Lucerne, Switzerland Travel Blogs

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 ...

Lucerne not Lausanne
Jul 23, 2007 (15 photos)

... 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 (very confusing saying these places). We arrived smack bang in the town and luckily it was quite a small town so finding the ...

Lucerne..
May 5, 2008 (7 photos)

... .. Right next to it, or really part of the bridge, was the Water Tower, this is the most photographed icon in all of Switzerland, believe it or not..   It took us about half an hour to walk to the Lion Monument as we would stop every 5 or ...

Lugano fifty minutes into our bus journey ...
Jun 22, 2001

... private railway up to Jungfraujoch, but this was well outside our budget, plus, the trip can be done from Lucerne anyway. We couldn't leave Switzerland without having a Fondue, so we asked the staff at Backpackers for a recommendation of where to go. ...

2 mois maintenant
Aug 10, 2007

... ! J'aurai donc dépensé à peu près 3100$ pour ce 2ieme mois. Pas pire pas pire! Demain si il fait beau j'irai visité Lucerne sinon et bien je glanderai dans mon lit. Dimanche je parts déjà pour Paris. Aucune auberge disponible à Paris ce sera donc hotel pour 3 ...

Zurich & Luzern - Day 125
Jun 26, 2008 (17 photos)

... . You can visit most of the big cities in under 3 hours by train. The best way to describe Luzern is "typical Switzerland", it satisfies all the stereotypes you'd associate with a typical Swiss city. The architecture, the lake and rivers, the cow bells ...

Bed, Breakfast and Lunch..
May 6, 2008 (8 photos)

... ... just walked around Lucerne... - Bought a bunch of pocket knives for souvenirs... as you do when you're in Switzerland. - Used the EEE pc to get free wifi...   <Lang's Extended Version>   A breakfast buffet ...

Def a WOW moment!! :-) :-) :-) :-)
Jan 21, 2007 (55 photos)

... Lauren! Rach, Big Rob, Lindsay and I then sat by the lake whilst I fulfilled a life dream - eating my Swiss Chocolate, in Switzerland, whilst looking at the Swiss Alps!! Photos in the the album... :-) After that we walked around for a little bit - and ...

Lucerne, Switzerland
May 28, 2005 (4 photos)

... of the country. The country can be shutoff within minutes with strategically placed explosives around the country. Switzerland made shitloads off WWII, slave labour and Jewish plunder from Germany being the major contributors. History: Luzern's ...

Exploring Luzern
Mar 25, 2009 (14 photos)

... of the panorma. It was a giant 360 degree mural of the retreat of the French EAstern Army under General Bourbaki into Switzerland during the Franco-Prussian War in 1870-1871...which I had never learned about...but even if you've never heard of it, it ...

Lucerne
Jun 23, 2007

Innsbruck was a beautiful place. Coming in from Austria to Switzerland the alps didn't change that much but what did change was the amount of lakes. Switzerland was full of lakes. Around every turn was a new lake surrounded by a town of some kind. It was ...

Switzerland is Beautiful... even in the rain!
Aug 6, 2007 (12 photos)

... to our tour guide (who could speak for hours without taking a breath) talk about all the interesting things about Switzerland.  The most interesting stuff was about the Swiss Military... they have done some brilliant things. For example, there are a ...

Switzerland
Aug 8, 2007

... ; Not moving.  In pouring rain.  When they finally reopened the tunnel, we made it to Lucerne.  Swiss chocolate is #2 after Belgium.  Switzerland is not part of The European Union, so they don't use the Euro.  They still take Swiss ...

mmmmm Swiss chocolate
Apr 11, 2007

... and went to bed. His fiance shazza was already in bed, she didn't even bother to come and watch the movie. Overall Switzerland was a very pretty place. My best memory will be of the snow fights we had. We got absolutely pounded and pounded other people ...

Lucerne
Jul 17, 1999 (3 photos)

We left Munich at 12:15PM and via 3 trains arrived in Luzern, Switzerland at 7:30PM.  We got off the train and took a long hike (mostly uphill) with our packs to the hostel, Pension Panorama.  When we arrived the ...

Tour 5271 / 0820 Day 23
Sep 11, 2007

... at the sights. Our hotel is called The Hotel Schiller and its one of our best yet. It is in the centre of Lucerne, has a balcony, massive room, great open planned shower and toilet. Plasma TV screen. Others however weren't as lucky for some reason but ...

Thoiry to Lucerne
May 25, 2008 (5 photos)

... , but also has a used needle disposal unit in each cubicle..... On with the walking tour, Bern is not a place for animal lovers, as they have full grown bears kept at Barengraben for the tourist's amusement. We then continued on our travels to Lucerne.

Rothenburg, Germany
Jun 16, 2006 (5 photos)

Rothernburg is a city that lies at the intersection of what used to be two of the most traveled trade routes. Rothenburg is one of the only fully walled and fortified cities with the wall still completely intact.

Long Needed Update....
Mar 14, 2007

... The Louvre and , of course, the Eiffel Tower...Today we took a 12 hr bus from Paris to a little mountainside village near Lucerne. We stopped at this really cute village for lunch and I had Pain Chocolate and my mum had a Saumon Quiche... Its amazing ...

1st night
Sep 19, 2007

To travel on Swiss highways, we have to buy a sticker (vignette) that costs 40 CHF. We buy it at the border from the border patroll. (It's convenient, we don't even have to get out of the car ...) Near Basel we go off the highway and try to find a ...

Die Stadt, Der See, Die Berge...
Oct 2, 2009 (6 photos)

As we are only here for one night, we wanted to experience Lucerne This morning we took a walking tour through Lucerne... stopping to spend Swiss Franks on chocolate and strudel.  The Fall weather was perfect, as we were able to see the Swiss Alps and ...

Lucerne
May 27, 2006

Lucerne

Duck Family visits Rothenburg ob der Tauber
Mar 23, 2006 (10 photos)

Our family made a day trip to the medieval village of Rothenburg, Germany. It felt a little bit like an episode of the Brady Bunch or the Simpsons when they take family vacations. Nancy never envisioned the family making it to Europe! The weather was ...

Yodel-ay-hee-hoo!
May 18, 2002 (4 photos)

I am currently writing this in the Swiss Alps, 10,000 feet above sea level. It is beautiful up here. It is cloudy down in Gimmelwald where John and I are staying, but the Schilthorn, where I am currently, is above the clouds so it is sunny. A little ...

Through the French Countryside
Jun 20, 2007 (9 photos)

... he doesn't just give usa printed  schedule for the next day-makes too much sense I guess.  We finally reached Lucerne, in central Switzerland, and followed the windy road up the mountains to Engelberg, our home for the next two nights.  Our ...

Oneadays
Sep 4, 2007

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Back to Steph's roots...
Aug 21, 2007

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Lucerne and Mt Stanserhorn
Jun 21, 2007 (28 photos)

... up. Lucerne is a lovely city-modern yet quaint.  We saw the dying lion carved into the mountain-a symbol of how Switzerland would protect France.  Then of course there was shopping.  My credit card had forgotten how to work, but I managed ...

Rothenburg ob der tauber
Jan 16, 2007

I think I'll give you a bit about my weekend trip, while I am waiting for evening rounds to start. I took the train from Hannover friday night to Rothenburg, got off at the station, and could not figure out where to go for the life of me. There was no ...

what pretty flowers you got there..
Jul 18, 2009

Wow quaint little swiss town full of flowers cascading off of balconies and this beautifully built old bridge running across town. Everyone should make it a stop when near zurich..its such a beautiful little town!