Switzerland Travel Blogs

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 ...

A travel blog entry from Zurich by coryandlaura
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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 ...

A travel blog entry from Rothenburg by eric
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... 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 ...

A travel blog entry from Zurich by madman96
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... 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 ...

A travel blog entry from Neuchatel Switzerland and Colmar by chronometers
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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 ...

A travel blog entry from Gryon by jelg
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... 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) ...

A travel blog entry from Jona by foolsgold
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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 ...

A travel blog entry from Zurich by janda
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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 ...

A travel blog entry from Pully by jelg
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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.  ...

A travel blog entry from Geneva by emanddave
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... 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 ...

A travel blog entry from Zurich by elsewhere
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... 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.

A travel blog entry from Interlaken by danblank
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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' ...

A travel blog entry from Zermatt by jelg
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(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 ...

A travel blog entry from Gimmelwald by gr8escape
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Bern, Switzerland

A travel blog entry from Bern by yah27
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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 ...

A travel blog entry from Lucerne by peteandmandy
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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 ...

A travel blog entry from Lachen by tracystravels
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... 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 ...

A travel blog entry from Zurich by christosp
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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 ...

A travel blog entry from Gryon by meganandkevin
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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 ...

A travel blog entry from Gryon by meganandkevin
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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 ...

A travel blog entry from Golzern by christosp
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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- ...

A travel blog entry from Zurich by christosp
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... 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 ...

A travel blog entry from Lugano by madman96
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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' ...

A travel blog entry from Pully by jelg
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... 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 ...

A travel blog entry from Bern by catters
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... . It should be a blast and we think it is the perfect way to start traveling again. On Monday we go to Basel, Switzerland for a couple of days before we fly from there to Cagliari, Sardinia. Then we go to Sicily, Southern Italy, Greece and Eastern ...

A travel blog entry from Gryon by meganandkevin
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... 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 ...

A travel blog entry from Zurich by tbassplayer
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... 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 ...

A travel blog entry from Engelburg by itsem
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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 ...

A travel blog entry from Interlaken by catters
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... 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 ...

A travel blog entry from Lauterbrunnen by byrnedm
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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 ...

A travel blog entry from Lausanne by emanddave
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