When I travel, the one blessing of jetlag is that some days just seem to last forever and it’s possible (with a few catnaps) to just keep going and going and going…This last trip to Europe I had one of those days…
It began with breakfast in the hotel dining room (why oh why is European yogurt always better than anything I can find here in the States) and with a hour’s lounging at the sauna, with an amazing view (above).
And then we went to the station to book tickets on the historic Bernina Express train route through the Alps. Without a doubt that train ride was the most scenic that I’ve ever experienced, and we lucked out to have an entire panorama car to ourselves because of it being off-season in the region. Here’s the train station, just before we left (note: click on any of these photos below for a larger view):
And here are a handful of photos from the trip, as we made our way up and over the Alps (where I learned that swiss green is greener-than-green):
It was raining and snowing a bit that morning. I loved how the clouds hovered around the tops of the mountains…
Our views out the windows looked like this (i.e. amazing, there was so much to see):