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Day 2
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
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
... exertion of energy, who needs wine when you can get the same affects climbing the Swiss Alps.
Going down was so so much easier and I was able to enjoy the scenery and atmosphere of our little walk in the woods on the mountain, even a little Italian man was having the time of his life pushing massive lumps of snow that had built up and watching it crash on to trees below while giggling and pointing for us to look. We were constantly having ...
Switzerland - Day 13
... snowboarding it out were roughly from the age of 3-14, with a few dogs as well...we were completely in our element. Once again a few basic lessons on steering and how to use the break we headed off down the 'slopes', totally hard core, First attempt saw me sink into the snow and bog myself, damn those croissants and pastries. When I finally got going, man oh man these things can fly! I was not so good at steering and kept trying to put the breaks on which caused me to ...
Switzerland - Day 12
... snow gloves and a proper winter jacket for Tommy. Once set we headed off to look around Lucerne, one of the sights we saw was the worlds longest wooden bridge Kapellbrucke (Chapel Bridge) and walked along it. This bridge was built in 1333 and has more than 100 early 17th century paintings in its roof recording the history of the city, there was however a fire in 1993 destroying a some of the pictures.
We had another (roll of the ...