St Gotthard

After a looooong and excausting hillclimb we finally did it and reached the top of the St. Gotthard Pass. We where proud and very exited after that wet, cold and very steep trip with an average of 18 km/h. We met some nice people on top of the mountain. ...

... members of the legal department of a company called AlpTransit and to tour the construction of the world's longest tunnel, the Gotthard Tunnel Project.  This is a project that is sponsored by the Swiss government, and is creating a 57k (actually two ...

... ediniz ..yoksa benim gibi ha şimdi geldiler ha şimdi gelecekler diye lüzumsuz streslere girersiniz. Yolumuz rahat gitti ve ünlü St Gotthard tünelini geçtik.Gotthard Tüneli, 24 km uzunluğuyla Dünya'nın en uzun karayolu ...

... : At the crossroads of the Alps, in the Urseren Valley, this picture-postcard town lies at the junction of two alpine roads -- the St. Gotthard highway and the road to Oberalp and Furka. From the top of Gemstock, reached by cable car, you can see 600 ...

... a totally different creature to Margaret the passenger. We drove through many tunnels, the longest of which was the sixteen kilometre St Gotthard. Tunnel driving is very unnerving as the lighting is dim and the lanes narrow. Fortunately there had been a ...

... is CH!) and their 13th century struggles against the nasty Habsburgs. Once through the claustrophobic 16 km tunnel deep under the St Gotthard Massif (believe it or not, two more tunnels are under construction in other areas that will be more than double ...

... Milan into Italian-speaking southern Switzerland with a stop in subtropical Lugano. Admire the towering majesty of the Swiss Alps and St. Gotthard on the way to picture-book Lucerne. Enjoy a walking tour to admire Thorwaldsen’s LION MONUMENT and ...

... mighty fine next to the lake!) then continued our steep and winding path, picking our way around the lakes and mountains and through St Gotthard tunnel at 9km long.  Coming out the other side we hit Lake Luzern, this was by far the most ...

... low since leaving England (or even Australia when I think about it). To get to lucerne we went through the 17km st gotthard tunnel, and had explained to us what switzerland could do to ensure their neutrality (basically they have about 300 detonation ...

... and to change drivers. Up through Switzerland where they spoke German and had Swiss Francs. Through Luzern and up through the high St. Gotthard pass and tunnel. Gushing rivers down the cliffs. Still a bit cloudy - and freezing cold. But then we started ...

... 's aus wie in Europa! Wunderschön gestaltete Häuser mit bröckelnden Fassen; schaut aus wie die Welt südlich vom Gotthard. Auf einem Ministadtrundgang posaunte an der ersten Strassenecke ein fülliger Tenor "Amazing Grace" und die Nationalhymne in den ...

... 's Chapel), indicating that quite a substantial settlement must have existed in the area. Around 1220, the opening of the Gotthard pass further south created new impetus for growth, with merchants and travellers setting sail from Luzern for the long ...

... - starting with Grimsel with its wonderful viewpoints, onto the Furkha and stopped at the Rhone Glacier and the "blue tunnel" . Down the Gotthard and back and finally onto the Susten. Again the weather made the circuit a really good day out with a lot ...

... railway. One of the best in world (which I had recommended to me by a collegaue of my dad) is the Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn's Glacier Express. Rather than travel to Interlaken the easy way through the northern region, I figured I would head south and ...