“The imp of mischief is a restless sprite.” – Washington Irving I usually try to write for the blog as we go -but it didn’t work out that way this time. I’m playing catch-up from home. One interesting result of… Read More ›
The Glacier Express and St. Moritz The Glacier Express is something I’d heard about over the years and had thought that someday I might have a chance to experience it. They call it the “world’s slowest express train” because it… Read More ›
Lausanne Even though Lausanne was mainly chosen as a repositioning stop for ongoing train connections – I had high hopes that we’d enjoy our short time there. It was OK, but one afternoon of exploring was more than enough for… Read More ›
Time for a time trial… We walked out of the hotel around 10:00 AM to go see what might be going on. The elves were busy overnight and had gotten everything set up -aside from the start booth, which was… Read More ›
Evian les Bains We walked to the Mulhouse train station in the morning prepared for rain, since it was predicted, and it was one of those drizzly mornings where the sky keeps you guessing. We managed to avoid getting wet… Read More ›
Le Tour! I think our goal for the day was just to see what we could see and not get trampled! I’m kidding! -it wasn’t that bad. The start area for Stage 14 was in a park on the other… Read More ›
Where the plot thickened: Belfort, France It wasn’t until after I had nailed down all the plans and bookings for this trip that I noticed that Stage 13 of the Tour was finishing in Belfort, France -a nearby town to… Read More ›
The plot thickens We said goodbye to Lucerne and boarded the train for Mulhouse, France. This interesting sculpture was in Basel, Switzerland where we changed trains. The train ride was a short trip of about two hours. Our hotel… Read More ›
Mt. Pilatus On our second day, we had to get up early for a trip to Mt. Pilatus, which is a nearby mountain peak – 6,500-ish feet up. There were a lot of moving parts to our plan for the… Read More ›
Lucerne I think we’ve been getting a little too nonchalant about travel these days. It’s been a long time since we’ve really had any travel drama so we have forgotten to fret about what could go wrong before we… Read More ›