Edelweiss Hotel Engelberg
Terracestrasse 10 Engelberg, Lucerne, CH-6390, Switzerland
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Germany to Switzerland
Wednesday 27th April 2011
Heidelberg
We left Manneheim at 7.30 am heading towards Heidelberg, were we viewed the Heidelberg Castle built in 1386.
Then on towards the Swiss Boarder to Engelberg, our destination for tonight.
Traffic was horrible and we were held up for over 1/2 hour, due to an accident. Guiseppi our driver took an alternate route and ...
Stack at 10,000 Feet
... down the tracks but way into the mountains. We have been here 3 nights and it has been truly incredible. Engelberg (translating to Angel Mountain) is in a dead flat valley surrounded by absolutely huge steep mountains on all sides. The closest-looking and most easily defined is called Angel Mountain and, obviously, gives the town its name. It kinda looks like it has wings, but you have to have a good imagination. Everything here is green and lush, ...
Farewell Lauterbrunnen; Dad's safety lights
... at the camp, and midge like creatures that really pack a bite! But it’ll do for a couple nights. Mostly NL plated cars again and also a few GB stickers, and lots of D plates like ours of course. People keep coming up to me wanting to talk about life ‘back in Deutschland’ but I have to explain I just hired the car there, as I did a few minutes ago to a bloke who was excited as the first two letters of the number plates were identical to his (a Múnchite I ...
Engelberg – Mt Titlis
... it is something I’m planning to investigate later. After about 40 minutes on the train our journey ended and we cooly drove off the train with everyone else, having no idea where we were or even what country we were in.
Our GPS didn’t seem to mind though and gave us directions to continue. The roads got narrower, steeper and windier. After a while it was clear that we were still in Switzerland but we still had around an ...
Lucerne Sights
... also a chocolate shop which had the chestnut which was a round chocolate representing the nut and green marzipan representing the furry bit on the outside. Champagne chocolates seem to be popular.
We walked around the old city, looking at the variety of shops, even finding a huge bookshop with an English section. It was getting colder and raining more so we went back to the hotel to get warmer clothes ...



