Our Family Adventure Winds Down in Chur & Zurich
The third day of our family’s Great Train Adventure saw us back on the Glacier Express for the trip of a lifetime. What views! The train slowly zigged and zagged its way up the mountain to the highest rail point in Europe, at the Oberpass. Later that day, we arrived in Chur which has the distinction […]
Our Adventure Takes us to Zermatt & The Matterhorn
In Zermatt, we stayed at the local youth hostel for 2 nights — the grandparents were great sports! We bunked down in an 8 room mixed sex dormitory! The Hartshorn family took the cable car and gondola as far up The Matterhorn as we could. It was snowing at the top and the air was very thin. […]
Our Family Adventure On The Glacier Express
After 10 days on the boat our family took off for our ‘Great Train Adventure’. The plan was to travel on the Glacier Express through Switzerland. We were thrilled to have my parents join us for this adventure on the rails. On day one we traveled on five trains starting with a train from the boat to Paris. The TGV […]