Geo: 47.0457, 8.30824Today we slept in a bit, had our free breakfast at the hotel (most hotels in Europe offer it) and took the city bus to Hergiswil to the glass factory. One of the original glass manufacturers in Europe, we watched them make things out of glass the old fashioned way. Mom tried glass blowing herself and she's carrying around the glass globe she made. She wants to get it home. We took the bus back into town. The train would have done this in 10 minutes but the track was out of order this week. Then we walked around the old town. The pastries here are fantastic! My favorite, strudel of all kinds, and it is everywhere. We walked across the Chapel Bridge, an old wooden bridge spanning the end of Lake Lucerne.We returned ... read more

Geo: 46.6886, 7.86354Since we have both been falling asleep on the trains or any other time we sit down, we skipped the 6:30am train to the 14000' Jungfraujoch and slept in till 9. Took off to railway and found out that trip had sold out an hour earlier. So we decided to go to the Schiltorn, the 12000' restaurant where they filmed the 007 movie "In Her Majesty's Secret Service". To get there, we went by train, cogwheel, funicular and tramway. It too was in the clouds so the view wasn't good from the very top but beautiful most of the way up. We had soup and salad in the revolving restaurant at the top. We walked though the village of Murren and took pictures of the village and parasailers above usWhen we got back to ... read more

Geo: 46.0193, 7.74603We left our hotel this morning at 5:30am so to be sure to catch our train to Geneva at 7:06. The desk clerk at the hotel arranged to have a cab pick us up and I gave him the instructions. I should have looked at my papers more closely but I rattled off Gare d Nord and the cab driver questioned but took us there anyway. 30 euros later we arrived but couldn't locate our train. That's because it was in St Lazare. 15 more euros fixed that. Good thing we had plenty of time and Euros. Rode the TGV and that was fun and fast too.Transferred to two more trains, one which we only had 6 minutes to go down a ramp, across to another platform and back up, I'm pushing all the ... read more

Geo: 48.8567, 2.35099We got up late. Too tired. We missed Segway trip but that didn't break my heart though. Haha. Then we went to the Eiffel Tower. We walked past at least 1000 people cause we got special advanced tickets...great for getting on but when we got to 2nd level elevator we were in with the 10,000 of people so we opt to just go back down,,when we got to the bottom we met our first gypsy trying to get money out of me. Al saved me from that one..we got on metro and went to mont maitre for some shopping and check out funnicular. I bought souvenirs. We then took metro back to hotel. We found a grocery store and bought dinner to eat at the park. Then back to hotel to just sleep as ... read more

Geo: 37.7792, -122.42Up this morning at 4:30am for a quick run to the shop and back by 7. Did some last minute organizing, garbage cans down from the street. Forgot my Euros for the airport so we'll need to get them in Paris. The super shuttle guy was a beauty. He was afraid to drive down the driveway but once he got going, he drove 90 miles an hour. So fast he missed the 238 freeway and hwy 92. We took the scenic route.It's almost 2pm and we're getting a sandwich and salad at the airport. $20? We drink water. So far uneventful through check-in and security. We had "Priority Boarding" with our American Express card so we went to our own line with no one in it. Saved at least an hour! Now to kill ... read more