October 2019 A fun time and great food was had by all who attended our October Round Table at this new venue. We have been here before for a Bowling and Pizza evening and this time most of us did just that, as they do a special offer on Monday and Thursday evenings. At Round […]
29th September 3 guests joined us this month for our scrumptious monthly English breakfast in Sierre. Deborah Gorsatt 30th June 2019 This event is now very popular with Romandie East BRA Members as well as Members from other BRA regions. We also had a few new faces and visitors who join us this month. 🙂 […]
One of our members reserved one of the terraces overlooking the garden of the Grand Hotel Villa Castagnola for our first get together of the autumn, after the summer break. It was a perfect day, sunny and warm without any wind and the seventeen of us were comfortably seated on the smallest of their private […]
The Eisweiher Hut in Riehen once again provided the venue for this traditional event. Statistics now show that out of the last 20 years it has only rained once. And again, we picked a perfect day, glorious sunshine with a breeze to keep temperatures bearable. Green fields all around and plenty of storks feeding not […]
August 2019 For this first meet up at LUIGIA – Sion, a restaurant with a typical Italian atmosphere; noisy, full of life and people queuing outside to get a table, we were presently surprised by the friendly service and great food. 🙂 Deborah Gorsatt
We were a group of nine who drove up through the shady forest to the village of Saint-George, at 944 m up in the hills, north of Nyon. It was a very hot and sunny day, but up in the quiet Jura, the air was a bit cooler and not stifling like down near the […]
We had beautiful weather for the whole of the Jazz weekend in Lenk, not too hot and no rain. Everyone arrived in time for the warm welcome by Miriam the hotel manager, where we were served drinks and introduced to “Antonio” our waiter for the weekend. We then went through to the restaurant to have […]
At the last minute we had to change the date from Tuesday 9 July to Thursday 11 July, nevertheless twelve old, new and prospective members plus two dogs could enjoy a jolly lunch together. Weather a bit too cold to sit outside. Most of us enjoyed the delicious Fish and Chips, served on a strip […]
We set off in a holiday mood, boarding our boat at Lugano Giardino, heading across the Ceresio for the Cantina di Gandria. There we could picnic on the edge of the lake, which was popular with the children who were comfortably dressed for the weather in their bathing costumes and clearly enjoying dipping their toes […]
Eleven members celebrated the Queen’s birthday on 26th June in Neuchâtel. In spite of the sweltering heat, the gardens at the Hotel du Peyrou were an oasis of peace and cool breezes, and we enjoyed Craig Penlington’s delicious snacks in the shade of the trees. By the way, he assured us that the Christmas puddings have […]