Lyon was a quick overnight stop for us on our way west, a way to break up the journey from Switzerland’s Valais canton to the Burgundy wine region. Often compared […]
Month: September 2021
Canton Valais and the Swiss Alps
After 34.6 kilometers/21.5 miles of darkness and ear popping through the Lötschberg Base Tunnel – which, when it was originally completed, was the longest railway tunnel in the world – […]
Gornergrat and the Matterhorn
The Gornergrat Bahn is Europe’s highest open air railway, stretching 9.3 kilometers/5.7 miles from the resort town of Zermatt at 1605 meters/5266 feet above sea level to its terminus at […]
Matterhorn, A Lot of Glaciers and the Longest Foot Suspension Bridge in the World
The Matterhorn is a big triangle shaped mountain. All year round it has snow on it. The tram to get up a mountain to see the Matterhorn and a lot […]
Longest Walking Suspension Bridge
On Sunday morning we got on the train for one stop to hike up to the longest suspension bridge in the world. We walked through the little town of Randa […]
Central Switzerland
It was a beautiful train ride from Innsbruck in Austria to the central Swiss city of Zürich: we passed through so many quaint mountain villages and some beautiful farms and […]
Innsbruck and the Austrian Alps
As we were walking out of the train station in central Innsbruck the first thing I saw was a couple a little younger than Lisa and I exiting the station […]
Downhill Go-Karts
On Wednesday morning we got up early to catch a tram to one of the many mountains. It was a really pretty hike up and we got to pet some […]
Munich
We weren’t expecting a lot from Munich: another city on our way west and a good way to break up our train journey into the mountains of Austria and Switzerland. […]
Everything in Munich
I am going to talk about two different things everybody: BMW Welt and Deutsches Museum. The BMW Welt had a lot of cool cars but the motorbikes were awesome, you […]
Prague
The words “new” and “old” have a bit of a different meaning in the centuries-old city of Prague. Our digs for our few days in Prague’s New Town – Nové […]
Prague’s Jewish Quarter
600 years ago the Jewish were kicked out of there city because they didn’t believe what the rulers did. Prague was one of the cities that didn’t get bombed in […]