Switzerland Travel Blogs - Page 5

Operation tycoon well everyone told me ...

A travel blog entry by endeuro2000

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... My problem was I wasn't going to be in Basel beyond lunch time. Tim quietly suggested that I try The United bank of Switzerland across the road because their head office was in Basel and if someone needed to get someone to get permission from someone, ...

Lucerne, Switzerland

A travel blog entry by benandtrudie

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... 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: ...

First Taste of Foriegn Culture

A travel blog entry by whereshegoes

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I am finally here. I am really tired and this keyboard is funny...the y is not in the right place and there are dots on top of the letter ��. It is a different world here. Note to self- buy compass. I got lost 4 times today. Its ok though because I ...

And all that Jazz

A travel blog entry by jag

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... De Chillon, a beautiful fortress sitting on the waters edge a short walk out of town. This is the most visited historical site in Switzerland however we managed to catch it early in the morning with very few other visitors. The sun had at last paid us a ...

Operation nightrider some people prefer to ...

A travel blog entry by endeuro2000

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... to continue with Fabio from Milano to Zurich. After the swapping and signing of some customs papers we were moving again. Fabio didn't like Switzerland, the people or the place. I couldn't keep my eyes off it. Most of the way from Basel to Zurich I ...

Found the Funny Farm

A travel blog entry by whereshegoes

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I think I just came upon one of the best places in the world. I know this because I have met people from almost every continent and we all feel the same way. Interlaken is amazing. There are beautiful mountains all around and it is sandwiched between two ...

Interlaken

A travel blog entry by jag

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Interlakens setting is pretty hard to beat. Set between the lakes, Thun and Brienz and locked in with the huge young snow-capped peaks towering above. Our campsite was in prime position on the waters edge. The actual town itself was a complete tourist ...

Jettin into Geneva

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From Montreux we caught a ferry down into Geneva. The boat took five awesome hours with feet up in the sun, watching the vineyards and small villages passing by on the each side of the shores. Very relaxing! We eventually floated into Geneva past the ...

Bears in Bern

A travel blog entry by jag

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I loved Bern. The Swiss capital was unlike another Western Europe capital I have seen. We had decided to hitch through France and Switzerland so we left Dijon during a break in the weather and hooked up a few rides and into Switzerland. We were about 50km ...

Canyoning and Motoring

A travel blog entry by whereshegoes

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Wow. I went canyoning today. It was nothing short of spectacular. First I rapelled down a 150 meter canyon, then we jumped, slid and climbed through more than a mile of beautiful Swiss Canyon. It was a little cold but we had wet suits on (as well as all ...

Making New Friends

A travel blog entry by whereshegoes

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... in less than 4 hours. Then its a whole new place. Maybe with sun not rain. But even the rain is special in Switzerland. I was speaking to some travellers yesterday about optimism. One said that he was a true pessimist. I argued that really, how bad could ...

Riggi Bahn

A travel blog entry by fwice

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The Alps :)

A travel blog entry by heatherabroad

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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 ...

Meinisberg

A travel blog entry by swissbear

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Abfahrt zu unserer grossen Reise. Wir sind gespannt, was wir alles erleben ...

Views, hikes and yodelling

A travel blog entry by tan14

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... a boat on the Brienz lake from Interlaken to visit the Ballenberg museum, a living history museum with houses and traditional ways of Switzerland. The boat trip was beautiful and the water was a gorgeous aqua blue colour , the trip takes around 1 hr 10. ...

Time to take off !

A travel blog entry by alan_tdm1

Hi Folks. Voici le jour du d�part, Je suis dans l'a�rogare, en direct de Gen�ve Cointrin. Il est 10h40 et le soleil brille. Le vol s'annonce ...

Paris to Interlaken

A travel blog entry by penns

... checked (All the other countries we have been in are part of the European Union, where people can travel freely. Switzerland, though, as a neutral country, will not join the EU because they feel it would betray their neutrality). Mom wanted ...

