It’s been almost two full months of receiving your #LTSwissTips and, after careful consideration and a lot of red wine, we’ve finally decided on a winner. Drumroll please… While in Switzerland, we will: Braid our hair, Heidi-style, and drink Swiss Miss in front of a snowy mountaintop, courtesy of Ms. Lola from Where in the World is Lola! Lola’s Swiss Tip  has earned her a special gift straight from Switzerland, courtesy of The Lazy Travelers. LUCKY! Because we got so many phenomenal recommendations (and because there’s a chance that we’ll drink a few too many bottles of wine and convince each…

Why yes, this is another packing post. Another necessary packing post. Welcome to my lil list of Switzerland packing essentials. Maybe it’s less necessary for you and more necessary for my sanity, but either way, it’s happening. As the wino pointed out yesterday, packing is not our forte… so we are making a conscious effort to turn that around for this trip! The wino blames our advanced planning on the dropping temperatures in and around Geneva. I blame the fact that we now show our faces around here and I want to look cute for you people. Ahh, vanity, you…

HEAR, HEAR: we’re officially ONE WEEK AWAY from our 2012 Lazy Travelers European Shenanigans Tour. I think we’ll call it that from now on. Normally, I’m a throw-a-few-too-many-outfits-in-a-bag-and-go kind of traveler. But, as I’ve been watching the temperatures drop dramatically in Switzerland over the last week, I’m getting a little concerned that my normal packing routine will leave me unprepared, and no one likes a cranky wino. Instead, I’ve been spending every spare moment considering what I’ll need for the trip, and more importantly, what will fit in my backpack. So far, I’ve narrowed it down to nine things I…