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Our change of plans took us through Switzerland

A travel blog entry by craigandlauren

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... use our flight via the UK (which was going to Amman, Jordan) to get to Ireland in the middle, and then head to the Baltics. A bit of a roundabout, but it meant we would get to Switzerland, France and Luxembourg, which were never in our original plans.

And so Lucern was our first stop. We had heard it was beautiful and a "gateway to the mountains" so it seemed ...

Switzerland at its finest

A travel blog entry by stephaniekroll

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We thought that we would have much more luck in Luzern in terms of our mountain climbing aspirations, with no such luck. After getting off of the train it was still pouring. We checked into our hotel and took a map and kind of wandered around for a bit. Luzern is also somewhat mellow. There were SO MANY Asian tourists here, I have never seen so many Asians accumulate in one spot in my life. We took a map and kind of started ...

Mount Pilatus

A travel blog entry by lgrove32

On the schedule for today was ascending Mount Pilatuas, one of the many Alp peaks in the Lucerne area. We took a cogwheel train up to the top which was about a 30 minute ride. The train was built in the late nineteenth century and was over 100 years old and the steepest cogwheel train on the earth. We were sometimes at a 48 degree angle.  The ride up was beautiful, we could see for miles. ...

Day 7: From the Alps to Zumpi

A travel blog entry by chungs

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... so we walked a bit more today but I actually liked these short walks more than our long bus rides.

To get to the top of Mt. Pilatus, we took two different gondolas and rode up three levels. The first gondola we took was a small gondola that could seat up to four people. Without stopping at level one, it took about 20 minutes to go up from the ground level to level two. Then, we changed to a much bigger gondola which could ...

To be Franc with you...

A travel blog entry by laeurope

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... night with a couple I met at the silence retreat in Guatemala. Now, to say that I "met" them, really means that I spoke to them once... on my last day there, once the silence had been lifted. Needless to say, not being able to talk to them made it a little difficult to get to know them. Sometimes you can just tell though, when people are good. They are a very sweet couple with a really interesting perspective on life. They were married before Sensei, not in a church, and ...

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