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Schloss Hegi

Posted in Switzerland 2008-2009, tagged castle, hegi, schloss, schloss hegi, switzerland, Winterthur on November 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »

In the town of Winterthur, there are two castles. The more well-known is Schloss Kybourg. It is a bit confusing to get there by public transportation, so while it is on our list of places to check out, we’ve not exactly been there yet. A fun little castle that is very easy to get to [...]

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Castles and Palaces

Posted in Ireland/Scotland/England, Switzerland 2008-2009, tagged austria, castle, castles, chateau, chateaux, england, germany, ireland, schloss, Scotland, spain, switzerland on June 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »

We stumbled across an article from a travel website naming the top 10 castles in the world. We’d only been to two on the list – Neuschwanstein in Germany and Chateau de Chillon in Switzerland. But it got us thinking – what would our top-ten list be? And how many castles have we been to? [...]

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Rapperswil

Posted in Switzerland 2008-2009, tagged al fresco, castle, lake zurich, polish heritage, rapperswil, rapperswil polish museum, switzerland, Zurichsee on June 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Again, I’m still behind with posting update… In April, we took a day to visit Rapperwil, towards the southern end of Lake Zürich (Zürichsee). The train ride from Zürich to Rapperswil is really lovely, following the lake through most of the trip (there is an alternate train route that goes through the country-side). We went [...]

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