Mountains.68
With some apologies, I’m going to throw a large post with a ton of photos at you. These are all the remaining photos that I took during my trip on the very expensive but quite remarkable Gornergrat Bahn, which connects from Zermatt in the valley below, to Gornergrat where (one of?) the highest hotels in the alps sits on a rocky ridge with views to the Gorner Glacier and more. Truly, I edited the photos down but felt each of the many I’m still sharing with you explores a different aspect of this particular journey and afternoon. Or maybe I just want to show lots of photos to make myself feel I got a lot out of the trip, given that the ticket was more expensive than what I’d pay to go from A’dam to Brussels…
From the Air.68
Last of the photos taken while dangling in a gondola on my way up to the Little Matterhorn and Glacier Paradise on November 1st :-). Definitely not yet the last of our Zermatt photos, which I am in fact still paring down for quality and duplication-reduction reasons. But you gotta admit, it’s a pretty spectacular region, eh?
Islands.78
Country Canals.88
The stream above gets channeled into the pond below, and I believe becomes part of the water source for surrounding villages including Zermatt. But not sure.
Village Views.98
These are all from walks during my first afternoon & evening in Bissone, the lovely mountain & lakeside village in which I spent four days and and nights on the east shore of Lake Lugano, across a causeway and bridge from Melide, which has the train station. Pretty sure we’ve shown you the snake emblem (above) of the town before; if not, you’ll see it again in future for sure b/c these aren’t the last of my photos from that eye-opening visit more than a month ago already.
Signs of the City.108
In traveling from Zermatt to Melide in early November, I changed trains at Domodosola, just south of the alps in Italy’s Piedmont region. I had roughly an hour’s layover here, during which I found an outside bench and took these photos while I ate the portable lunch I’d packed that morning before taking the first train down from Zermatt. In one of the shots of the train station below, you’ll see a reference to the Centovalli rail line that runs from here up to Locarno – a bit of which we’ve shown you before, when I came down the other direction later that week. 🙂
Bridges.8
Bridges.6
Oops, somehow I skipped this lovely new series when I ran through the “6” set, so now I need to catch up. Since we’ve shown you bridges in Paris and Berlin so far in this series, I’m home to Amsterdam for this first catch-up post, a lovely pedestrian bridge (bikes also, but the paths to the left side there aren’t paved and do wind a fair bit through a surprisingly wild patch of parkland) the park across the street from me.
Village Views.97
(so much world, so little time....) 