An American in Switzerland – Day Ten

Well, our adventure was nearly at an end. We did a ton of traveling on Sunday, and would be doing even more on Monday. Our flight was scheduled to leave at 10:30 AM from Zurich, and we would be arriving home in Houston at 6:30 PM on the same day. Cool, huh? Wouldn’t it be [...]

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An American in Switzerland – Day Nine

We got up super early to catch the second train out from Interlaken to… dum da dum… Jungfrau – the highest point in Europe that can be reached by train. Yep, we were going to be over 13,000 feet above sea level at the top of the Swiss Alps. Fabulous. It was a pretty long [...]

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An American in Switzerland – Things I’ve learned so far (part 2)

All of the roads in the towns (here in northern Switzerland at least) are twisting winding curving things, easy to get lost in. Even the buildings aren’t in a line. It is really neat.
People bring their dogs (and on one occasion so far, their cat) with them everywhere! I think it is really cool. Some [...]

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An American in Switzerland – Day Eight

Awoke this morning to huge snow clumps falling past our window – just lovely. Showered and took the time to catch up on some more travel logs, and then headed to breakfast downstairs. Returned to the room, took far too long to pack, and lugged our two suitcases, duffle, toiletries bag and two laptop bags [...]

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An American in Switzerland – Day Seven

I managed to get out of bed and moving, and ate a super fast cold breakfast in the tavern before dashing off to the train station. I keep misgauging how easy it is to get around here, so I had time to buy a bottle of water at the kiosk before getting to the meeting [...]

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An American in Switzerland – Day Six

Got up when Heath did, and got directions to his workplace, where I was supposed to go later in the afternoon. I wanted a hot breakfast for once, and decided to get a quiche, and maybe a sweater or two if I could find them really cheaply (I didn’t quite pack enough clothes, and even [...]

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An American in Switzerland – Day Five

Awoke this morning to a winter wonderland – it had snowed all night, and would snow all day, too. The snow doesn’t slow anyone down here like it does in parts of the US. I can hear cars and motorbikes whizzing along at top speeds on the main street near our hotel. Trains were all [...]

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An American in Switzerland – Day Four

I’m finding that some of the best food I’ve gotten has been from street vendors. Case in point, at the moment I’m eating a deviiiine zucchini squash quiche that has a few spicy red bell peppers in it. For dessert? I have a berry custard served in a quiche shell (I believe it might be [...]

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An American in Switzerland – Day Three

Exploring Winterthur… So, my first day on my own, and I accidentally overslept. Heath left for class, and I just zonked back out until 10:00 AM local time, missing the free breakfast. I showered and dressed, and spent the morning wandering around the town center in Winterthur. I checked out shops and even stopped in [...]

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An American in Switzerland – Day Two

Sunday morning we got up at a somewhat decent hour and had a cozy breakfast downstairs. We got ready and while we were waiting for the next train to Zurich, we bought and ate a sampling of chocolates from the mini-mall underneath the train station (the cappuccino truffles were the bomb!). After catching our train [...]

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Things I’ve learned so far (part 1)

Yes, Switzerland is mostly very very clean. The trains I’ve been on so far are immaculate. The stations have granite and marble tile.
Graffiti is not fined, and you see spots of it here and there in the big cities, but it isn’t as prolific as, say, New York City, or Los Angeles, or any of [...]

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An American in Switzerland – Day One

No internet at the hotel, so I’m updating from a cool basement cafe called The Coal Mine for now.
We last left our intrepid wanderer in the Newark airport, chatting away right up to the point when my battery died. I wasn’t bored for very long at all; just a few minutes later they started boarding.
A [...]

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