Tag: cruises

  • Iseltwald, a K-drama filming location in Switzerland

    Iseltwald, a K-drama filming location in Switzerland

    Continuing with our drive to explore the two lakes – Lake Thun (Thurnersee in German) and Lake Brienz (Brienzersee) … Of the two lakes, Brienzersee is slightly smaller and the shores are more heavily wooded and much less developed than Thunersee. And there isn’t a big town like Thun at the far end of Brienzersee.…

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  • Travel in Post-pandemic Switzerland, Spiez

    Travel in Post-pandemic Switzerland, Spiez

    While the number of COVID infections ebbed and flowed throughout 2021, we did not take a vacation or travel anywhere during the first half of the year. Luckily, we received our first dose of Moderna vaccine in March and then a second dose in June.  Like many people in Europe, we started travelling again with…

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  • Galley tour on board Celebrity Reflection

    On our first “at-sea” day, we went to one of the “events” which is a tour of the galleys on board the ship. The galley is a compartment of a ship, train or aircraft where the food is cooked and prepared – i.e., the mobile industrial kitchen. The German executive chef started with a power point…

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  • The Houses around Thunersee

    While we were visiting Interlaken, we went on a cruise around Thunersee and posted about it here and here. We have so many pictures to post because the cruise took about two hours each way, a total of four hours  round trip. We sat lazily on the top deck, Sue staring into the distance and me…

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  • Thunersee cruise, part 2

    Continuing with our cruise from Interlaken to Thun … after Merligen, the boat headed to the south shore. On the south shore is the town of Spiez. Behind it are three mountains, each having a nick near the top (see photo below). They looked almost artificial ! I bet you can only see the alignment…

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  • Thunersee cruise, part 1

    We spent a long weekend in Interlaken towards the end of summer. The plan was to visit the world famous Jungfrau but for that altitude, it requires a clear and cloudless sky. Otherwise, the visibility is effectively zero. At the tourist office, they told us the weather on the first two days were not good…

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