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Rhine river & Water Power Station crossing the German/Swiss border

Rheinfelden, Swiss-German Border Town

A short walk from the Swiss Rheinfelden to the German Rheinfelden (Baden). A look around the original Exhibition Pavilion “Kraftwerk 1898” which is the water power station from 1898. Day 1217 – July 1st 2017 You can easily cross the border from Switzerland to Germany and vice-versa in Rhinefelden (Baden). We walked across and then […]

Birthday cake from the hotel Seeterrasse

Day out in Lindau, Germany

From Langenargen it’s an enjoyable boat trip on Lake Constance to Lindau. Lindau is not quite an island as it’s joined to the mainland of Germany but many refer to it as “Insel Lindau”. Day 1212 – June 26th 2017 We caught the MS Graf Zeppelin boat for our one hour trip to Lindau. We […]

Olten Holzbrücke - Covered wooden bridge

Welcome to Olten Switzerland

After 1200 days of travel we wake up back in the hometown from Moni, a small city called Olten which is a busy centre of the Swiss railway. Day 1200 – June 14th 2017 Olten is a town in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland and capital of the district of the same name. View along the river Aare in Olten 200-year-old Wooden Bridge in […]

The Temple Bar Dublin

Slane and onto Dublin

Our tour around Ireland is, sure enough, coming to an end and today we head over to Dublin. From here we will fly out to Zürich. But on the way, we wanted to try to catch up with a friend of ours from back when I worked at the London Hilton on Park Lane and […]

Kings Head Pub Galway

Galway City & Latin Quarter

After a wet evening yesterday we woke to patchy blue skies over Galway. Our BnB was small but comfortable and the breakfast great. Day 1197 – June 11th 2017 Following are images from our day in Galway. I reserved a table in Monroe’s Tavern for dinner which was a blessing as the place was packed […]