Zermatt is one of the cleanest cities that you will come across and that is done on purpose. No gasoline powered cars are allowed in the city, only small electric vehicles and horsedrawn carriages. Seriously. You even have to park your car in the next town and then ride the train into Zermatt in order [...]

Walking off the train in Lucerne or any new city for that matter is a bit like opening a fortune cookie in that you don’t know what you might get. You can prepare ahead of time by reading what guidebooks have to offer, visiting websites, and viewing photos online but doing that eliminates the joy [...]

Taking the bullet train from Paris to London through the Chunnel has been one of those uncompleted items on my to-do list even since seeing Mission:Impossible. The train is as comfortable as the Geneva-Paris train and just like in the movie, you lose cellphone reception for ~45 minutes while under the English Channel. Top speed [...]

About halfway through my month-long European vacation, I took the TGV (train) from Geneva to Paris to visit a new friend who lives there and also to continue onto London to do a little photo/video work. I am becoming more and more a fan of traveling by train when in Europe since it is comfortable, [...]

Little did I know that there was an Ice Climbing World Cup and that this event is held in Switzerland every year and about an hour drive from Grimentz. It is held at night in the little town of Saas-Fee and is constructed in the center of a parking garage. Yes, it sounds odd but [...]

Visiting Lausanne in late January may not give one the best sense of how beautiful this city and region can be but when the sun comes out things change. When I first stepped off the train from Bern, the sky was still overcast but was quickly dissolving and allowing the sun to peak through. Now [...]

Just a 45 minute train ride north from Bern lies an ancient town nestled against the Aare River with the Weissenstein Jura mountains behind it, Solothurn. I probably would not have found this town without it being recommended to me by my friend, Sarah. Her friend loves this town and would be happy if I [...]

Basel is located on the Rhein River in northern Switzerland and contains both a new and old portion of the city. The old city contains many buildings that are easily older than the United States by a long shot. This isn’t surprising since most of Europe predates us but seeing it carved into stone on [...]

Located in southern Switzerland near the town of Sierre, Grimentz, is a small mountain town reached by driving a winding, mountain road up into the clouds. The drive takes about 30 minutes from the valley and your ears pop at least once on the drive up. Located in Grimentz is a very popular ski resort [...]

It was a bitterly cold day when I took the 1.5 hour train ride from Bern to Zurich.  Even walking around the old city with a hat and gloves didn’t keep the cold at bay.  That just gave me an excuse to duck into quaint coffee shops and the Apple store.  A good little travel [...]