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Travel Blogs from Chur
Chur and the train trip to Morges
A pretty rugged night sleep but we know that tonight we will be back in Morges in beds that we will sleep well. A few hours to kill so we look around Chur, a lovely place and we note a Gondola - aerial this time - thinking this could be a good thing to do. So off we head. This gondola goes 1.6k up so a pretty good sight we get of the Chur valley and the surrounding mountains. As the gondola climbs the cows below us ring out a tune via their bells as they graze ...
Davos
... all the natural sounds and smells that come with the ride. There was quite a bit of traffic on the road and I distinctly remember quite a number of Porsches passing me in both directions - I think I counted over twelve of them. That’s the other thing being on a bike – you have a lot of time to take in the details. Rod passed me about a kilometer from the top and he stopped to take some photos. When I made it to the pass, the others had been waiting ...
A crash course in Appenzeller history and culture
... We then sat down in the little theatre to watch a ten minute presentation in English (normally in German but different languages available upon request) on Appenzeller cheese production – Rick Steves seems to think the presentation treads a fine line between informative and advertising but I found it mostly informative (or perhaps that’s because I knew already that I was going to buy the cheese before even entering the factory). ...
When the cows come marching in...Alpabfahrt!
... chocolate expedition, but it would do. Interesting that they were only selling one brand – Frey…no Lindt, toblerone, Cailler… we saw lots of locals grabbing bars off the racks so I figured it had to be decent…after all, is there any such thing as bad Swiss chocolate ? Stocked with groceries and very thrilled that we’d gotten to see the cows return from the Alps, we headed back to camp and settled in for the rest of the afternoon. ...
Barfussweg
... turns out that tomorrow, two herds of cows would be returning from their summer grazing in the high Alps! We thought we had missed this annual event because we had seen cows grazing in the fields near our campsite. We were super excited that we were in time to witness this important event. The decision to bring the herd down from the Alps is made about a day or two before by the head farmer so there isn’t a lot of forewarning. In ...
Location
Other places to stay in Chur
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Romantik Hotel Stern
Reichsgasse 11, Chur | 3 star hotelfrom $195 -
Best Western Hotel Sommerau
Emserstrasse 4, Chur | 2 star hotelfrom $182 -
Hotel ABC
Ottostrasse 8, Chur | 4 star hotelfrom $200 -
Ibis Chur
Richtstrasse 19, Chur | 3 star hotelfrom $95 -
Hotel Drei Konige
Reichsgasse 18, Chur | 2 star hotelfrom $131 -
Hotel Chur
Welschdorfli 2, Chur | 3 star hotelfrom $160 -
Ambiente Hotel Freieck
Reichsgasse 44 , Chur | 3 star hotelfrom $142 -
Comfort Hotel Post
Poststrasse 11, Chur | 3 star hotelfrom $151 -
Tom's Rabluta
Pfisterpl. 1, Chur | Hotel
