Continental Zurich

Jobless, living at home and generally stuck in a rut after leaving university, I've decided I need to run away for a while to clear my head and have some adventures. As a first-time traveller on my own I've decided to stick to europe for now and hope to ...

Just living the dream is all..

... , everything was a blanket of white and the snow was falling heavily. The GE sign just outside the train station here in Zurich displayed a temperature of – 2. Lord, it was cold, thank God for scarves and hats. Today, we had a quiet day shopping ...

After visiting Linderhof Castle we started the drive to Zurich.  We have had somewhat of a difficult time navigating out of cities to go the correct direction we want to go.  We were planning on driving through Germany to get to Switzerland but ...

... system of Switzerland it starts to get easier, because it is so easy to use. We found our hotel, which was Hotel Continental, and we freshened up and changed. Then we hit the ground running. We saw the main attractions like the Grossmunster, the ...

... or 8 times what it would be in Bulgaria orange hair and poodles then there's the characters at the Hotel Central Continental in Interlaken the ber fashionable guy behind the desk always in ripped up jeans and sport jackets and his little ...

... for the night. We tried calling back but we couldn't reach them using the caller id number on the phone. Later we saw on Continental's website that their flight had taken off at 7:22 pm, so we assumed they were on their way home. We wish they could ...

... afternoon train back to Karlsruhe. We went home to consume cheesy leftovers and plan our next outing. After checking the Continental website we noticed that Scott and Maureen's scheduled (but greatly delayed) flight from Zürich had landed in Newark ...

... awful very fatty. Of course I complained and we ended up with the deserts and coffee free! Clearly my communication skills are continental - fab. We drove up to Strasbourg the next day another lovely hotel expecting to stay only one night but ending up ...

... airplane food for dinner consisting of chicken and rice with a small salad, roll, and 2 Brussels cookies. I'm kidding, I find that Continental's food isn't so bad really. We arrived only 10 minutes late in Zurich, got that coveted passport stamp, and ...

... . Being ever the planner, as soon as I booked my flight, which was a ridiculously cheap $462 round trip direct flight on Continental!, I started planning what I wanted to see and do. The same day I booked my flight, I went directly to the library to take ...

... on out trip so far. Wednesday 29th July 2009 7.30AM and we were out of bed, showered and down at the hotel Continental for breakfast. We left the hotel and 9AM, crossed the river, passed the Central Railway station and boarded our tour coach to Lucerne ...

... a "Zurich" T-shirt. I wondered if he was heading to Zurich too, but I know that Newark is an international hub for Continental and he could have been on his way somewhere else. After a five hour flight to Newark, we disembarked and I noticed that ...

The first real experience of the Swiss transport system; an excursion to Vaduz in neighbouring Lichtenstein. It entailed a train from Zurich to Sargans, and then a bus from Sargans to Vaduz.  There was a certain amount of scepticism in believing the ...

... curves in the road with no or barely any guard rail.  It was so stressfull to me that I made Mark drive back to Zurich a different way. Mont-Blanc is absolutely beautiful.  The ride up on the cable car was very interesting - they pack so many ...

... though to really feel like you'd seen enough. Yesterday was my huge eight-and-a-half hour train journey from Vienna to Zurich, to get me to Zermatt for today. Honestly, it flew by, the scenery was incredible. Especially at ...

... , and as much as I like bacon, I'm not going to eat the baked beans or the tomato. And there's plenty in the continental breakfast anyway. I'm getting quite fond of Hammersmith. It's a nice little suburb, and getting back here of an evening is always a ...

... up and on the Glacier Express by 9am for our departure to Zermatt. We woke to a clear day of 10degs and after a European Continental B’fast, we were taken to the train station to board the Glacier Express for the 8 hour trip to Zermatt. We set off ...

... ;                 Accodamation at the Continental Hotel Zurich  ...