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Switzerland Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Switzerland
City of lights, Lucern.
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Switzerland is the gnome
This is a top pick! ... them for hours some days. Anyway, I think this gnome is a sneaky lil' bugger that syphons money from your wallet...Switzerland is freakin' expensive! Like 2-3 times more expensive than the other places I've been in Europe. It's still possible to find ...
Lugano fifty minutes into our bus journey ...
This is a top pick! ... 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. They suggested Pfistern ...
Dawn Breaks Over Zurich
This is a top pick! The brown stripe on the horizon has thickened to pink. My doG, I'm laying my own eyes on Homer's rosy-fingered ...
Bank Holiday (we finally discover)
This is a top pick! I woke this morning at 7:30 keen to get going after a couple of days rest. Also I thought that if we could get going early we would miss the campsite attendant and blag a weekends free camping. we did!! We pegged it down the road, red ...
Our first day off!!!
This is a top pick! Amazing to wake up in the hotel, with nothing to do all day! Had breakfast in bed then went out for a wander leaving 10 bags and the bikes with the hotel. Mikey was too embarrassed to leave our stinky cycling shoes so had to carry them around all day. We ...
Gryon
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Is that a Toblerone in Your Pocket?
This is a top pick! ... , and have a bit of time, come to this town. It's beautiful, and a nice break from the more touristy, Alp-y section of Switzerland. While I was still there, my friend Michelle (who I am on my way to see in Tanzania) had a stop over in Switzerland for a ...
Lucerne..
This is a top pick! ... .. 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 ...
Ancient Machines..
This is a top pick! ... from Zurich to Innsbruck would be about 4 hours. As we wanted to use up all our Swiss francs before we left Switzerland, we headed back to Sprungli and tried to spend our last 13.35sfr on truffles. We ended up with 8 truffles and 95 ...
Ducks for Breakfast
This is a top pick! Woke up this morning to the sound of the waves on the lake. Beautiful sunshine and we ate our breakfast surrounded by cheeky ducks who were wandering all round our stuff and even trying to get in the tent. Late last night a couple arrived who have spend ...
A Swiss summer
This is a top pick! ... Swiss food, watching the parade (yes cows were involved), and of course fireworks. They have quite the history considering Switzerland became a national entity in 1291. Pretty amazing stuff. I will end for now but we will be posting another entry in ...
Revisiting old haunts
This is a top pick! otherwise known as Al, Nic's brother. Not really Al! Al kindly picks us up and back to Lisa's flat who we meet for the first time and is far too good for Al. Next day have a wander around Geneva to see Dave's old flat and ...
On top of the World!
This is a top pick! <Brian's brief chronological list of "highlights" (and of whinging)> - Rode another cable car that went up to the Schilthorn... the top of one of the snow capped mountains that features a rotating restaurant... which was also used ...
Paola Pezzo, you are a babe
This is a top pick! ... had a drive whilst I slept. When I woke up, all the grapes and other goodies had been eaten by Lucy. We drove into Switzerland and arrived at Chateau d'Oeux, and proceeded to set up our tent. Lucy was inside setting the sleeping bags up, when she asked ...
Stopover in Geneva
This is a top pick! The next day we packed up the tents, reminisced on what a great 2 weeks it had been and I said my goodbyes and headed to Geneva by train. I decided that instead of getting straight to Sweden to start my Scandinavia travel, I really should check out ...
Going to Visit Louise and Tom!!!
This is a top pick! ... its winter because its such a heavy meal and not suitable for warm weather. Because Tom wasn't there though (he's originally from Switzerland) and we were just with Louise, who's actually from Malta, we figured we could bend the rules. So we went to ...
Bern & Luzern
This is a top pick! The plan for the day was to head to Bern to check out the capital then head to Luzern where we would meet up with Tom. The original plan wasn't to go to Bern because it is such an expensive train ride but since we have our Eurorail pass and Louise ...
Hiking in the Swiss Alps!!
This is a top pick! We were all very tired when we woke up and went to the train station. Tom was going to pick us up at a town close to where we would be hiking as he went back to his parents place outside of Luzern the night before. It was a half hour drive up ...
The Deutsche side of Switzerland
This is a top pick! ... and run around in. We did this. We found a Swiss army shop and bought gifts for our mum's. This was the German side of Switzerland. It was nice, but the as we got to the border of Swiss Deutsche and Swiss French, a whole new world was opening up to us. ...
The Place I never wanted to leave....
This is a top pick! What an insane few days, what an amazing place and what a great bunch of people... Interlaken has definately been the hardest place for me to leave. After a cloudy first day prevented jumping out of a plane, a split second decision had me launching ...
French Switzerland, Deep Purple style
This is a top pick! ... at the top. We were on top of Switzerland. Snow was everywhere so Lucy was excited. We were nearing our complete circumnavigation of Switzerland, when we tried to cross a mountain and the roads were blocked, so we chucked a u-turn and drove back. However, ...
Chocolate, Knives and Watches
This is a top pick! ... - I purchased a new knife; given I have a very sweet tooth - I sampled plenty of chocolate.... Two out of three isn't bad but I just couldn't leave Switzerland without getting myself a watch to complete the trio! ...
Looking forward to getting to Berlin
This is a top pick! ... Zurich does not offer much at all for the tourist. You kind of need to get out of Zurich to enjoy the real Switzerland, which unfortunately, my budget does not afford. I can think of many more pristine and beautiful locations around the world that beats ...
Liam in Zurich
This is a top pick! Heyas, Well, this is my first entry. Am finally in Switzerland, and it's very pretty and treelined in this part of Zurich. The flight was pretty uneventful. Couldn't sleep much, so watched several dodgy flicks and played a bit of Tetris. ...
Oncle
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Plans go astray
This is a top pick! ... evening we met up with Sabine and her friend Eva and a Canadian girl who is also staying with Sabine. We had a sumptuous dinner at a Greek restaurant beside the Aare River - on a spectacularly warm summer evening. Farewell Switzerland - I shall ...
Chapter 56: In der Schweiz
This is a top pick! ... in a parallel universe where the language sounded vaguely familiar, but garbled through distortion filters. Weird. Everything in Switzerland is shockingly expensive. Especially the restaurants, where a main course generally runs 25 Swiss francs (US$20). ...
Too much of a good thing
This is a top pick! ... Tip #19: If you are traveling with a child fifteen years or younger, the very first thing you should do upon your arrival in Switzerland is purchase a Junior Travel Card for 20 Swiss francs (AUD $22). This allows your child to travel free of charge on any ...