This is a follow-up in a more positive note than yesterday’s post Barcelona, the City I Won’t Visit Again. Sagrada Familia is a large Roman Catholic church in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, designed by Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí (1852–1926). The construction started in 1882 and it has not finished yet, the anticipated completion date being 2026…
Barcelona is the first city I will say I won’t visit again. No other city that I have visited in the past 20 years left me such a bad taste and it is a pity as it is a very beautiful city. It was sickening to see so many pick-pockets. Nothing has happened to…
Allied bombing raids, Freddie Mercury, United Nations, broken chair, ‘thieves’ in Geneva, Chaplin, Swiss chard, art, Starbucks prices, fur, huge fork, ode for the transport cards, World Trade Organization, cows And this concludes the Switzerland ‘report’ trip. Previous posts were: Swiss Banks Rochers-de-Naye, Switzerland 2 The Chocolate Factory, Switzerland 3 Chateau de Chillon, “Switzerland’s most visited historic monument”…
Look what I have found and bought :). I wanted to bring it home too, but I transited via the U.S. (yes, no choice here United vs Air Canada – $339 vs $908) and I was afraid I would be stopped and it wasn’t worth to do any research to see whether the product is legal or not. As…
The Hotel Cornavin has the biggest mechanical clock in the world, with a total length of 30 meters; we are in Switzerland so somehow expected 🙂 but surprised it is still a world record, I would have thought the record would be somewhere in Asia or in the oil countries from the Middle East. However, this wasn’t the…
Chateau de Chillon is a must see place; no surprise it is ranked #2 of 16 attractions in Montreux on tripadvisor. Tip: With the Riviera Card the admission fee is CHF6 instead of the adult price CHF12. I did not know about this as this rate is not displayed at the castle’s entrance, I found out only…
The Chocolate Train was on my list and it already had been budgeted for 🙂 (198 CHF – around 208 USD for 2 tickets). The reviews on tripadvisor were very good (out of 27, 16 were excellent) … but I decided to read the not so good reviews and one drew my attention. Chocolate Train do…
The train to Rochers-de-Naye departs every hour from Montreux station and it takes some 55 minutes. If you stay at a hotel in Montreux you will get a free travel card (Montreux Riviera Card) that covers buses and trains as well so for the trip you need to pay only for the distance that is outside of the…
I was in Switzerland and I was curious whether I would come across the famous Swiss banks. And I did, accidentally of course, just a door with a sign there was a bank there. 1. PKB Privatebank I was curious whether they have a website and they do, and the site is in English, French, Italian…
I like the museums in London, mostly because they are free. English archer at the National Army Museum, he is bare-legged, because of … dysentery. When they saw the French cavalry attacking they must have been sh…ing themselves literally and figuratively. This gave a new meaning to no retreat, no step back, as no-one wanted to step on…