Month: October 2009

Europe

Montreux and Home

08/10/2009

We had a leisurely morning on October 6 looking around Interlaken. There were a number of shops that sold very elaborate cuckoo clocks and we debated whether we would like to get one one to bring home. In the end, we decided that they didn’t really fit into our house and that we were cuckoo […]

Europe

Interlaken

06/10/2009

Yesterday, we had a leisurely morning and a walk around the harbour on Lake Geneva before walking the 300 metres, or so, around to the station to catch our 12:55 Golden Pass Panorama train to Interlaken. We started by following the same route as we took to Mt Pilatus, but then turned left to head […]

Europe

Mt Pilatus

04/10/2009

We arrived in Lucerne, Switzerland, yesterday afternoon after a long trip from Venice. We had almost two hours in which to change trains in Milan on the way and it was quite difficult in a crowded station which was undergoing renovations and not a place to sit anywhere. What a change to get on a […]

Europe

Venice

03/10/2009

We have spent the last two days in Venice and I am sitting on a train to Milan, waiting to pull out from Leonardo de Vinci Station on the grand canal. It has been very humid for the last couple of days and it has just started to drizzle with light rain. I hope that […]

Europe

Leaving Slovenia

03/10/2009

We left Slovenia on Tuesday after visiting the Karst caves at Postojne. We reached the main chamber on a little train that travelled about 2 kms into the mountain through a series of halls filled with stalactites, stalagmites and grand columns. We spent about 90 minutes wandering through the cave system on firm concreted walkways. […]