dog to sleep…. “Of course, I …
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Wedged between two emperors
The weather forecast had been too good and with no other commitments that day, I had grabbed my hiking gear, had jumped into my beaten-up BMW and taken the motorway heading south….. With the border to Tyrol just a few kilometres away, what beckoned was the massif of the two emperors – the …
Six-hundred meters to a Swiss Rösti
Recalling an epic noctural hike in the Swiss Alps to get a genuine “Rösti” on an exposed mountain cabin
