Monthly Archives: September 2010

Bern in the rain

Posted on September 26, 2010 by Arcturi

On Sunday we drove to Bern with Simone and she took us to the Cathedral to get a free map and gave us some tips about what to see before catching the train back to Zurich.  Being Sunday most shops … Continue reading →

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Interlaken & Cheese Fondue

Posted on September 25, 2010 by Arcturi

After leaving Schilthorn we drove to Interlaken where we spent the afternoon looking around before meeting Simone at the train station.  Apparently it’s a tourist centre and I could believe it with shop after shop selling Victorinox (Swiss Army knives), … Continue reading →

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Schilthorn – the Big Day arrives

Posted on September 24, 2010 by Arcturi

The reason we rushed from Hamburg down to Switzerland was because I wanted to go on the cable-car up Schilthorn (Piz Gloria in the James Bond movie “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service”) and we had to make it before their … Continue reading →

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Switzerland and Simone

Posted on September 23, 2010 by Arcturi

On Friday 6th we left Tübingen reasonably early and drove through the Swiss border to Winterthur where Simone was living.  I was very excited about seeing her again and she’d taken the day off work for us.  We collected her … Continue reading →

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Lauda & Tübingen

Posted on September 10, 2010 by Arcturi

After we left Hamburg the GPS navigator said we’d get to Lauda about 4.30pm, but in the end there was so much roadworks that it was just after 6pm.  There were quite a lot of places where the motorway was … Continue reading →

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