…since we vacationed in Switzerland! As we were waiting for our flight to depart, we realized that neither one of us have a watch. We even considered purchasing a $20 watch at the airport, but decided against it since we’ll be staying in one of the world’s most popular watch industries. We were hoping we could just use the street clocks, cuckoo clocks, tower clocks that were available - and we did! Yes!
We had a wonderful time visiting Germany, France, and 12 different Swiss towns in 14 days! Yes, we felt like nomads traveling to a new hotel every 2 days, but in the end it was worth all of the many days of sore legs and blistered feet.
We took over 700 photos so lets see if I can narrow down to two-three favorite photos for every city we visited.
We landed in Zurich on our first day - luggage got lost so we spent the day exploring the city.
Lake Constance, Germany to attend a friend’s wedding on the Bodensee.
We visited the town’s magestic Munster Cathedral.
Touring Basel by using the itour - a visual and audio self guided tour around the city. What a great device if you’re interested in learning the city’s history and architecture.
Beautiful stained glass windows in the late Romanesque Munster
I took this photo from an small opening from one of the towers.
We took the ferry from Lucerne to Vitznau
Views from our tram
We visited the KKL Museum
Toured the elaborate gold leaf and fat angels inside the Munster in Lucerene.
The famous Chapel Bridge - a wooden bridge from the 14th Century
Smart Cars in Europe were so compact.
Day 2 in Lucerne, hiked up to Gutsche - beautiful blue/gray skies
Visited some Swiss chocolate shops along the way.
Taking the train to Chur
Those adorable Swiss kids were everywhere!
Glacier Train to the snow covered Swiss alps
Us in 30 years
Two thumbs up on our balcony view in Zermatt
Our Swiss Chalet in Zermatt
A coniferous tree and Mr. Apple’s hand, doesn’t this look cool ?
I love bratwurst!
Ok this post has become too long…will post the remaining 6 days next!
lol @ the pic of you in 30 years. i can’t wait to go traveling with the bf and explore all these cool places together. great, as if i don’t have enough things on my plate to plan for already. lol
o it looks like so much fun!
you guys make such a cute couple!
kp: In the past i’ve always found “Lonely Planet Guide” a great travel book with tons of information but on this trip we used a combination of 2 travel books plus the “I” (Information) Tourist Terminal in Switzerland and Germany.
We used “The Rough Guide to Switzerland” - its more of a budget/back packers guide to travel. We found it was fairly useful in that it had a short snyopsis of each cities history and the maps were great too.
The other reference was “Eyewitness Travel Guide to Switzerland”. This book had beautiful photos with descriptions of must see sights.
They both had lodging and restaurant listings like most travel books but we visited each cities “I” Terminal. That was by far the best option to go if you’re ever in Switzerland. I’m not sure if most European cities have this, though.
It’s basically a tourist office with tons of information (local city maps, day tours, which hills/mountains to hike up, gondola rides, restaurants, museums, itours that we used were rented out here, etc) You can also purchase tickets for ferry rides, gondola rides, train rides etc. They even have view cams that shows the whether conditions! Hope this helps!
You guys look like you’re having so much fun! Thanks for posting!
What a GREAT vacation!!! Hehe I love the pic with you and the Smart Car. Cute! 
Looks like a ton of fun. Nice pics!
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12 cities in 14 days?? How fun!
Can you recommend any travel books?(if you used any)