Blogs from Gimmelwald, North-West, Switzerland, Europe - page 3

God love the Swiss....arrived in the arv into Lucerne...spent a little time looking around before heading to base camp at Latuerbraunen (or something like that!!) had a great downstairs bar called the Bombshelter which was in fact...a nuclear bomb shelter...the swiss despite their neutrality have one of the most highly trained and ready armies in the world...... good knives too!!!! the next day a few of the boys and i hired mounatin bikes and went riding....have to say....must nearly be the best day on tour...after cable carring it half way up a mountian.....pushing them the rest of the day...having a gorgeous lunch about 3000m up.....we found our path home to be virtually suicidal....laughed cried and screamed all the way to the bottom......saw some enormous stacks..(well done matty king and frank)...only had a small one myself.....but great ... read more

Murren, Switzerland Kate Gamble Dickman is my go-to travel girl. A friend from high school, she’s traveled extensively throughout Europe and has been spot on when I need some advice on where the heck to go when “I want a place where I can cook”, or “somewhere near the water”, or “I want a place with outdoor exercise, not hot and crowded and I can read a book”. She had mentioned the Swiss Alps in one of her emails, so with her description, and the fact that I’ve always wanted a Bernese Mountain Dog, here I am in the Berner Oberland. In this small town (about 500 people) called Murren you can hike, hang out and drink a beer outside while enjoying the scenery and reading your book. This ranks in my top three places on ... read more

Well let me just start off by saying I am glad we didnt start out going to Switzerland otherwise our entire trip would have failed in comparison, it was so incredible!!! Getting there from Venice.... well lets just say throwing up 10 times on the flight to London was more fun. Ok no it wasnt that bad, but after our day trip to Verona, we took a night train to Venice. It was second class, and 6 beds in a REALLY small compartment, three on each side. We were sharing with 3 other Canadians our age, so that was good. I volunteered to take the top bunk and regretted my decision almost immediately. It was cramped and 20 degrees hotter up there than the bunk below me. The whole night I kept putting my hand down ... read more

We are going to ask you to take a moment, close your eyes, and visualize all of the stereotypes that you have about Switzerland. Now open your eyes, sit back, and be amazed as we illustrate them to you in pictures. ... read more

Switzerland is a trip man..The scenic beatuy is the amazing thing i've ever seen anywhere. I headed up into the alps past interlaken and took cable cars around to different villages. The best of these is the 150 person town of Gimmelwald. Here you see villages living like they always have raising cattle and growing hay. The views are unbeatable and the swiss are very nice people. On the other hand prices are so high in this country it's actually comical. Like coffie and a muffen costs 7 US dollars or so. A half liter soda is 3 dollars. The answer: don't buy anything and just enjoy the view.... read more