Tag Archives: Bernina Express
Euro 24 Match Day 19 – England v Switzerland
Spain & France are into the semi finals. Can England join them? England London has some iconic bridges over the River Thames. Everybody knows Tower Bridge of course, but there are other notable structures too. Switzerland Switzerland has some vertigo inducing bridges, especially on the rail network. Landwasser Viaduct Brusio Viaduct Bridges Near Zermatt Landwasser […]
Euro 24 Match Day 15 – Switzerland v Italy
The knockout stage gets underway with a match between neighbouring countries. Italy A few years ago Mrs Wilbur and I did a train tour. In Italy we started in Bologna, moved on to Venice, Verona & Lake Como, before ending in Tirano on the Swiss border. Switzerland We then took the famed Bernina Express through […]
Euro 2024 Match Day 2 – Hungary v Switzerland
Continuing my spotlight on countries competing in the current big football tournament. Hungary I have only ever visited Budapest in Hungary, though I have travelled by train through the country to Prague & Bucharest. My picture is slightly unusual as it does not show any of the Hungarian capital’s prized sights. It is a scan […]
Euro 2020 Match Day 6 – Italy v Switzerland
More connected nations pit their wits against each other in the final match of the day in Rome. Italy A few years ago we undertook a train tour of Italy & Switzerland. One of the journeys was Venice to Verona where we stayed one night. An interesting compact city on the river Adige, Italy’s second […]
Sunday Photo – The Bernina Express, Switzerland
I love this photo taken from the Bernina Express in Switzerland. The wide open spaces and the feeling of adventure are things we have really missed these past few months and desperately hope will be attainable again soon.
Monday Morning Blues – Bernina Express, Switzerland
Today’s Monday morning blues picture comes from a fabulous train tour of Italy & Switzerland that I stitched together in 2016. The Bernina Express travelled from Tirano on the Swiss/Italian border up to Chur. A fabulous memory and the perfect antidote for a miserable Monday morning.
European Train Tour #6 – Switzerland
The concluding European train tour of my series sees us in Switzerland, a trip we undertook in 2016. If the earth’s creator had been a train fanatic and had decided to build the ideal setting for his giant train set, he could have constructed Switzerland for this purpose. Brooding mountains & great lakes, sweeping bends, […]
The Bernina Express
We arrived in the Italian border town of Tirano by train from Como in order to enter Switzerland on the famous Bernina Express. The whole town seemed to exist for the railway and the majority of people who frequented the place on that mid-June day were grey-haired German or Japanese tourists in identical tour operator […]
