It has been a little too quiet here on Home Schwiiz Home for the last month. Even though I returned to Zürich on Thursday, April 20th, a whirlwind of unpacking, guests, and repacking for a week in Italy has kept me away from here. Read more →
Last Friday evening Martin and I drove with several of his hammer throwing friends down to Tenero, a small town on Lago Maggiore in Ticino (Italian-speaking Switzerland). Tenero is home to one of Switzerland’s national sports training centers, the Centro Sportivo Tenero, which was hosting a small hammer-throwing conference sponsored by the Swiss Federation. I was a bit car sick on the drive down so I slept through my first trip thorugh the St. Gotthard auto tunnel going underneath the Alps to Ticino. Read more →