After spending Josie’s birthday in Lausanne, the next day we took the Goldenpass scenic railway from Montreux to Interlaken – the lauchpad into deep Swiss Alps.
We stayed in the small quiet village, Gimmelwald, up in the mountain with an
Rhine Cruise, June 2011
From Rick Steves:
While the Rhine is over 800 miles long, the 36-mile stretch from Mainz to Koblenz is by far the most interesting. This is the Romantic Rhine, a powerful stretch of the river slashing a deep and scenic gorge.
Ambroise-Blois, Loire Valley, France, August 2010
We visited Château de Chenonceau, in central France, which is centered around the city of Tour, famous for its “countless” Chateaus.
The Loire river also runs through the region. On the west bank of the river lies the wineries for producing
New Orleans (2nd visit), 2009
Six years after our first visit to the Crescent City in 2003, we are back again:
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