Yeah, so OK, so this is stupid.
Going to the Alps in the summer.
Right.
With constraints imposed by public schools conflicting with a base goal of exposing our kids to travel, that's just how it works out. And so we did.
Landing in Zurich with a Eurail pass, my daughter and I hopped a train to Goeschonen on the way to Vienna where we were to meet my wife and son who had already been on a 2 week tour of eastern Yurp. We met Birdo there, maestro of http://www.andermatt-guides.ch/EN/ . Danny queued us up with crash space at their hutte up a windy single lane above Goeschonen :
http://www.gasthaus-goescheneralp.ch/
This is going to be somewhat mental as in incremental as I recover from jet lag...
Seeing as how the next day we need to board an early train, Danny left us the keys to his van. On rising at 6:30, I managed to drive down using the pullouts without hitting anyone to meet Danny for breakfast here:
Shortly after riding the little cog railway up to Andermatt, we switched trains to the Glacier Express and looked back on Andermatt in it's cloak of summer green:
We clicked and clacked rolling along the Glacier Express train, past towns of tongue twisting names with the Swiss peaks trailing past.
Saw some striking limestone crags outside of Chur:
Along the way. I got to know my 14 year old daughter better. She is changing fast at this stage and we've had some differences, so it was really good to spend time and just blither about the images passing and simpler things.
Eventually after 10 hours of trains, passing through Chur, Landquart, Vaduz, Feldkirch, Bludenz, Sankt Anton, Innsbruck, Salzburg we finally deboarded in Vienna and looked up a pal who provided awesome crash space.
We went out for a classic Viennese fancy dinner of boiled beef and roots.
The next day we went arting around.
Belvedere Museum grounds.
Wifey discouraged the desirable boob honk picture on this one. I was downcast.
I have a thing for Klimpt acquired during septum damaging events of the 70s:
Door to Natural History Museum:
Stephans Dome Vienna
The next day, the itinerary was to roll via trains through Salzburg to the Gasteinertal.
TBC
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