Switzerland
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250 photos
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The Virginia Tech villa. It was only mentioned in...
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The baptistery across the street from the Villa. This...
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My bedroom in the apartment -- the apartment was huge!
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The kitchen, dining table, door to the living room (back...
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Looking back towards the bedroom from the kitchen.
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Living room.
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More living room. I did nothing in this room other than...
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Hallway down to the front door and the bathroom.
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Bathroom - the one room that was quite small, which...
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On our way to go hiking on Thursday afternoon. Who knew...
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Carin (white shirt, left) claimed that the whole trail...
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Looking down towards Riva.
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This picture does not show this well, but these trees...
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Maggie, a friend through Pittsburgh Penguins / hockey love.
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Catherine at the first of two false-finishes to the...
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Purty fleurs, as some would say. Kind of like lilacs,...
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Sitting on a ledge overlooking the lake at false-finish...
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Riva and the Villa are basically in the corner of the...
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What is that I spy? A building of some sort?
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Why yes! It is an old monastery at the top of the...
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Sadly, it was super-hazy the day of our climb. The...
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The monks, while not in any form of residence at the...
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It seems odd that it could take both 1 hour 20 and 1...
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One of the best parts of Switzerland: public fountains...
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Beautiful roses outside the Villa.
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Close-up of the roses.
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The first bridge on our day of bridge-by-bus touring...
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Sadly, Carin would not let us climb this ladder.
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Looking through the bridge at some snow. Heading...
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This, however, is the second bridge. Ridiculously, one...
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If you zoom in on that googlemap, and switch it to...
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This was one of the main piers of the bridge. 18 in....
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Sadly, it started to rain at this point. We were...
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Carin did allow climbing of the stairs on the second...
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Zoomed in.
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"Climb through me!" Sadly, those stair-steps got really...
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Teeny eeny weeny columns.
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A final look at Bridge 2.
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Looking back at bridge 1.
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Our first view of the Sunniberg Bridge, another Menn...
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Looking up at one pier through the trees.
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I had a lot of fun playing with my camera's settings by...
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The river underneath was awesome. Like most of the...
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I want to start a collection of pictures looking up...
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This is actually from the other side of the same pier. ...
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The curve is very apparent here.
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Bigger bridge column for this one. No arch for...
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Natural phenomena? The rivers also provided an...
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I feel I could almost convince someone this is a picture...
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Again, I hope out of all these shots, there is at least...
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Better picture of the curve.
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This little river was actually draining into the river...
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That's the same little river.
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An awesome view of the blisters in which each of those...
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Black and white attempt.
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Those mountains were so neat, but so hard to see in photos.
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So I tried taking a picture of just them.
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Final attempt.
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This is when I discovered my camera has the ability to...
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Sunniberg bridge from the top. The flare of the columns...
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The Swiss do not seem to care about possible litigation...
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This lax attitude allows for things like this. Fun.
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For our bridge tour, we were driven around by Fabio, a...
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Swiss version of "pick up after your dog."
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If you zoom in, you can read the history of this next...
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More info...
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My view from my lunch spot. That's the bridge there on...
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I don't think I've mentioned - this bridge was designed...
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Odd to see reference to something American in Switzerland.
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Robert Maillart: owner of the world's best professional headshot.
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The bridge! It might not look too impressive, but...
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Carin near midspan.
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Realize as well that the bridge was designed so the arch...
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Catherine + bridge = smiles.
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Design details of the bridge. Another fun fact: it's a...
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Did I mention this bridge was basically one lane wide...
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Another great source of water. I never had to worry if...
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We never did figure out what (or who) Chumm Sitz 'a'...
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Maillart's Val-Teschiel bridge.
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Val-Tschiel. Note how slender the arch itself is. This...
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There was one house right at the joint of the roads to...
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Here, I practiced more with the single-color focus with...
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Much of the group on Val-Tschiel.
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The boring new bridge.
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Looking at the ground below and my boots poking through...
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Again, Val-Tschiel is a one-lane bridge. Great for a...
