We’re not going anywhere for summer this year. We like the summer here in the UAE, with its 43 to 50 degrees C heat, naturally hot scalding bath water and the dust. Yeah, we’re that crazy.
Actually, dad, and niece Sweety are here for a visit. Told Dad, it’ll be HOT, but he didn’t believe how hot it could get! Sweety’s on a college break, so we brought her here from India (where it’s raining dogs and cats now) to see how heat and dust could actually be nice. If only that was true.
In actual fact, we didn’t plan anything. Besides, we’re saving (leave days and money) for a New Zealand trip to see sis Kim & family. And NZ flights are expensive, coz it’s so bloody far away. Meanwhile, here’re some pictures from my stock of holiday photos just for busy times like this.
Iselle Village, on the Italian-Swiss border, Piedmont Region, Italy
Continuing with our Europe trip posts from where I left off before. To recap, we were leaving Italy after a night in Milan. What was supposed to be a short visit at the Expo Milano 2015 in the morning before we left Italy, turned out to be a long complicated affair (we misunderstood where we had to meet and spent more than an hour looking for each other!). We then drove beside Lago Maggiore and here we are, at the Italian-Swiss border. How I wish we were in Europe now, sigh!
The Italian countryside, beside a gas station on the highway, near Villadossola town, Piedmont, Italy
Another photo of Iselle Village, Italian-Swiss Border
Here’s where we came across our first car-train! The Italian-Swiss Border at the Piedmont Region, coming from Italy. Switzerland apparently is full of car-trains, a train where you can drive your car up on, which then takes you, and your car, into a tunnel across and underneath the immense Swiss Alps, to your next destination.
Our car GPS led us to the car-train station, at Iselle di Trasquera, at the Italian border. But hey, I’m not gonna miss driving on the Swiss Alps for some train ride in a tunnel, …even if it’s at night, so, no way mate!
On hindsight, maybe we should’ve taken the car-train. The border was almost the last thing we could see before sunset. We travelled through the entire Simplon Pass at night! True, we noticed some nice hotel-like buildings and hill-slopes at very dim twilight, which must have been spectacular at daytime. But what a waste.
We were on our way to Zermatt, where the mighty Mt Matterhorn is. Zermatt is a car-free town. The nearest our car could drive to, was Täsch, where people could park their cars and take a train to Zermatt. We reached Täsch at about 11pm. By the time we parked, took our bags and all that, the train has left! The next train …12 midnight! …Hmmm, yup definitely should’ve taken the car-train!
There we were – Täsch Train Station, waiting for the next train
And here’s little Jayden at Täsch, Valais, Switzerland
Actually, dad, and niece Sweety are here for a visit. Told Dad, it’ll be HOT, but he didn’t believe how hot it could get! Sweety’s on a college break, so we brought her here from India (where it’s raining dogs and cats now) to see how heat and dust could actually be nice. If only that was true.
In actual fact, we didn’t plan anything. Besides, we’re saving (leave days and money) for a New Zealand trip to see sis Kim & family. And NZ flights are expensive, coz it’s so bloody far away. Meanwhile, here’re some pictures from my stock of holiday photos just for busy times like this.
Iselle Village, on the Italian-Swiss border, Piedmont Region, Italy
Continuing with our Europe trip posts from where I left off before. To recap, we were leaving Italy after a night in Milan. What was supposed to be a short visit at the Expo Milano 2015 in the morning before we left Italy, turned out to be a long complicated affair (we misunderstood where we had to meet and spent more than an hour looking for each other!). We then drove beside Lago Maggiore and here we are, at the Italian-Swiss border. How I wish we were in Europe now, sigh!
The Italian countryside, beside a gas station on the highway, near Villadossola town, Piedmont, Italy
Another photo of Iselle Village, Italian-Swiss Border
Here’s where we came across our first car-train! The Italian-Swiss Border at the Piedmont Region, coming from Italy. Switzerland apparently is full of car-trains, a train where you can drive your car up on, which then takes you, and your car, into a tunnel across and underneath the immense Swiss Alps, to your next destination.
Our car GPS led us to the car-train station, at Iselle di Trasquera, at the Italian border. But hey, I’m not gonna miss driving on the Swiss Alps for some train ride in a tunnel, …even if it’s at night, so, no way mate!
On hindsight, maybe we should’ve taken the car-train. The border was almost the last thing we could see before sunset. We travelled through the entire Simplon Pass at night! True, we noticed some nice hotel-like buildings and hill-slopes at very dim twilight, which must have been spectacular at daytime. But what a waste.
We were on our way to Zermatt, where the mighty Mt Matterhorn is. Zermatt is a car-free town. The nearest our car could drive to, was Täsch, where people could park their cars and take a train to Zermatt. We reached Täsch at about 11pm. By the time we parked, took our bags and all that, the train has left! The next train …12 midnight! …Hmmm, yup definitely should’ve taken the car-train!
There we were – Täsch Train Station, waiting for the next train
And here’s little Jayden at Täsch, Valais, Switzerland
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