{"id":4557,"date":"2016-04-22T16:35:09","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T06:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/?p=4557"},"modified":"2026-05-12T08:07:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T07:07:24","slug":"where-can-i-find-more-superlatives-for-switzerland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/2016\/04\/22\/where-can-i-find-more-superlatives-for-switzerland\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Can I Find More Superlatives For Switzerland?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rodney loves the mountains, but I need a beach to make me truly happy, and I do understand that there will never be beaches with rolling surf anywhere up a mountain.\u00a0 But you can love a classic movie like The English Patient even if there isn\u2019t a gorgeous actor like Jude Law in it, and sometimes standing on a mountain with, what feels like the world beneath your feet, I do get it, and so then I can let the rolling surf wait for another time.<\/em><\/p>\n

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One of many, typically Swiss, decorated buildings in Luzern<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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When we arrived in Switzerland, we crossed the Rhine River, twice I think, in Basel.\u00a0 Eileen tootled along, up and down green hills dotted with small farms.\u00a0 It was all there, creamy brown cows, little churches with interesting steeples, meadows full of flowers, blue lakes, snow-capped mountains and all under a clear blue sky.\u00a0 South, south, south; we need to warm up and surprisingly when we got out of the car, just north of Luzern, it was so very much warmer.\u00a0 By mid- afternoon it was 19\u00b0C and oh, the joy of no longer needing to be wearing the \u2018Michelin Man\u2019 style. Now it felt like Spring and we couldn\u2019t have timed the weather better to arrive in Luzern.<\/p>\n

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View of the south bank from the Spreuerbr\u00fccke (covered bridge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Luzern itself is beautiful; a perfect picture-postcard and we instantly decided to stay a couple of days to really breath it in.\u00a0 We left Eileen at Camping International Lido and cycled the 2.5kms back round the lake to the city centre and then spent four hours strolling the strassen, wandering over the fantastic wooden bridges and the old city walls.\u00a0 It felt like one of the most peaceful, laid back cities that we have come across on our travels.<\/p>\n

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View over Luzern from Museggmauer (city walls)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Kapellbr\u00fccke (wooden bridge)……. with swans\u2026..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Now we knew that Switzerland was going to be expensive and one of the first things we needed to do, was to get some Swiss francs from a bank teller machine.\u00a0 We were both a bit shocked when the 400Fr came out of the machine as two 200Fr notes! \u00a0Each note was equivalent to $266Au or \u00a3145\u2026\u2026..how much was a cup of coffee going to cost?!!!!! Actually we did check that out on the menu board at Starbucks: about 7Fr for the medium size, that\u2019s $9Au\u2026..eeks!\u00a0 Rodney, get those big notes ready, I\u2019m off to the Swiss chocolate shop to check out what I fancy.<\/p>\n

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A very helpful leaflet given to older people at the Tourist Office in Luzern\u2026..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The American author, Mark Twain described the \u2018Lion of Lucerne\u2019 as the saddest and most moving piece of rock in the world.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Thursday was another beautiful sunny day, so we cycled round to the ferry terminal and floated across the superb Lake Lucerne (aka Vierwaldst\u00e4ttersee).\u00a0 At Vitznau we hopped off and then boarded the cog railway which plodded up to Rigi-Kulm, the top of the mountain.\u00a0 It has to be one of the most beautiful places in the world; the majestic mountains spread before us, all still topped with plenty of snow and the lake still in view below us.\u00a0 We breathed it all in deeply, to treasure as a memory for ever.<\/p>\n

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Weggis from the boat en route to Vitznau<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The train at the top of Rigi-Kulm, this has to be the most scenic train station in the world!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Rodney and a friend on top of Mt Rigi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Before heading back down on the train, we drank hot chocolate and ate a pretzel and a slice of apfel strudel\u2026..when in Switzerland\u2026\u2026.<\/p>\n

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Hang-glider over the mountains<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Looking back to Luzern and Pilatus Kulm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Rodney loves the mountains, but I need a beach to make me truly happy, and I do understand that there will never be beaches with rolling surf anywhere up a mountain.\u00a0 But you can love a classic movie like The English Patient even if there isn\u2019t a gorgeous actor like Jude Law in it, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8240,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4557\/revisions\/8240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}