Lucerne
Travel Blogs from Lucerne, Switzerland
Lucerne not Lausanne
... 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..
... .. 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 ...
Baby Rais born today!!!!
... a little disappointed as I thought I was allowed to cuddle them. This afternoon we are going to ride as far as we can to Lucerne but a few 1500 meter ascents stand in our way. Going for our first wild camp tonight in the hills so will let you ...
Zurich & Luzern - Day 125
... . 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 ...
City of lights, Lucern.
... the city by night. We made a very good tomato and mozzarella salad and sat by the most photographed monument in Switzerland. A very old bridge with a 30m water tower where they used to torture prisoners. We also visited the famous Lion ...
Lugano fifty minutes into our bus journey ...
... 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. ...
Bed, Breakfast and Lunch..
... today... 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 ...
2 mois maintenant
... 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 ...
Def a WOW moment!! :-) :-) :-) :-)
... 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
... interests 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: ...
The Alps :)
We took a day trip to Engelberg in the Alps. It was unreal...my pictures look fake because you can hardly capture this on camera! We hiked/took a cable car up to the top of Mount Titlis, the views were amazing!! We encountered many ...
Lucerne
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!
In the morning we got up super early to leave Germany and head towards Switzerland. Probably the most interesting part of the drive was listening to our tour guide (who could speak for hours without taking a breath) talk about all the interesting things ...
Lucerene
Today was a long travel day, without much to report. Most people were feeling the effects of the previous night, and slept most of the trip. We hit some pretty bad traffic just as we crossed the Swiss border and didn't get to the hotel until 8pm. The ...
Switzerland
... nbsp; 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 ...
mmmmm Swiss chocolate
... Alan) 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 ...
Lucerne
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
... 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
... , 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 ...
Rothenburg, Germany
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 ...
Chip robbery
... they didn't even taste any better than usual. Getting over this and resolving to do my maths better we caught a train to Lucerne. We found our hostel easily and dumped our bags before heading out to explore. First stop was the Lowendenkmal (Lion ...
Long Needed Update....
... 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
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...
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 ...
contrasts of switzerland
... where on of course was cheese fondue Nextday the lovely village of Stans where we boarded the oldest funicular railway in Switzerland to ascend Stanserhorn,the queen of mountains they say this trip included a cable car trip to the very top ...
Duck Family visits Rothenburg ob der Tauber
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!
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
... 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 ...


