I had an email today from a friend who’s planning a trip to Europe with his wife and there’s a lot of train travel involved, including both the Bernina Express and the Glacier Express. Each traverses some spectacularly beautiful Swiss countryside and are very much worth doing. I rode both trains probably 20 years ago…
Let us take a break from the nether world of politics and in particular from denizens like Jeff Flake and John Mica … and talk instead about two Swiss trains that are absolute musts for anyone who enjoys and appreciates scenic train rides: the Glacier Express and the Bernina Express. I rode both these trains…
I think the one train ride I remember as being the most spectacular was the Bernina Express, which we took from Tirano in Northern Italy across the Alps to the Swiss town of Chur. It’s a narrow gauge train because of the steep grades and sharp curves. And the pace is leisurely, which is really…
For years, I’ve had a dozen or so of the world’s more interesting or exotic train trips on my bucket list. So far I’ve managed to cross off several, marking them “done”. These include the Glacier Express and the Bernina Express in Switzerland, the two trans-continental trains in Australia, the Indian Pacific and the Ghan,…