Switzerland travel stories
Part II: Lucerne, the "City of Lights"? In addition to writing about sightseeing at Lucerne's lake and Alps in his1880 A Tramp Abroad Mark Twain reported on its city sights. To enjoy them as fully as possible I embarked on a walking tour set up by Luzern...
Part I: Lucerne in the Sky With Diamonds Mark Twain, who died 100 years ago, is primarily remembered as the fictional chronicler of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn's Mississippi River adventures. But Twain (born Samuel Langhorne Clemens) is also one of the best...
After a quick lesson, I waded into the water and tried my hand at this not all together unsurprisingly difficult task.
I shall never again take for granted that morning latte, late night bowl of cereal, or tall cold glass of the sacred liquid with warm chocolate chip cookies.
Just a few steps from the train station, sat my hotel in Lucerne, Switzerland - Hotel Continental Park. The entrance is on a side street just steps away from the tracks. The lobby is simple and inviting and the front desk staff could not be any more friendly. The hall...
After getting off of a seven hour overnight flight to Zurich, I was quite nervous about finding my way to Lucerne. All I knew was that I needed to catch a train. I asked at the info desk where the train station was and I crossed the street and entered the building as...
I enjoyed a very nice Business Class flight from New York to Zurich last night. The flight attendants were lovely. The food was fine and the seats laid perfectly flat. You can't ask for much more than that. They had good movies, though, not massive in number. And the...
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Graubünden in Switzerland has mountains, valleys and Romansh one of the four official languages of Switzerland. I had the chance to find out more at a recent travel trade meeting in Los Angeles. In this interview with Gieri of Graubünden Tourism, we get the lowdown on...