"God does not play dice." -Einstein

A travel blog entry by drzao

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The land of watches and chocolate

A travel blog entry by dawieboy

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Sitting in a train station at two in the morning is not fun when there are drunk Austrians about. The one dude took a liking to Claudia so I had to impose myself on him and he finely got the message without blood being shed. Anyway, safe and sound ...

Contiki Europe 2006!!

A travel blog entry by kbroder86

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... that didn't seem like we were going to do a whole lot, it ended up being a lot of fun. Day 7...Lucerne to Hopfgarten, Austria Switzerland was the only place we stayed for one night, but before we left, we got to go up Mt. Pilatus, aka the home of ...

Attempting to Not Die While Skiing

A travel blog entry by beccaboyer

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... me to include more information about school, classes, etc. in my blogs, it's not going to happen for the rest of my time in Switzerland. My classes are too terrible to even mention, and it only makes me mad thinking about it ... so, enjoy the much more ...

Davos

A travel blog entry by eithne

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I'm here and alive in some form. I think I shall go jump off a cliff later this week and see if I fly... (the family is taking me hang gliding, stop ...

Jumping to my death in Switzerland

A travel blog entry by emily.

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... . If only Saturday was just as nice. The sun was shining, the sky was bright blue and the swiss alps surrounded us everywhere. Switzerland is truly breathtaking. It was so gorgeous just walking around the city. We then met up with everyone and got on the ...

Swiss Alps

A travel blog entry by katieengstrom

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... an opened parachute and you run off of a cliff and just float around in the air. It is by far the best way to see Switzerland and the Alps. The rest of the trip consisted of eating at Hooters (I never knew they had such great food!), having ...

Good bye Southamerica

A travel blog entry by schnaefu

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I spent the days before I went back to Switzerland with Shopping, hairdresser, nail studio and drinking. hi hi... It was a strange feeling when I took the taxi to the airport... still sweating like hell but knowing that in a few hours I shall be ...

Good bye to Alps and off to Albania

A travel blog entry by ahlquist

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Sandy and I are saying good-bye to the Alps today. There are many things/hikes/walks that we would have loved to do, but it is time to end leg 1 of our journey. Yesterday we took another of those cable cars that Sandy likes to a high spot and hiked ...

The end or the beginning

A travel blog entry by gregsbigshimmy

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and like that, she began. It could so easily have been a year or two long extravaganza but where one of lifes journeys ends, the next begins. Its been truly a trip of a lifetime, generally at a fast pace though that's as much how I live life as a ...

Bears, the chindlifresser and a country is born

A travel blog entry by elizabessie

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Bern is a town named for the first animal killed within the new town's borders. (A bear). Since then, the city has kept bears in a bear pit (like in the zoo) down by the river, for public enjoyment. Kind of like a little mini-zoo that is free. Sort of. ...

the end of the beginning

A travel blog entry by dancingshanti

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I am in Z�rich and it's snowing like crazy. I love it! I am in winter again... Ahh, the bitter sweetness of a cappucino! fresh baked bread! a hot shower! just as there's nothing like embarking on a journey, there's nothing like coming home :) ...

Matted.

A travel blog entry by joeljenaturner

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We all jumped in the van after the hotel fellow tried to bust us for camping outside their door. Somehow we were able to convince him that we were paying customers. We wound our way up to a town called Tasch, where we left bigwig trustily with some ...

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Operation tycoon well everyone told me ...

Lucerne, Switzerland

First Taste of Foriegn Culture

And all that Jazz

Operation nightrider some people prefer to ...

Found the Funny Farm

Interlaken

Jettin into Geneva

Bears in Bern

Canyoning and Motoring

Making New Friends

Riggi Bahn

The Alps :)

Meinisberg

Views, hikes and yodelling

Time to take off !

Paris to Interlaken

"God does not play dice." -Einstein

The land of watches and chocolate

Contiki Europe 2006!!

Attempting to Not Die While Skiing

Davos

Jumping to my death in Switzerland

Swiss Alps

Good bye Southamerica

Good bye to Alps and off to Albania

The end or the beginning

Bears, the chindlifresser and a country is born

the end of the beginning

Matted.