After the year 2021 without visiting my sister Florence in Zug in Switzerland, I finally returned to the Confoederatio Helvetica in March and April 2022. I stayed over a week. More than a family visit, I organised an excursion to French-speaking Switzerland, also known as Romandy, to visit Maxime and the vineyards of Lavaux in the canton of Vaud, near Lausanne. I also booked a journey on the world-famous Glacier Express from Sankt Moritz to Brig. Furthermore, I looked for a nice way in and out. The ÖBB Nightjet night train from Amsterdam to Zurich and the voyage home via Lyon in France.

It was great to be a full week in Switzerland. I first went to Zandvoort in the Netherlands and then took the night train from Amsterdam to Zurich. I did an excursion to Lausanne and Lavaux in Romandy. 

I visited Thun and Sankt Gallen. With the Glacier Express, the Thurbo Lake Line and the Voralpen-Express I completed some section of the Grand Train Tour of Switzerland. 

I was extremely lucky with very nice spring, almost summery weather. Just in the end winter and snow came back. The return was via Chamonix, Aix-les-Bains and Lyon.

Anyway, it was great. 

And there’s plenty left to do and see for quite a few visits. I suppose my sister living in Switzerland helps.

2022 Train Tour of Switzerland ft. Circuit Zandvoort and the Mont-Blanc Express

1. Zandvoort, home of the Formula 1 Dutch Grand Prix.
2. REVIEW | ÖBB Nightjet Amsterdam – Zurich night train.
3. SWITZERLAND 2022 | Thun and Thun Castle.
4. SWITZERLAND 2022 | The Lausanne Métro.
5. REVIEW | Hotel du Raisin in Lausanne.
6. SWITZERLAND 2022 | The Vineyard Terraces of Lavaux in Vaud.
7. SWITZERLAND 2022 | Two days in Lausanne.
8. Romandy.
9. SWITZERLAND 2022 | Sankt Moritz.
10. REVIEW | Hotel Arte in Sankt Moritz.
11. SWITZERLAND | The Glacier Express from Sankt Moritz to Brig (and to Zermatt).
12. SWITZERLAND | The Grisons or Graubünden.
13. SWITZERLAND 2022 | Thurbo Seelinie, discovering Switzerland’s northern lake route.
14. SWITZERLAND 2022 | Sankt Gallen.
15. SWITZERLAND 2022 | Voralpen-Express: Sankt Gallen – Rapperswil – Lucerne.
16. MONT-BLANC EXPRESS | Linking Martigny, Chamonix and Saint-Gervais-les-Bains in the Alps.
17. REVIEW | Urban Hôtel & Spa in Aix-les-Bains.

Danny touring Switzerland in 2013

1. Brussels – Luxembourg – Strasbourg – Basel;
2. The old Gotthard Line; 
3. Locarno to Brig, via the Centovalli, through Italy and the Simplon Tunnel;
4. Brig to Zermatt on the Mattherhorn and Gotthard Bahn;
5. Gornergratbahn;
6. Matterhorn Glacier Paradise;
7. Zermatt to Interlaken;
8. HOTEL REVIEW | M Gallery Hotel Royal – St. Georges Interlaken.
9. Jungfrau;
10. First cable car; 
11. Schilthorn Mountain and Trümmelbach Falls;
12. Schynige Platte Bahn;
13. Meiringen and the Reichenbach Falls; 
14. Zentralbahn to Lucerne and Engelberg; 
15. Lucerne and Kussnacht am Rigi; 
16. Rigi Mountain and Schwyz.

Danny touring Switzerland in 2018

1. Milan – Bernina – Sankt Moritz;
2. Hotel Soldanella Sankt Moritz;
3. Albula, Furka and Loetschberg passes;
4. Waldhotel Doldenhorn Kandersteg;
5. The Golden Pass line;
6. Golf Hôtel René Capt Montreux;
7. Swiss Riviera;
8. Lake Geneva and Geneva;
9. InterContinental Geneva;
10. TGV Lyria.

Me going to Switzerland in 2018, 2019 and 2020

• Antwerp to Zug by train;
• PHOTOS | Zug city tour;
• PHOTOS | Swiss Museum of Transport Verkehrshaus in Lucerne;
• VIDEO | Pilatus-Bahn – Mount Pilatus cogwheel railway in Switzerland;
• VIDEO | Gotthard Pass and Old Gotthard Tunnel in Switzerland;
• Landesmuseum Zürich and Zürich itself;
• Paris – Geneva – Lausanne with TGV Lyria first class on an Alstom TGV Duplex;
• REVIEW | Tralala Hotel Montreux;
• VIDEO | Snow white GoldenPass Line ride from Montreux to Zweisimmen, Interlaken and Lucerne in Switzerland;
• VIDEO | Mythical Mythen, Schwyz, Switzerland;
• Zürich – Frankfurt – Brussels with Deutsche Bahn’s ICE high speed trains;
• Antwerp – Brussels – Cologne – Basel – Zürich – Zug by train;
• Château de Gruyères Castle in Switzerland’s Fribourg canton;
• VIDEO | La Maison du Gruyère – Gruyère House in Gruyères, Fribourg, Switzerland;
• Walking on a frozen lake at Valbella and Lenzerheide (Lai) in Grisons, Switzerland;
• SWITZERLAND | Jungfraujoch, Europe’s highest railway station;
• SWITZERLAND | Rapperswil-Jona, Town of Roses;
• SWITZERLAND | Einsiedeln and its Abbey;
• EUROCITY EC-8 | Zürich to Cologne in SBB’s Panoramic Car;
• Bearhunting in Bern;
• Antwerp to Zug: the Frankfurt – Zurich Business Route;
• SWITZERLAND | Lindt Home of Chocolate in Kilchberg, canton Zurich;
• Kunsthaus Zürich art museum;
• ZUG | ‘Neuer Zuger Trail’ art and architecture walking rally by smartphone;
• Coping with train delays and cancellations: Zug – Antwerp when everything goes wrong.