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Chur Slideshow
Top Hotels in Chur
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Best Western Hotel Sommerau Chur
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Romantik Hotel Stern Chur
76 reviews -
Abc Swiss Q Hotel Chur
55 reviews
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Ibis Chur
90 reviews
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Hotel Chur
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Hotel Drei Konige Chur
55 reviews
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Hotel Sportcenter Funf Dorfer Chur
2 reviews
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Hotel Freieck Chur
40 reviews
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Posthotel Chur
43 reviews
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Hotel Duc De Rohan Chur
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Hotel JBN Chur
10 reviews
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Zunfthaus Rebleuten Chur
24 reviews
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Tom's Rabluta Chur
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Travel Blogs from Chur, Switzerland
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Glacier Express - Train Across The Alps
... set of to meet us at the other end. We then had an hour to kill before the train arrived, i took a walk around Chur a nice town with most of the usual shops you would expect to see, i also picked up a tomato and mozzeralla baggette ...
Day 6 - Furka Pass and St Bernadino Pass
The Furka Pass - great name and featured in the film Goldfinger for all you film buffs. Absolutely brilliant road as it wasn't too busy, had spectacular views (of the Rhone Glacier) and had a really car-friendly surface. Much fun and a few nice ...
A stop over to catch the Glacier Express
... fewer people in the car, which actually is nice. The bottom line though is don't bother to reserve first class. We head out from Chur at 12:13. The schedule has us arriving in Zermatt at 6:00 pm. The time goes by quickly because there is so much to ...
bed bugs, 17 roommates, and thunder storms
... I had of made it out to visit Chur, as it was a lovely little village, and one of the oldest, continuously inhabitated places in Switzerland. I didn't go to the stadium to watch the semi-final game between Russia and Spain, but I did catch it on the big ...
Cathedrals and Chocolate Bunnies in Chur
... in Chur, we made our way to the Bahnhofstrasse, the main road. The scenery we encountered was amazing...what everyone pictures Switzerland to be like with big mountains in the background...just beautiful! The first store we passed by was a confisserie :) ...
Noch 2 Wochen
Liebe Leser und Leserinnen, in genau zwei Wochen geht unsere Reise los. Ab dem 25. April werden wir (Flavia und Flavio) in den darauffolgenden drei Monaten mit einem Truckcamper von Vancouver aus nach Alaska reisen und und hoffentlich Westcanada von ...
The Golden Pass Train, Luzern, and Chur
... and Thalwill, Chur is the destination. It's a pleasant town of no particular interest. The Hotel Chur is quite adequate and not expensive for Switzerland: the reason for its price becomes apparent after dark when all the red lights come on in the ...
the alps
... to bern for multiple day trips by Swiss rail, the southeast corner of Lugano, Locarno and Bellinzona with the lakes of Switzerland, and now the alps of mid and northern east swiss countryside where jagged peaks, intermix with small villages with cows ...
The Glacier Express
... couple from Bern – had a good chat in broken English – they were able to fill us in on the area and Switzerland. Essentially the Alps we are travelling through is the major spine where the River Rhine starts and ends up in the Atlantic and the ...
Rolling into Switzerland
... roll out of bed until I could at least see my toes. I still made it by 8 o'clock...our planned time of departure for Switzerland. We were off to see the glaciers. Whilst in Stein am Rhein the other day we had purchased rail tickets for a journey ...
Day 43 - Glacier Express to Chur
... tired after a long and exciting day and we ate dinner and retired early to bed. We decided to take a rest day here to recover from the rather rapid trip across Switzerland in the past few days and to rest before the next run which is quite long as well. ...
In the mountains on the Bernina Express.
... the dinner was very edible, very proficiently served and there was time afterwards to have a look around the oldest city in Switzerland. Across the road another hotel was entertaining its guests with strains of a yodelling choir. After a short walk ...
The Bernina Express
... train to catch. The Bernina Express is all that the website says and more. The train with panoramic windows takes you from Chur, Switzerland down to Tirano, Italy. The four hour train ride takes you through the Swiss Alps, past snow covered mountains, ...
Hello
... we are in a corner room, the streets are very tight, only one car could pass, but they seem to manage well. Chur is the oldest city in Switzerland..and our hotel has been here since 1790 or something like that. We are off to Italy today, and don´t know ...
A welcoming meal and bed !!!
After such a long day travelling down the Rhine Valley to Austria and Germany then back into Switzerland through Appenzell into Graubunden back to Chur we needed a nice dinner, then bed !!! We had another long and exciting day ahead of us in the morning. ...
Chur and Bernina Express
... of my time was spent on the internet trying to secure a place to stay in Italy while she was at work. Soon my short time in Chur had come to an end and it was time to board my next scenic train; the Bernina Express. This train was much like the Glacier ...
Greetings from Sargans
Dies ist meine 1. Test-Message von Sargans mit den herzlichsten Grüssen aus dem regennassen Sarganserland. ...
We Depart Chur for Brig
... of the Stockhausen family and the wealth that was the Baronacy of Stockhausen and the salt route exploiters of Medieval Switzerland. Their impressive castle ramparts and towers welcomed us this time but I could imagine that had we been passing by ...
Nachtrodeln =)
Thanks to Gecko's relentless arrangements we could finally find a day on which enough snow was left and most of the friends could join for sleding. Some drinks and a range of nice traditional meals (Cheese Rösti,...) prepared us for the 12km long and ...
A stop between two scenic railway journeys
... for two nights before we catch the next scenic train – Bernina Express into Italy. Saturday 14th January Chur Chur is the oldest town in Switzerland, with a history of settlement spanning approximately 5,000 years. Today Chur is a modern town ...
ANOTHER INTERESTING SWISS CITY.....
... , the local wines are renowned for their high quality. The city boasts one of the highest densities of restaurants in Switzerland, with over 130 establishments and there are also numerous discos, bars and other facilities. The “old town” ...
Kalle and me on tour
It was boring at home the weather was good so we decided to take the car and drive a little bit through the ...
Day-trippin'
We took a day trip on Thursday to see a firm in Chur, Switzerland...Bearth and Deplazes. On our way, we saw some stuff... - a pedestrian bridge that we had to do a small hike to. I can now saw I hiked the Alps. - a church that looked like dinosaur eggs. ...
Our Free Day at Chur.
... wonders on our appetite and our well being! However, after a quick look around the beautiful old city, the oldest in Switzerland, we decided to take the little train up to the winter resort of Arosa. Arriving at the station, ...
Architecture porn
... ve ever seen...yesterday was absolutely incredible. Yesterday was our trip to see some Peter Zumthor and Valerio Olgiati buildings in Chur and Flims, Switzerland. All I can say is holy. crap. amazing. spectacular. mind-blowing. We started at 7:30 am (and ...
Travel to Chur - Day 3
... that the train went direct to Chur as it could have been difficult to unload and reload into a new train. As we passed into Switzerland at Basle the rain started - and kept going - past Zuchsee and along another See (lake) all the way to Chur arrivinig ...
Cold and wet in Chur - Day 4
... , wet and grey and didn't get better all day. Since we couldn't get bike tubes until Monday (practically nothing opens in Switzerland on Sunday) we had a day to fill, preferably keeping warm and dry, which precluded the tent (which was dry but certainly ...
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