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…
You just never know what you’re going to get when you open the door to your hotel room here. I’m not talking about the big hotel chains. Those rooms all meet their own minimum standards. It’s the smaller hotels in Europe that always seem to provide travelers — particularly Americans, I would guess — with…
When I boarded my train in Brig on the way to Lausanne, this was sitting on one of the other tracks. It was there when I arrived at the station and it was still there when I left on my train a half hour later. That restaurant/lounge car is in the middle of the train,…
I always thought it was just automatic here in Europe that your train was going to be on time. Wrong! Not today, anyway, because the TGV that I caught in Lausanne this morning was about 15 minutes late on its arrival into Dijon … not a big thing, but just enough time for me to…