The sun has come out in Switzerland and we have been taking advantage of it!
Below is Bargis, an hour hike away from Flims
Spring flowers cover the alps…
Frauenschuhe (Women’s shoes) a wild orchid in the forest around Flims.
Falera – a beautiful church where Anita’s brother was married…
Below is the view from the church in Falera…
The view from Anita’s summer cabin in the mountains…
Flimserstein and Flims. Anita’s house is really small on the bottom left.
Chur
Anita’s good friend Max flew out from LA and we had a blast seeing the Alps and Northern Italy…
Rare flower called “Narzisse” only found in a few regions of Switzerland. One of the regions is close to Flims.
Juf – the highest, in terms of elevation, populated village in Europe. Habitants roughly 19.
Anemonen flowers (Tal’s favorite)
Behind us in the picture below, one can see Roman tracks carved into the rock from when they crossed over the Alps…
Lake Como in Italy…
The streets of Italy along Lake Como were beautiful….
The sun came out half way through the day and we drove through the cities with Anita’s Italian music playing…
Locarno, Switzerland at the Lago Maggiore…
Valle Verzasca in southern Switzerland – the last time Anita was here was in 1979.
The dam leading into Valle Verzasca – where Golden Eye was filmed. Tal definitely wants to jump!
The Glacier Express
We took a tourist train through the alps that was really worth the cost. It has panoramic views as well as an audio guide that was very informative.
Tal had to take this shot…
We crossed Switzerland on “The Slowest Express Train in the World” and this was our first glimpse of the Matterhorn.
On the same day we took the train up to the Gornergrat, where we had one of the most amazing views of the alps. We can’t say it enough…Switzerland is incredibly beautiful.
On top of the Gornergrat with the Matterhorn in the background.
The beautiful and majestic Matterhorn.
Monte Rosa and the Dufourpeak along with their glaciers on the left. The Dufourpeak is the highest mountain in Switzerland.
The next day we took the train to Bern. On the way we stopped in Montreux on Lake Geneva.
Bern, the capital of Switzerland…the river Aare runs around it. It’s clean and one can get in and float around the city like those lazy river attractions at water resorts….
A bear is the symbol of the Canton of Bern and they keep a family of bears near the above river. Everyone in Switzerland is excited because the bear family recently gave birth to two new bear cubs (seen below)…
We got to visit the temple in Bern. The church members from Verona were there so we got to speak a lot of Italian….
Anita and I were really to find a string of 4 days with sunshine to see this beautiful country… And to our joy, the full moon also came out!
