Posts in Category: Switzerland
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Glacier Express from St. Moritz to Zermatt
In my last post from this trip to Switzerland with Adventures Abroad our group started our hiking portion of the itinerary with a bracing ramble in the Engadin Valley high above St. Moritz. Now it is time to enjoy one of the many exciting train trips that was one of the main attractions for signing […]
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Engadin Valley – Hiking Above St. Moritz
In the last post from this Adventures Abroad walking and hiking tour of Switzerland we took the train to St. Moritz and enjoyed a walk around this fabled resort town. We later paid a visit to the famous Heidi Hut and walked back down into St. Moritz from it. In this post we’ll undertake our […]
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St. Moritz – Home of Winter Sports
In the last post on this Adventures Abroad tour of Switzerland we walked the old city of Zurich which got things off to a great start for everybody. In this post we’ll relocate from Zurich to the legendary winter sports playground of St. Moritz and find out why it is considered to be the place […]
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Zurich – Walking the Old City
This is my sixth post from a recent visit to Switzerland and the first in which we meet up with our fellow Adventures Abroad travellers to start the tour of this wonderful country. We will also meet our guide and friend Victor Romagnoli with whom we have travelled many times. This post will feature a […]
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Kunstmuseum Basel – A Must Visit Gallery
In the last post Alison and I explored the city of Basel and found it to be a wonderful place to discover while walking along both banks of the Rhine River. It truly is a much under appreciated Swiss destination by tourists who think only of the alpine regions on their journeys here. In this […]
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Basel – Amazing City on the Rhine
We spent the first two days of our visit to Switzerland in the city of Geneva, home to many international institutions including the United Nations, Red Cross and World Trade Organization. It is now time to move on to another great Swiss city. Basel is often overlooked as a tourist destination because it is not […]
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Geneva – World’s Most International City?
In the first post from Geneva Alison and spent most of it walking around the area known as The Old Town where figures such as John Calvin and Jean-Jacques Rousseau were at home. In this post we’ll go wider afield and visit or at least try to visit some of the famous international organizations that […]
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Old Town Geneva – A Walk Through History
My first post from Switzerland was a compendium of reasons for signing onto the Adventures Abroad Hiking tour of Switzerland. However, since Alison and I had never spent any time in this country other than at airports, we decided to get there a few days before and include the cities of Geneva and Basel on […]
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Switzerland with Adventures Abroad
Alison and I have just returned from our latest overseas excursion, a two week walking/hiking tour of Switzerland with Adventures Abroad which was quite a departure from our previous trip on a passenger/freighter in French Polynesia. The two trips could not have been more different in every aspect but one, we loved them both. What […]