Monthly Archives: June 2019

The old part of Strasbourg is dominated by the cathedral, Notre Dame. The old city is basically an island surrounded by the river L’ill. The cathedral dates from the 13th century and like most churches we have visited was built … Continue reading →

We were to take a bus to Bern to have a tour of Bern and meet our ship. However, due to commercial traffic our ship could not make it to Bern. Instead we had to skip the walking tour and … Continue reading →

Our day started with a 2 hour walk through the old part of Lucerne. We passed a number of watch shops – watches in the windows generally priced upwards of 1000 SF. The Asians apparently go there first and buy … Continue reading →

On Thursday we boarded the Glacier express for the first part of our journey to Lucerne. We transferred to buses at Andermatt. We passed more mountains, mountain meadows, villages, vineyards and drove beside a mountain stream which feeds into the … Continue reading →

We left Milan on the train for Zermatt in the morning. The train took us north of Como and into Switzerland. Where we started to see mountains, mountain streams, Swiss style houses We changed trains in Brig and when we … Continue reading →

We took the train to Milan on Sunday. A little confusion as usual but basically a smooth trip. After leaving our bags at the hotel we headed off to see the Duomo. We had an experience with the subway and … Continue reading →

Our last day in Como and we had a relaxing day of wandering the streets so far unexplored. A couple of churches, more cafes and lots of narrow picturesque alleys to walk down. There were a few stores with colourful … Continue reading →

Well my posts from June 13 & 14 ended up elsewhere on this blog. If you are interested in seeing them click on the search button at the top of the page and type in June 13. Sorry for the … Continue reading →

Yesterday I mentioned the high waters. Today the lake overflowed. From our room at 3:00 pm this was the scene At 6 pm it looked like this and we can see the water rushing in. We understand there have been … Continue reading →

After a lovely breakfast in the dining room at our hotel we decided to cancel our car. Instead we took the ferry to Nesso to have lunch there. Arrived at Nesso to find this This information point was staffed by … Continue reading →