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Count down...

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 | By christinasandra | Views [321] | Comments [8]

...9 8 7 6 5 days to go...... soon we're off to Toronto, the first destination of our journey. On our page we will keep you up to date on our trip with photos & maybe some comments ;-) Hope you will enjoy... best regards, sandra & christina ... Read more >

Tags: Greetings

Rome Antics

Sat, 1 Dec 2007 | By andrewalex | Views [358] | Comments [6]

Our last few days in Rome, were very similar to our last few days in Paris. They were of course precipitated by a strike. The French may have invented the strike which lasts forever, but the Italians mastered the strike that hurts ... Read more >

Tags: planes trains & automobiles

We have arrived safely in Sweden

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 | By besoka | Views [232] | Comments [6]

Well here we finally are.  After about 19 hours of relatively comfortable flying spread over 2 days I'm sitting in the upstairs bedroom of a gingerbread house in a village in a dell in fairytale country.  It's snowing outside and all the countryside ... Read more >

Hiking in the Jungfrau region

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 | By mel_mel | Views [479] | Comments [4]

What an amazing couple of days. We’ve been hiking all around the Jungfrau region near Interlaken and seen some unbelievable views. It is such a beautiful area, I feel like four days is just not enough. Yesterday we went on a completely excessive ... Read more >

Sky Dive Interlaken

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 | By devinashley | Views [305] | Comments [4]

Disclaimer, this keyboard switches the y's and z's... Its a Swiss kezboard, Im not going to bother fixing it.  Sorrz also for the mispleed words and evidence of haste, Im on a timelimit. So, Katie and I had an extra daz somewhere and I suggested we ... Read more >

Comienza la aventura

Fri, 7 Nov 2008 | By eburguera | Views [198] | Comments [4]

(Check out the English version below) Manana empieza nuestro viaje a Chile!!! Salimos de Winterthur a eso de las 6pm, y tras una parada en Madrid, nos esperan 14 horas de vuelo hasta Santiago de Chile. Una vez en Santiago, aun tenemos otro vuelo ... Read more >

October fun

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 | By vien_and_shaz | Views [445] | Comments [3]

We met up with Pri, Gabs and Anil one day at Oktoberfest (Munich beer festival) and Des, Loz and Mel the next. Needless to say many steins of beer were consumed with lots of general silliness and singing of German songs we didn’t know the words to.... Read more >

Tags: Lost!

Space Age Switzerland

Sat, 7 Apr 2007 | By jmbworldpilgrimage | Views [425] | Comments [3]

Smart cars, cutting edge solar and earth core heating systems, USB swiss army knives, and talking car GPS....these are a few of my favortie Swiss things. Our latest travels have found us in the lush, green hills of Laupen, Switzerland...near Zurich..... Read more >

Tags: The Great Outdoors

I love Basel

Thu, 8 May 2008 | By queenofbums | Views [169] | Comments [3]

I guess I should update... I would rather with pictures, but I can't get them on-line just yet. Basel is wonderful.  But it's more a place to live, than to visit.  I'm not really into going to a whole lot of museums (or paying for them)... and I don't ... Read more >

Tags: basel, tinguely, switzerland

Jetlag in Luzern

Fri, 4 Sep 2009 | By almost_italian | Views [147] | Comments [3]

Had an uneventful flight until we landed in Zurich and we fishtailed down the runway!  finally worked out the ticket system and three minutes before departure, our train was cancelled.  Managed to get a train HB only to miss the first connection to ... Read more >

Byebye

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 | By tumal | Views [26] | Comments [3]

my last night in CH! im packing the last things...i hope i didnt forget something important. by the way: heres the link to sebastien zürchers homepage. he will be travelling with me until march 2010. http://www.tea-time.ch/ next news will be ... Read more >

Swiss Triste

Sat, 23 Jun 2007 | By jakeandgenny | Views [585] | Comments [2]

Say that five times fast, we dare you. Ok, cut it out. With a bit of extra time on our hands, Gen and I decided to swing down to Switzerland for a little romantic alps action. Our destination: Bern, Switzerland, home of glockenshpiels (sp?) ... Read more >

Tags: Mountains

Swtizerland Rocks

Wed, 7 Feb 2007 | By disco | Views [463] | Comments [2]

After Prague I went to Switzerland. I had two friends, Pascal and Sven who lived near Basel which is right at the border between Switzerland, Germany and France, and Sven offered me a place to stay at his house in Gempen. Turned out to be the best ... Read more >

