Today was a rainy day again…we spent the day touring the Residence. The Munich Residence was the residence and seat of government of the Bavarian dukes, electors, and kings from 1508 to 1918. Over the centuries, the princes transformed a castle in the northeast corner of the city fortifications into a magnificent royal residence and…

Today we spent most of the day training from Interlaken to Munich – for six hours to be exact. The first train was nice and empty, but the second train was jam packed. We got in, dropped our stuff at our hotel and went out to explore the old town. It was raining when we…

Today is our last day in Switzerland and, most importantly, our last night in a glorified hostel room with paper thin walls, horrible beds, and tiny tub. We took it easy and got up around eight. We trained up to Grindelwald, walked around the town and then took a walk through a mountain cave next…

Today we got up early to try and beat some of the crowds, and went all the way up to Schilthorn. Some fun facts, it was in the mid 30’s there, still very much snow all over and a James Bond film was shot here (not a good one). We stayed up there a few…

Today was a beautiful day (we actually saw sunshine), and we took full advantage! We explored Lauterbrunner Valley, which usually has a few waterfalls, but because of all the recent rain. There were waterfalls everywhere. At one point we could see 16 waterfalls. After two hours of walking, we caught a cable car up the…

Well, Switzerland is the place where basically ALL of our activities are outdoors…you know mountains and such. And it has been raining for 3 days…puts a bit of a damper on what we can do. But we are making the best of it and doing what we can…without too much complaining… We could not do…

Here’s the mountain we were hoping to climb today…it was cloud covered, it continued to rain on and off today. Instead we went to Fort Fűrigen. It is a fort built into the mountain that was built in 1941 by the Swiss, to protect themselves from the Axis Powers. After the fort, we relaxed and…

Today we left France and moved on to Switzerland. The day got off to a bumpy start. We called an Uber, but it would take twenty minutes to arrive because of an open market in the entire old town. So, we had to walk a mile to the train station with our luggage. When we…

Today we took a train ride over to Colmar (not Cologne despite how many times Matthew said that today) to take in the sites, it did not disappoint. It was a small town and far too crowded by the afternoon, but was very cute and worth the stop. Since we were in little Venice, we…

We started in The Netherlands then continued to Belgium, Germany and now we have made it to France! Welcome to Strasbourg! But first, getting there. We are now one for two running to a train. Our train from Essen was running late and we were going to miss our connecting train. As we got off…