Day 291 of 364 - Sun 5/20: Mike & Lor-Ann's EuroTrip

Word of the day:   Trein  (Train)

SWITZERLAND... Today We took the glacier express. An 8hr ride from east side of the country to the west or vice versa. "It is a day trip through untouched mountain landscapes, glamorous health resorts, deep gorges, delightful valleys, 91 tunnels and across 291 impressive bridges." (I tried to count all the tunnels and bridges with tick marks but I fell a few short)

 

Again very picturesque! We went through all different elevations and weather changes... Warm, green and sunny to gray, cloudy and snowy!

We had lunch and a few drinks. Then we were probably 20 mins from the end of the ride and I put down my red wine to take a picture of the scenery, well the train jolted and guess what happened?!?! Yep, that is right.... Spilled all over me! And of course I had a sweater next to me that got it too...urgh. So I pretty much spent the rest of the ride in the toilet wetting everything trying to get it out :) ... Oh well... Sh%t happens :)

We ended the ride in zermatt where we were to spend the next 2 nights!!

We were in zermatt during "off-season", though there were still ppl skiing but not the masses that would have otherwise. And it was just a bit earlier than their "summer season." Which was fine with us, bc we couldn't imagine the crowds everywhere!  (Zermatt is super quiet bc it is nestled at the bottoms of the mountains and there are no cars allowed. The only cars are small little golf cart like cars that are from the hotels to transport their patrons and all the ski gear.)