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Just finishing up breakfast and about to depart for the 45 minute trip to the Munich airport. The Advocat Hotel has a wonderful breakfast buffet as you see. I found the small shop of the company that actually made Marlow's leather pants and was succesful in getting suspenders that I hope he will like. AndContinue reading “Departure from Munich”

Today I am shopping for suspenders for Marlow's lederhosen and will be going to the opera this evening. In between I have a short list of sites to visit. Most museums seem to be closed on Monday so that made it a bit easier to allocate my limited time here. Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile

After three days of constant train travel I feel overloaded with visual stimuli – as if I’ve been watching a three-day long silent movie – and listening to the audience speaking through the entire film but not understanding a word they’re speaking! Since this trip is outside of Switzerland, I had to purchase the ticketContinue reading “The Final Train!”

Here is a view looking south from Interlaken towards the Jungfrau region. As yu can see, it is still overcast so the Alps are not visible. It is only 9 am so hopefully the clouds will lift soon!Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile

This is the route of the scenic train route I will take on Sunday morning. It actually consists of four different trains. I start in Visp where I will again take the train under the Alps to Spiez. There I will change to a train to Interlaken. And then another change in Interlaken to theContinue reading “Sunday – Visp to Zurich then Zurich to Munich”

Saturday Morning following the “Glacier Express” route – Chur to Visp takes about five hours. [googlemaps https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&t=h&s=AARTsJp9edUmPxtzoQEQSdko3UzIrieorQ&msa=0&msid=115335483733204252973.000465203bd638b22356d&ll=46.498392,8.731384&spn=0.907527,1.757813&z=9&output=embed” frameborder=”0″ height=”480″ scrolling=”no” width=”640″>View Larger Map Saturday Afternoon from Visp to Montreux (1.5 hour on fast train) then Golden Pass train route from Montreux to Spiez. The route from Spiez back to Visp was in a tunnel underContinue reading “Maps of Saturday travel”

Make your own muesli at breakfast – starting with grinding your own blend of oats, rye and wheat!Glacier Express train from Chur to Visp via AndermattNear the Olberalp Pass 6,670 ft.The route of the Golden Pass train from Montreaux to Gstaad The Golden Pass refers to a valley running along the northern side of theContinue reading “Photos from Saturday”

I originally planned on taking the train to Zermatt this afternoon. But I've already seen a lot of the magnificent alps so I decided to take advantage of the flexibility that a train pass provides. So I'm en route to Gstaad via Montreux (above photo of Lake Geneva) and then back to Visp for theContinue reading “Saturday Afternoon – Lake Geneva and Gstaad”

Today I'm travelling West across the alps towards Zermatt taking a variety of trains. We just passed through Andermatt, (close by where this photo was taken) where I spent a week after high school participating in a mountain climbing class. Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile