Switzerland Travel Blogs

We are headed home
Mar 7, 2006 (2 photos)

4 am came early. Really early. We tried to be as quiet as possible. Well everyone but Christina. Heather took the key to the room when she headed down with her luggage. The lights were on a timer connected to key so when the lights went out, Christina at ...

Rothenburg - Bavaria
Jan 23, 2004 (70 photos)

Hello everybody, The Romantic Road is an old trading route right through the heart of Bavaria. Along the way is a string of medieval walled towns. Timbered houses. Cobblestone streets. And original gates through which cars drive today. I thought ...

Zurich by day, Lugano by night...
Jun 10, 2008 (7 photos)

... brief relaxation and catch up at their apartment we are heading down to the local bar to catch the Euro games, which featured a Switzerland home game making for yet another lively crowd.  Somehow, we wind up playing kings at the bar and end the night ...

France and Switzerland
May 10, 2004 (11 photos)

... 4 floors. It was all quite nondescript. Apparently there are many of these "factories" throughout this area of Switzerland - where the art of watchmaking is still appreciated. After visiting the factory and the museum at Chateau des Monts we ...

Gryon
Aug 6, 2007

Gryon est perché sur une montagne, entre Bex et Villars. Oncle Alain m'a appris que Villars est la place de prédilection de notre Jacques Villeuneuve. C'est de toute beauté!!!!! Mon auberge est un vrai chalet Suisse! Le plancher craque, les murs sont ...

Swiss Family Tuckwell
Jul 9, 2006 (4 photos)

... not, thou bigger cities, Geneva or Zurich 2) There is not an all incorporating language of SWISS. Of which region of Switzerland you reside decides your spoken word. German, French and Italian dialects are spoken and a 4th Romange on a smaller scale 3) ...

Authentic Swiss Country Girl
Nov 20, 2006 (3 photos)

Hi So on our last day in Turkey we went shopping in Istanbul. I love shopping in Turkey as it is fun to see how the price drops as you go to leave. We bought a blanket that is close to King size and very decorative. When Andrew asked the price he was ...

Oncle
Aug 9, 2007

Je suis chez oncle Alain depuis maintenant 2 jours. Il pleut encore et encore. Je suis allé visiter la mine de sel de Bex. Intéressant! J'ai ma chambre a moi tout seul!!! hummmm!! Oncle Alain et tante Élisabeth ont été très hospitalisés, je les en remercie ...

Yet more old haunts, sorry, friends
Jun 4, 2007 (3 photos)

Paul and Toni-Rae have the most amazing apartment looking over Lake Geneva.   Spend the weekend with them eating lots and wandering around Geneva, the port and visit some old town up the lake with a castle that I can't recall now.  ...

Eb's in Zürich!
Jun 2, 2007

... I set about trying to find a phone to finally call home to say I was okay... Thus began my slow haemorraging of money that only Switzerland can bring. But more of that later. For now, my time at the net café is almost over, so I must bid you adieu til ...

Top of Europe
Sep 16, 2006 (95 photos)

... that wasn't too overpriced and split an order of fondue. And with that checked off the list, Adrian and I were content with our time in Switzerland and escaped with our bank accounts intact. That would last only as long as our next stop -- Munich.

Délire émotif intense
Aug 5, 2007

Quelle journée parfaite!! Après une nuit aussi parfaite qu'un dortoir de 6 personnes le permet, je fais la connaissance de Jerry, le type à la réception. Jerry est un Suisse-Allemand qui parle parfaitement français.Malgré mon anglais rendu très "fluent" et l' ...

Waterfalls everywhere and the alpine hike of death
Jun 10, 2007 (26 photos)

(S) Most of you will say "how the hell did you end up in a tiny little town called Gimmelwald on the top of a mountain?" Well, actually, we ended up in Lauterbrunnen at a nice little campground (which would have been a nice place to camp had we not been ...

Bern
Dec 21, 2007 (5 photos)

Bern, Switzerland

Lucerne not Lausanne
Jul 23, 2007 (15 photos)

Monday 16th July - Thursday 19th July Pete is going to have a break from writing this blog, he reckons he's got writers block plus holiday head so it's up to me to keep the blog going. After visiting the city in Lausanne with drove north to Lucerne ...

