Hotel Garni Saga
Travel Blogs from Triesen
Chur and the train trip to Morges
... side. Now a race against time it's 11:49 - check out for the hotel is 12noon and the train goes to Morges at 12:16. We get to the hotel at 12:01 get our bags and board the train at 12:15 - now that is to the minute timing! We have to make a change at Zurich and Camille had only downloaded up to the 12.09 train, so with a bit of guess work using the previous train times, we managed to make the connection with about 8 minutes to spare! We're getting good at ...
Not much in Lichtenstein
... scenery, although most of it was blocked by a thick wall of cloud. After less than an hour I was in Lidau, a town on the edge of the big Lake Bodensee in the south of Germany (the lake borders Germany, Austria and Switzerland!). Here I stopped for a coffee and a stroll and a sit. It's a lovely little town with a part of it on a small island which is where I had my chai latte. ...
Davos
... back up at the base. The road wound around the waterfall, which was on the right hand side as you headed up to the pass. When you completed the switchback, you got a really nice view down the valley and of the waterfall. That’s one of the things I’ve realized being on a bike – the scenery, the memories are completely different. For one thing, you’ve got a lot more time to enjoy the scenery and take in all the details. In addition to that, ...
Stamp Stop in Liechtenstein
... with flowers embroidered on them which was placed just above their nose. It was all very neat to see and the group was much larger than the one we had seen before. Once again, Anoop took lots of photos and then dashed on ahead to get a video.
We then headed to the free postal museum with a temporary exhibit of Liechtenstein’s first stamp from 1912. It was also a kind of archives and my favourite part was that you could pull out ...
A crash course in Appenzeller history and culture
... ended with an overview of some of their most famous advertisements (which have immediate brand recognition in Switzerland at least) - I’m sure they would have been funny if we’d understood German.
After the presentation, we hovered by the viewing balcony to wait for the moulds to be filled. It was really interesting to watch the whole process and to see how efficiently it is done. There was only one person on the production ...