The Cube

Index page for 24 days in Mosel, Rhine, Black Forest, Alsace and Switzerland. Pre-travel Breakdown of travel days and links to accommodations. Belgium: Antwerp Day 1: Lazing my day away in Antwerp before ending the night in Gent Belgium: Gent Day 2: Walkabout Gent before attending K&M's wedding Day 3: Slept my day...

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Initially I had the bright idea of crossing the border to get to Liechtenstein for half a day and spend the remaining half in Zurich. I don't have any other days left as I fly out the next morning. After much googling and checking on train connections, it proved a little too time...

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On the day I visited Zermatt, I had already shifted from Gimmelwald to Interlaken, which meant that my holiday was coming to an end soon. Zermatt because I wanted to see Matterhorn, yes, the symbol on the chocolate brand, Toblerone. Grin. As I have gone up Jungfraujoch the day before, I stayed around...

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Gimmelwald was my base in Bernese Oberland area. This little village is so small that the nearest Coop shop is in Mürren. It sounded pretty glamorous to say that I needed to take a cable car to do my grocery shopping but that was how it was. There is a little shop that sell...

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I was indecisive between going up to Jungfraujoch or Schilthorn. As I was staying in Gimmelwald, it would make more sense to go up Schilthorn given the geographical logic as well as monetary reason. It will take me less than 30 minutes on a single cable car ride to get there from Gimmelwald...

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