SWITZERLAND - DAY 3 The day dawned grey and overcast. Great, looked like we were going to get extremely wet up on the mountain. We packed extra socks and jeans in case and headed off for our day in the snow on Mt Titlis the highest mountain in Switzerland. Excitement was high as this was our first time in snow. We had heaps planned. Snowball fights, snowman building, making snow angels, and any type of sled ride they had available to ride once up there. The ...

SWITZERLAND - DAY 2 Had a later start today so we all got to sleep in. After breakfast we headed off on our Cityrama Tour - The Great Tour of Zurich. We were shown a section of Zurich's Old Town. Then it was across the river to the famous Chagall windows. Unfortunately the church that contain the windows was closed so we left and continued through the historical Limmatquai, the commercial centre and the university district. We were informed as we drove along the...

SWITZERLAND - DAY 1 We had a leisurely breakfast before walking down to the bus for our excursion to Lucerne. We traveled out of Zurich going through several tunnels through mountains. The longest tunnel was five kilometres long. The weather was not the best, wet and windy, temperature back down to ten degrees. Along the way we learnt a little about Switzerland. For example the people speak four languages. German is the most popular language of Switzerland, how...

TRAVELLING - FRANKFURT TO ZURICH We are leaving Germany after sixteen wonderful days, which is a bit sad but we are all very excited about the prospect of maybe seeing snow up close and personal. The girls really want to have a snowball fight. We couldn't wait to get out of this hotel this morning so we left without having our breakfast and headed for the train station. What do you know, the train was 30 minutes late. While we waited we ate some breakfast bef...