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Switzerland

A travel blog entry by elkojeannie

ok here we are in Switzerland. The train ride up was great yesterday. The hills with all the cows and sheep are just like the pictures. I think maybe this is where I will move. Things here are much slower paced than in Italy. Not sure about the food because we couldnt read the menu. We do thinnk it said something about deer meat, we did not eat …

Calais to Basel

A travel blog entry by lawlessbrothers

Well, after being given our challenge sheet on the start line we took around 5 minutes to work out what was actually quite a simple task We spent so much time concentrating on navigating away from Calais onto the correct motorway that we lost vital seconds of Scalliage!! The task was called "Battleships" whereby we had to take a snap of each and …

Day 2

A travel blog entry by jgilmer

Woke up this morning to see this view from our hotel window. Light dusting of snow overnight. Best thing I ever did was get travel insurance. They called me every hour to let me know the status of luggage. They located my luggage and had it delivered by 11:00 last night. A guy staying in same hotel and flew the same flights ...

Arriving in Basel

A travel blog entry by jgilmer

We arrived earlier this afternoon in Basel. Flight delayed 30 minutes leaving Houston so had to run to catch plane in Frankfurt. Needless to say no pictures and for those of you that know my history, no luggage. Lufthansa is saying 50,000 bags are stranded in Frankfurt. Hopefully I will get it before we leave on cruise. Going exploring in a ...

Switzerland - Day 14

A travel blog entry by carleyandtommy

... bonding session that did not need any translation, drawing doodles in the snow is apparently a universal conversation starter.

It was challenging work hiking in the snow up this Mountain with the altitude difference and the lack of recent regular exercise did not help, it was a lot of fun though and we all thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. A fairly common sight to see were young children walking up the track with their parents only ...