Luxurious Lachen...
Mar 29, 2008

So my standards have yet moved a few notches lower and I now consider myself content to stay in places that are not leaking, and are indoors.  Previously, I was looking for beds a bit softer than granite, toilet paper, hot water...or really running ...

Lugano Shenanigans
Jun 11, 2008 (3 photos)

... a lot of people from all walks of life... local celebrity comes to mind as a way of describing their lives in Switzerland! Lugano is a quaint town of maybe 100,000 high in the Alps with spectacular views across Lake Lugano and the surrounding mountains ...

Les chiffres
Aug 10, 2007

Quarante, cinquante, soixante, soixante-dix, quatre-vingt, quatre-vingt-dix... ??! Y'en a qui se sont déjà demandé pourquoi après soixante les chiffres cessaient d'avoir leur propre nom??? Quand on y pense ça fait un peu "orto"!! Comme si on avait été à court d' ...

Chilling in Bern
Oct 21, 2006

... of Prague in seven days - for us to meet back in Rome in a week or so. First stop for this random tour of Switzerland was Bern. What a brilliant couple of days, a beautiful city, great food and an absolute pleasure to not be staying in a hostel. Massive ...

Zurich, Switzerland
Apr 20, 2008 (7 photos)

... will find my stock of written addressed postcards and pay to put them in the mail. But there's a greater chance of Switzerland entering the Iraq war. From the Swiss town of Sargans, I took a bus to the Liechtenstein capital of Vaduz. Liechtenstein is ...

Zurich - Day 126
Jun 28, 2008

... by the river so the residents can bath, and there are steps into the river at various points. Beginning to like Switzerland. My friends sister's boyfriend's birthday party this evening (sorry about the mouth full). So went to their house for some ...

An unexpected snow storm
Mar 31, 2004 (4 photos)

... beds. On the way up to Engelburg we stopped in the lovely little town of Lucerne, which is the geographical heart of Switzerland. It was freezing and rainy so we headed into a Picasso museum for some warmth as well as some art! Lucerne is famous ...

Still here!
Jan 9, 2008 (10 photos)

Yes, we know, it has been forever since our last post. It was a rather busy holiday season working up on the ski hill. We have been working about 10 hours a day for the last 3 weeks without a day off. Megan has been serving the rich barons overpriced food ...

Maderanerthal Region (Swiss Alps) - Day 127-128
Jun 29, 2008 (19 photos)

Day 127 - 28/06/08 A train and a few buses today to reach Golzern which is a small village in the beautiful snow capped Swiss Alps. The transport system is amazing here, completely integrated, so when you get off the train the bus is waiting to take ...

Zurich - Day 129
Jul 1, 2008

Nothing interesting to tell today, posted 8kg of stuff home, mostly purchases from Vietnam and some other odds and ends which I no longer needed to haul around with me. Went out for dinner in the evening to an Asian restaurant. Getting my body re- ...

Time to Skydive over the Alps
Oct 22, 2006 (11 photos)

Trains in Switzerland are simply amazing. To glide through the countryside with snow capped mountains rising from massive blue lakes and lush green fields makes even a train bound for nowhere an absolute pleasure. Well guys look at this space tomorrow ...

On a High
Aug 26, 2007 (12 photos)

... Jungfrau, Switzerland · GMT +1:00 hour Anyone who has not seen the scenery which surrounds Interlaken does not know Switzerland - Felix Mendelssohn Efficiency Personified So we headed, bags on back, to Bern train station where we set about getting ...

Gryon part deux
Nov 18, 2007 (9 photos)

Hello again from the Alps!   We have had a great time over the last couple weeks.  We have made some great friends here and have had some fun times.  We even went rock climbing!  Megan was like a little spider monkey scooting up the ...

Lovely Lausanne
Jun 7, 2007

Drive up the lake to see Dave's Aunt Rosie for a few days.  She also has a great flat overlooking the old part of the city.  Enjoy the nice weather exploring the town, nearby Gruyere and other towns and food and wine.  Also visit their ...

Cheese, cheese and cows
Jun 12, 2007

... to see her again and discuss travelling - she has just done the Dragoman Columbia/Venezuela trip we did and we swopped notes. Left Switzerland in the rain and heading northish to Belgium staying overnight in some southern Belgium town which was nice.