Monthly Archives: July 2010

Leysin!

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Resting peacefully within the french region of the Swiss Alps is the mountain village of Leysin. We traveled the cog train (the one that goes straight up the mountain) from Aigle and after our one mile vertical clime above Lake …

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Zurich!

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Ahhh, the land of cheese, chocolate, yodeling and banks.  Switzerland, the ever neutral, vastly beautiful country with mountains that stretch through the clouds and lakes blue as the Caribbean, Switzerland not only provides the world with top quality consumer goods, …

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Salzburg

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When we were dropped off in Salzburg from our carpool guy, Brad and I found ourselves at a cafe with free ifi wto get into contact with our couchsurfing host, Christina. She immediately offered to pick us up… with a half baked …

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Vienna

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History class was never my favorite, but whenever WWII was the topic it was all of a sudden an interesting subject. I especially loved the movies or documentaries dealing with the war. I think it’s mostly this that I have …

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Beograd

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So after a pretty good 8 hour train ride to Sofia where we got to stretch across the seats, and a not so good 8 hour train ride to Belgrade, Serbia (in an outdated train from the 70’s with velvet …

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