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Final view of Val-Tschiel. I particularly like that you...
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As promised: Fabio, driving with cell.
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Craziest public WC structure I have ever seen.
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With the craziest toilet contraption I have ever seen...
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Looking down once more on Nanin and Cascella as we head...
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One of the things I really wanted to do, but never got a...
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On May 23, 12 of us headed out on a hiking bridge tour. ...
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A picture from the bus ride up to our bridge hike day -...
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Nanin or Cascella (bridge 1) from above, as seen from...
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All of the hiking signage was awesome, although I never...
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There was snow around, which was fun, seeing as it was late May.
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This particular town had its own ski lift. Sadly, it...
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We passed by, on the bus, an area that is apparently...
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Apparently this sign says something about "beware of...
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Menn's Letziwald Bridge, built in 1960. This bridge may...
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Another arch bridge; we're not sure who designed this...
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More in context.
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The whole road was awesome in that it took advantage of...
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Our trail markers for the week... just about every trail...
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Another Menn bridge that was difficult to get a good...
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The river, near Crut. We stopped here and put our feet...
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Happy farmer and his cow asking us to do... something.
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Hiking down the staircase that was part of the trail. ...
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Looking down on the more-raging river.
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Tommy walking through a bizarre cattle-guard of sorts. ...
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I forgot to record our starting elevation; I believe it...
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Catherine, with Campsut in the background.
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My attempt at graphically displaying "2-6", to mark the birthday.
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This recess in the rock was so neat -- it has obviously...
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What might, at first glance, look like another nice...
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The river, a waterfall into it, and the stone wall on...
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Looking at the river through one of the small arches on...
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Group shot on the old arch bridge. From left - Dan,...
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I wouldn't mind having a bridge like this on my property...
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An attempt at highlighting the color of the river......
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This one might be a touch better.
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Old bridge + new bridge.
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I just liked this shot.
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This is the waterfall that was visible in the background...
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We came upon an unfinished bridge on the trail. Going...
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The path from which we came.
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I don't know what happened to Girder #1...
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Looking back from the far side.
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The far side did have a small barricade indicating this...
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This was, we figured, the aftermath of a large...
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There was a chute through which we assume the debris fell.
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If I take pictures of one bridge, I really should take...
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Maggie demonstrating the problems with accepting a...
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Looking down at Innerferrera, our final destination (or,...
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The tunnel on the old road.
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Walking through the tunnel.
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A glu-lam (wood) arch bridge into Innerferrera.
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Sad evidence of possible deterioration of the concrete...
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The town of Innerferrera.
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Looking back at the concrete arch bridge.
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A giant wooden shoe that served as decoration on the...
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If you look closely, you will realize that the boy...
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Innerferrera!
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More martini buses!
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Tess refilling her bottle at another town water fountain.
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Resting in Andeer while waiting for our bus (having...
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Saturday night, before I could get my dessert (pineapple...
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Happy Catherine with cake.
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Time to dig in. If you look closely to the right,...
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As such, it took a while to finish. And suddenly, I...
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More pretty flowers, in the garden of the Villa.
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Garden path, with the Villa in the background
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Maggie reading under some very neat trees that had...
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Back door to the Villa.
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Reading area.
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Neat trees.
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Probably my favorite pictogram of the whole trip. I...
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A street fair was taking place in Bellinzona. I guess...
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The pony I wanted to take home. Unfortunately, that...
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So instead, I petted this one for a while. He tried to...
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In Bellinzona, we went to a soccer (football) match...
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The police that were marching in front of the Zurich...
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Zurich fans. This was the only picture I got before...
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People-pusher car at the end of the parade.
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More riot police.
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The stadium. Again, for comparison, think back to the...
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Zurich fans, contained to one end of the stadium, with...
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Tess and Braxton (whose shirt was almost cool, until you...
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Stephanie and Maggie.
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Play in progress.
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I had fun trying to interpret the various road and...
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Hey! Hockey! There was a little floor-hockey rink...
