Travel

OK, the longer I go without updating the blog, the harder it’s getting. So much is going on….

Let’s see… Where did we leave off? Zurich…

Lady’s First was the name of our hotel in Zurich.

Lake Zurich

After spending a few days in Menziken, we went to Zurich to do some workshops. We did a teachers’ workshop on Friday, and a public workshop on Saturday at Planet Yoga. They both went really well; we got to meet a lot of local teachers and students. We are already looking forward to going back.

On Saturday, we went to Jeff Fisher & his wife Daniela’s house for a barbecue in their back yard; such good place and even better company. We must have had about 3-4 bottles of wine, tons of food and chocolate, lots of good conversation…

On Sunday we went to Zug for another workshop at Stefanie’s mom’s studio.

Zug workshop

Sabine

Klaus

Handstand tower

Monday was our day off. We started with a great breakfast at the hotel with lots of cheeses, breads, jams, juices, and yummy cereals.

Breakfast at Lady's First

Then we went to the park by Lake Zurich and did a practice.

Handstand

Chris in a one-arm-handstand

After the practice we went for a walk around the city, swam in the lake, had some great Italian food and packed for the flight the next morning.

It’s been interesting living out of two bags, being on the “go” non-stop and waking up in a different place every few days. We are now in Paris, teaching some regular classes and just generally hanging out before we head out to Istanbul next Monday.

More about Paris later…

It’s only been three days and there is a lot to write about…

I am now on my computer sipping some coffee with this view right in front of me:

Not bad, eh?

We are in a small town called Menziken in Switzerland, staying with Stefanie‘s dad.

But before we got here, this was our schedule:

When I was looking for ticket from Vancouver to Zurich, I found out that if you fly out of Seattle instead of Vancouver, you pay about half the price. So I thought it would be a good opportunity to go to Seattle and meet the Anusara community there as well and bought the tickets.

We left Vancouver on Monday about 12pm with Amy; she was already going to Seattle and she offered to give us a ride. It was a pretty smooth & fast drive except for the 1 hour wait at the border. Everyone was driving to Seattle for some reason! We were chatting around, listening to Johnny Cash and enjoying the summer breeze on our faces.

We had booked the Westin in Seattle, and let me tell you; not a good choice at all! The hotel was very old and the room wasn’t clean at all. There was even trash on the floor! It was terrible. We left the bags, started walking around looking for this organic restaurant that was supposed to be at a hotel. When we found the restaurant it was at Hyatt Olive (not to be confused with the other Hyatt in Seattle), Chris went and checked the rooms while I was on the phone with AT&T adding a bigger international data plan on my phone and he said the rooms were about 200 times nicer.

So we checked into that hotel, went back to pick up our stuff from the Westin (they did say they would refund our money, which was nice), and dropped them off at our new LEED certified hotel! They even had a yoga room! Exciting.

We then went downstairs for some snacks.

Chris at Urbane

We then headed out to teach at Village Green Yoga in Issaquah.

Anusara Inspired teacher Jean owns the place and she was our host. We had a really good time.

After the class we were really hungry and went back to Urbane for some dinner, then straight to bed.

Our flight on Tuesday morning left at 8 am. We got up at 5 and headed to the airport.

After a long day of flights from Seattle to Toronto, then Toronto to Zurich, we are in paradise! Look at the carts at the airport:

And I thought I ate a lot of chocolate! =)

We picked up Stefanie’s mom’s car from the airport, drove to Luzern, which was beautiful, then to another smaller town called Menzike.

We had a practice, long fast walk, then went for some Italian food near by. Here are some more photos:

Garfield 3