Pictures from Ian and Kat's Digital Camera: Golden Pass
[Up to Switzerland: 17–26 Apr, 2015 ]

Here are pictures from various trips I have taken to faraway (and not-so-faraway) places.

During sabbatical in Europe, we went to Switzerland for a week to give talks at EPFL and ETH Zurich. It was our first time in Switzerland.
We took the scenic train (well, really four trains) through the Golden Pass from Montreux to Zurich. It's much, much longer than the fast train, but it was extremely pretty, and we totally lucked out on the clearness of the weather.
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On the first leg, we booked special tickets sitting right in the front of the train, looking out the front window.

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And we're on our way, snaking our way up the mountain above Montreux.

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Looking down and just a tiny bit ahead, one can see the tracks disappearing under the train.

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Looking straight ahead.

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A pretty green chateau up on the mountainside.

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The light at the end of the tunnel.

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Still some patches of snow in the meadows.

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This is pretty canonical Switzerland.

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The lake as we approach Interlaken from the west.

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On one of the later trains, there were upward-facing windows, so you could see the tops of the mountains.

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One of our stops was in Lucerne; we took a one-hour break from the trains to walk around. This is the Kapellbrücke (Chapel Bridge). Kat bought a Swiss Army knife from the store in the tower (the former armory).

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Many of the buildings were decoratively painted on the exterior.

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Up to Switzerland: 17–26 Apr, 2015

This page last updated: 26 Apr, 2015

Ian Goldberg, ian@paip.net.
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