Switzerland travel stories

Bern

The city of Bern sits on a small promontory carved out by a U-shaped bend in the Aare river. The result is a series of long narrow parallel cobblestone streets crowded by high contiguous buildings,...

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Gruyeres

At some indiscriminate point south of Bern, the exit signs on the autoroute stop reading 'Ausgang' and begin reading 'Sortie'. We found this rather exciting simply because our Frenc...

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Montreaux to Lausanne

After we left Gruyeres we went in search of more castles which brought us to the most visited in Switzerland: Chillon (1). Chillon sits in Lake Geneva (Lac Leman) just south of the resort town of M...

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Mustair

On Thursday morning, we left Venice and headed north into the Alps and the province of Trentino. This took us first through the Valpolicella wine region, and then into the Dolomite Mountain range. ...

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The Overnight Train To Budapest

My friends and I were backpacking through Europe. We were in Prague and we couldn't agree on our next course of action. We eventually decided that we would all split up and meet up in a few day...

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