Travel experiences, memories and stories about exploring this great planet of ours

Last year, while travelling in Switzerland, my travel companion and I reached the high, hillside town of Murren late in the afternoon.. must have been 4.30 p.m. or so. The fog had cleared up considerably in Murren to we could see a bit more of it. Anyway it turned out that accommodation was way too [...]

This is a photo essay in just one picture. It’s the train we took from Interlaken to Lauterbrunnen. Mt. Monch is in the background. Wow. I can’t believe I was there, hiking, just last summer.

The village itself was so tiny and village-ey.. Not that there weren’t any amenities. On the contrary. There were a number of nice looking restaurants, many hostels and inns, a bank, an internet cafe, a couple of supermarkets, two train stations (one normal and one for the alpine funicular), a bus stop.. all within a [...]

If you’re in Switzerland, one must-visit place when you’ve done all the touristy things is to visit the Jungfrau area. Interlaken is the train-station hub for visitng Eiger, Monch and Jungfrau and the surrounding mountains. The journey from Zurich to Interlaken was moderately scenic.. tantalising glimpses of mountains through the fog, mostly. Looked like there [...]

St. Gallen is a small, university town in northeastern Switzerland. It’s on the banks of Bodensee and borders both Austria and Germany – that’s how remote it is! The city center is a walkable distance from almost anywhere in St. Gallen, and it took us about 20 minutes to walk all around it. Some very [...]

The boyfriend and I went to Shaffhausen in Switzerland last spring, just as a day trip. We reached there at about 2 in the afternoon. Our tour bus people didn’t give us lunch that day and I was starving by that time. When we started walking around in that quaint little medieval town, my mind [...]

The Rhine Falls were splendid. not as high as I thought they’d be (*where* did Professor Moriarty throw Holmes down from, anyway?) but they’re really strong. There’s this rock thing right in the middle of the falls that a boat takes us right up to, then we take the staircase up to the top of [...]

We wandered a little, and walked along the bank of the Limmat river on perfect little cobblestone streets, saw some of the church spires and planned to go in later. But it started raining quite suddenly so we ran for shelter into the nearest church, and found out we’d wandered into the Fraumunster Kirche, the [...]

5:45 a.m. – Landed at Zurich Flughafen (airport), stiff and creaking. The first thought that entered my head when the boyfriend and I walked out into the airport was how completely deserted the place was. I mean, as a rule airports are always full of jet lagged people snoozing in chairs all over the place, [...]