Tags: On the Road

Leaving Home

Tue, 2 Oct 2007 | By baba | Views [417] | Comments [2]

Mittlerweile ist die Wohnung geräumt und übergeben. Ich hätte ja kaum geglaubt, dass mein ganzer Kram in den Keller passt, aber's hätten sogar noch ein paar Kisten mehr Platz gefunden. Nach dem Pack- & Putzendspurt bleiben mir nun noch zwei Tage, ... Read more >

Tags: Packing & Gadgets

Post Tenebras Lux

Sat, 15 Sep 2007 | By grifnizzle | Views [383] | Comments [2]

Geneva.  a city of reformation in a pluralistic country that implements with integrity the ideals it holds dear.  and you can feel it.  I generally try to keep two fingers on a city's cultural pulse when I go, but living here, and working with Earle, ... Read more >

Tags: Culture

the Wassenbergs et al

Sun, 9 Sep 2007 | By grifnizzle | Views [287] | Comments [2]

Lying flat on the trampoline, time moves in slow motion. They soar into the air on top and all around me, each to their own rhythm, each with their own stunts. my body bubbles with them.  I laugh and I shriek, but I trust all along.  Theyve done this ... Read more >

Tags: Family

Zurich

Sat, 31 Mar 2007 | By chanty520 | Views [269] | Comments [2]

We are getting ready to leave zurich, switzerland...a gorgeous big city, the prettiest yet. you will get the idea when u see the pictures. we walked around the little town after we checked into our hostel last night...we stayed on the 7th floor above ... Read more >

Tags: Culture

About as exciting as Swiss banking

Sat, 2 Aug 2008 | By mel_mel | Views [219] | Comments [2]

Yet again, I have squat to report. Um….we’ve been lazy and sat on our butts for a couple of days. Clearly, this has been bloody fantastic! Spent one day walking around Zurich looking at the overwhelming number of sights and interesting things, ……to ... Read more >

Going down under

Sat, 6 Oct 2007 | By diana-c-buff | Views [199] | Comments [2]

Hallo! Es geht noch 21/2 Wochen bis ich abhebe nach Australien und Neuseeland. Ich bin schon sehr gespannt und aufgeregt auf die Reise! Heya! It still takes 21/2 weeks until I take off to Australia and New Zealand. I am already very nosy and excited ... Read more >

Tags: The Planning Phase

Warm Up

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 | By baba | Views [136] | Comments [2]

Sieben Tage konnte ich mich bereits auf das anstehende Abenteuer vorbereiten. Der Drahtesel hält, die Beine auch... bei herbstlichen Verhältnissen sammelte ich ein paar Tausend Höhenmeter, erst mit vollbepacktem Bike, wegen Regens dann auch noch zu ... Read more >

Lauterbrunnen - Tuesday 21st July 2009

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 | By ange_turls | Views [123] | Comments [2]

After being so excited about going to Switzerland, it was raining and the whole valley was covered in clouds. We then found out that the weather had been shit for a while and we were absolutely shattered. We were starting to wonder what we were going ... Read more >

Cheese and Chocolates

Mon, 6 Jul 2009 | By copperowl | Views [100] | Comments [2]

The flight from London to Geneva is about 1 hour 20 minutes. Security and check in plus immigration adds another 2 hours; the train to the airport outside London adds another hour or so and the Tube to the train station ... Add that the Internet tells ... Read more >

Soaring through Switzerland

Sat, 22 Dec 2007 | By sean_and_liana | Views [1057] | Comments [1]

Another train journey, another blog entry. Today’s train takes us from The beautiful Interlaken, Switzerland , to Amsterdam via Frankfurt . At this point we have just boarded after 2 hours in the freezing cold at Frankfurt station, so my fingers ... Read more >

Tags: Snow

Vevey (Switzerland)

Tue, 1 May 2007 | By nigelb | Views [924] | Comments [1]

Laura writes: We stayed in Vevey / Montreux for only four to five days, so we didn't get to see too much, especially since we didn't get very nice weather while we were there. At least we did see the Castle of Chillon which is the most preserved ... Read more >

Tags: adventures

Expo de Coss

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 | By steph | Views [348] | Comments [1]

Not going to Switzerland while I was in Europe would have probably meant that my family would have put a contract on my head. A risk I wasn’t willing to take, especially since I love being there. Furthermore, the Expo de Coss happened to start ... Read more >

Tags: People


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