What a awesome place when we steamed into the station or should I rather say rolled in. Thinking of the high Swiss culture of service we head strong for the tourist bureau on the Station platform. Was I disappointed to the poor service A lady in her middle years of Asiatic origin served us with a unsympathetic attitude that belong to tax collector She did know of any agriculture being done in the Zurich area outside the city When we gave up trying we asked f...

We left the non smiling Germans for the Swiss border at Schaufhausen and can you believe what a beautifull country side it is the deep South of Germany. Beautifull small farms We crossed the border into Switzerland with out passport checks just the train stopped and we got off to change that we realized that we are already into Swiss Country. No words need to explain the beauty of Swiss country side we sit glued to the window to watch the world go by. Until we...

After a wonderfull city tour after the beer fest we embarked on a little cultural tour to see the old masters in the time line 1400-1800 After getting lost for off on the wrong underground and map reading we walked and walked and walked an eventually reached the Politikon wher all the paintings are stored It is an amazing gallery where I saw for the first time a Leonardo Da Vinci apparently his very first painting and some other works from him as well as Rubens ,...

Ons is baie beindruk met die grootte van Munich. A city with more than 13 miljoen citizens But I expected the area the towns to be more neat an taken care off. It is ok but not very neat Accommodation is expensive because of the October Fest something of very big importance for the Bavarian people. All over on trains and other public transport it is so easy to see local people going up to the fest dressed in German outfits and the woman in dresses what they cal...

We started on our European trip by boarding train at 9hoo the train to Edinburg Die landscape is pragtig nooit geweet Skotland country side is so beautifull and picturesome. My lovely daughter have spoiled us with a food hamper with meat sandwich and lots of nice snacks Le Clercq is joining us on this leg to Edinburg and as we get off he goes on to Newcastle and then to base Oki doki talk to you lovely people again. Yster