Blogs from Chur, South-East, Switzerland, Europe

Am Sonntag frühstückte ich in einem Konditorei-Café, weil mein preiswertes Hotel kein solches anbot. Daher ist es ja so billig (also relativ). Ich bestellte Latte Macchiato und ein Bircher Müsli bevor ich mit dem Auto und bei Sonnenschein die Fahrt nach Chur fortsetzte. Dort spazierte ich durch die Altstadt, deren Attraktionen aus mehreren Tore und einer Kirche bestehen. Die Stadt ist aber kein herausragendes touristisches Ziel. Von dort fuhr ich weiter nach Norden, bevor ich in östlicher Richtung durch den österreichischen Arlbergtunnel, das Inntal und an Garmisch Partenkirchen vorbei schließlich München erreichte. Im Loisachtal wird dabei noch der Kramertunnel gebaut, den ich mir nach Fertigstellung vielleicht 2024 ansehen werde. Ob ich das dann mit einer Fahrt zum Kloster St. Johann in Graubünden verbinde, weiß ich im Moment noch nicht.... read more

Moving on to another lake, Wallensee. Or we had intended to anyway. Not a long drive just following Lake Lucerne along the first part of the Northern bank and then heading back up towards Zug then to the bottom of Lake Zurich. From there we used the motorway and it was quite busy, especially being a Sunday, but a pleasant drive. Some of the scenery is spectacular driving along a lake or valley with mountains rising sheer on either side. In Switzerland we have a motorway sticker in the windscreen. Pretty expensive and we had to buy two, one for the motorhome and one for Smart Car but it means there are no toll booths. At least I don’t need to risk doing myself a nasty hanging out of the motorhome window trying to keep reaching ... read more

Change of country today. So its auf Wiedersehen to lovely Austria and Gruß Gott to Switzerland. A very scenic route was planned for today’s drive and incredibly scenic it was indeed. No motorways though our road followed the motorway for much of the way. Due West from Innsbruck along some pretty roads, mountains either side but we were following the river valley so the road was pretty straight and flat. There were lots of motorbikes on the road with us as well as plenty of cyclists but no trucks. Assume trucks are banned from the roads on Sunday as in France. At Landeck we started to climb, and climb again as we were going over the famous Arlberg Pass. Using the main, original road, not through the very long tunnel. A brilliant drive indeed with some ... read more

Friday, Sept. 13 This was a “repositioning” day. I was able to sleep in a little later than usual, and then hit the buffet breakfast. This was not one of those Hampton Inn freebies; it was supposed to be pretty special. They eat unusual things for breakfast in Europe. Since it was Munich, they served these special breakfast sausages that were part of our “food education” tour last night. These sausages are white, and they're made of pork, veal, and parsley. They are in a casing which you don't eat, and they are served with sweet mustard. They also eat cold sliced meat and cheese along with crusty bread of different types. They had a section of sliced vegetables and canned fruit. Then there were the different kinds of granola. They also had granola that had ... read more

Hello Blog readers, We are back from our day trip to Chur, Switzerland to visit Gloria's cousins Anita and Gaby. It was a pleasant journey with only one train change in Basel. Basel is a city that incorporates 3 countries. France, Switzerland and Germany so you have to depart the French train, walk through the Zoll ( border crossing) because Switzerland is not in the "European Union" and board a Swiss train (10 minute walk) It didn't start out to well as we needed to be at the station here in France at 7:25 AM. We were there in enough time only to be told that there were track construction and the train connection would "NOT BE POSSIBLE" as they say. But we could catch the 7:02 train. So we run to the platform where we ... read more