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Maggie showing off our cool tunnel-visiting outfits (and...
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Maggie and Catherine
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This was about as good of a picture within the tunnel as...
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Post buses go everywhere! Also, hee, "extrafahrt". We...
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Explanation of the tunnel. South is at the top. We...
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What the tunnel cuts out for the trains -- see the climb...
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Various parts of the tunnel.
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The tunnel info center was really neat. The structure...
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The roof of the building. The rock walls are in the...
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Looking towards one of the rock processing plants.
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An old, retired face to a drilling machine that was...
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Schnappy the plastic gator (from a previous trip) meets...
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Waterfall on the side of the Bellinzona train station. ...
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The view from the bar near the Villa towards my...
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Osteria San Giorgio -- the perfect bar for us,...
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A road sign I never figured out. "Zone of stopping......
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The day we headed to Zurich was quite windy, and the...
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The beach I swam a few times. That hill in the...
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I really wanted to find a postcard (or poster) of this,...
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The really neat bridge just outside the spiraling tunnel...
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Now the second.
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And the third. I wouldn't have minded going around a...
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Tommy, Tess, and Carin (the real professors on the trip)...
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Mercedes taxis line up on the Bahnhofstrasse, the major...
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We skipped Prada and Hermes, however, and went to the...
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The wall of cuckoo clocks at the toy store. Note the...
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Lego town in the toy store!
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Giant ball-mover toy, multiple floors tall (see the...
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I wanted to buy this, the concrete-mixer Lego truck. It...
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This was not an uncommon sight: a row of cars, starting...
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Meredith, Maggie, Catherine, and Stephanie. Unlike...
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Grossmunster ("great minister"), one of two large...
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Looking across the Limmat from the church plaza.
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My room at the Hotel Walhalla. This was my favorite...
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I did not, however, like the creepy cherub-with-lyre on the wall.
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Calvin and Hobbes in German!
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A Hilti truck parked in front of the mountains near the...
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Hotel Walhalla! For some reason, this hotel reminded me...
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The Swiss National Museum, as viewed from my hotel...
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Zurich had probably the funniest pictograms, such as...
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On the left: Do Not Turn Out One's Pockets. On the...
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And finally, the only one that truly made sense: No...
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Half the group stands on an unreinforced, unconnected...
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The other half: Kacey, Jackie, Meredith, Stephanie,...
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The crazy flying lady-angel in the Zurich train station.
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Catherine and Stephanie hanging out by the river.
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While I am confident the water was cold, the color made...
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Very pretty bridge and water.
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An awesome example of vortex shedding in the river. The...
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A very pretty Georg Jensen necklace ($1500, or $1300 if...
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The Limmat again. The vortex shedding picture was taken...
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The Stauffacher-Brucke, or Stauffacher Bridge. This was...
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The river below is the Sihl. While the Limmat flows out...
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Stauffacher-Brucke!
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A view from down near the river (Maggie and Braxton in...
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Lamborghini, anyone? As Maggie was admiring it (a bit...
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Apparently it is uncommon to be able to see the...
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Ah, sailing.
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Looking back towards the city from our ferry boat. The...
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More mountains.
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I would like a boat like this. Also, good wind like...
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The Lindt Chocolate Factory! Had I known earlier that...
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Optimists! There was something comforting about...
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Looking bizarre with my collar buttoned up, yes.
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Stephanie, Maggie, and Catherine on the ferry.
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Delicious Swiss strawberries. Zurich was ridiculously...
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There was a playground between a restaurant we went to...
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Spinning! Somehow, I did not get a picture of the...
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In the airport. Luggage carts allowed on escalators! ...
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The visitor center from the front.
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Most of the girls, pre-tunnel exploring. I am now...
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Walking into the tunnel
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Types of rock the tunnel cuts through.
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How they cut through to form the tunnel using normal...
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How they cut through to form the tunnel using the crazy...
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I don't think they're quite ready for trains yet...
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Model of the crazy boring machine.