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Italy Pisa and Florence

Post author:bengalinomad
Post published:December 20, 2008
Post category:City Europe 🌍Italy 🇮🇹travel

🇮🇹 🇮🇹 🇮🇹 I left for Pisa from Naples . This was 6 hrs train journey . I walked from station to the complex which was 30 mins walk. Construction for leaning tower of Pisa began in 12 century . This was the place where Galileo conducted his famous experiment by dropping two spheres of different masses to demonstrate gravity. The tower started leaning because of defective foundation and soft soil on one side. Eventually in 1990 restoration work begin and it was stabilized by correcting tilt and further improving the foundation. Florence was 2…

Italy – Naples and Pompeii

Post author:bengalinomad
Post published:December 19, 2008
Post category:City Europe 🌍Family / Leisure Italy 🇮🇹Landscape Luxury / Comfort travel

🇮🇹 🇮🇹 🇮🇹 Only reason I visited and stayed in Naples overnight was to arrange my visit to Pompei and Mount Vesuvius. Though there are few tourist spots within the city, I did not have any time to visit any of those places. Next day my first visit was to Mount Vesuvius. I arranged the trip from official tourism center, however the bus started late and then on the way driver stopped the bus and spent 1 hour smoking an talking over phone. Nevertheless it was a nice little hike from bus stop to…

Italy Rome

Post author:bengalinomad
Post published:December 18, 2008
Post category:City Europe 🌍Family / Leisure Italy 🇮🇹Luxury / Comfort travel

🇮🇹 🇮🇹 🇮🇹 It was almost the end of my trip. I reached to Rome by train from Florence. Rome was one of the very few bad travel experiences in my life. I was defrauded £500. I spent 2.5 days in Rome. The the most romantic of all Roman fountains. It was designed by the outstanding architect Nicole Salvi in 1732. The statue in the middle is the God Ocean with winged horses drawing his cockleshell. The old tradition says that throwing a coin into the fountain ensures your return to Rome. Capitol is the…

Vatican City

Post author:bengalinomad
Post published:December 17, 2008
Post category:City Europe 🌍Family / Leisure Italy 🇮🇹Landscape Luxury / Comfort travel

🇻🇦 🇻🇦 🇻🇦 This is the world's smallest independent state and headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church lying in the very heart of Rome on the west bank of the Tiber river. It is a walled city with six tremendous gates comprising of the Vatican Palace, St. Peter's Square, St Peter's Basilica and the Papal Gardens. I walked from my hotel towards Vatican. I crossed Ponte Sant'Angelo, the bridge which spans the river Tiber. The bridge is faced with travertine marble and spans the Tiber with five arches, three of which are Roman; it was approached…

Glacier Express

Post author:bengalinomad
Post published:November 25, 2008
Post category:Europe 🌍Family / Leisure Switzerland 🇨🇭travel

🇨🇭 🇨🇭 🇨🇭 After Haut route trek I spent 2 nights in Zermatt. From Zermatt I traveled by Glacier express to St. Mortiz. There are four sections from Zermatt to St- Mortiz. Section 1: Zermatt to Brig The journey starts near the Matterhorn, in the car free mountain village of Zermatt, at an altitude of 1605 m. The Matter valley leads to the town of Visp and is quite narrow at many places, with massive rock walls rising up to well over 4000 m. The highest peaks of the Swiss Alps can be found in…

Hiking around St. Mortiz

Post author:bengalinomad
Post published:November 21, 2008
Post category:Adventure City Europe 🌍Landscape Switzerland 🇨🇭travel

🇨🇭 🇨🇭 🇨🇭 I arrived in St Mortiz at the evening . It was a long train ride from Zermatt by Glacier Express. My home for next 2 - 3 days was St . Mortiz youth hostel. St. Mortiz is a luxury resort town which has hosted winter Olympic twice. Its frozen lake hosts cricket , polo during winter. The food was awesome at the youth hostel. Next day I went for a walk to Piz Nair. I took Funicular from St. Mortiz to Upper Corviglia station. From the upper station of the Corviglia…

Rhine Falls

Post author:bengalinomad
Post published:November 20, 2008
Post category:Europe 🌍Switzerland 🇨🇭travel

🇨🇭 🇨🇭 🇨🇭 I took the first train from St. Mortiz to Zurich. It was a 3.5 hour journey with a change at Chur. From Zurich I took wrong train and realized this after sometime. So I had to come back to Zurich again to board the train to Schloss Laufen am Rheinfall. This is a frequent train and takes one hour. The falls are located on the High Rhine on the border between the cantons of Schaffhausen and Zürich, between the villages of Neuhausen am Rheinfall (SH) and Laufen-Uhwiesen/Dachsen (ZH). It is largest waterfall in Europe with flow rate 600 Cubic meter /…

Bernina Express : St. Mortiz – Tirano – Lugano – St. Mortiz

Post author:bengalinomad
Post published:September 27, 2008
Post category:Adventure Europe 🌍Italy 🇮🇹Switzerland 🇨🇭travel

🇮🇹 🇨🇭 🇨🇭 This was a day trip from St. Mortiz. There are few variation of the line , I took the Bernina line. The train leaves St. Moritz and takes the line to Pontresina (1,774 m) in the Val Bernina (Bernina Valley). It ascends progressively through the valley to the Bernina Pass over the Morteratsch station (1,896 m), where the glacier and the highest summit of the Eastern Alps, Piz Bernina (4,093 m) are visible. Before arriving at the Bernina Pass, the train stops at Bernina Diavolezza (2,093 m) for cable-car connections to Diavolezza (2,921 m). The Bernina Express reaches the summit at the Ospizio Bernina station at 2,253…

Disnyland France

Post author:bengalinomad
Post published:March 23, 2008
Post category:Europe 🌍Family / Leisure France 🇫🇷Luxury / Comfort

🇫🇷 🇫🇷 🇫🇷 This is about 30 kilometer from Paris consists of two theme parks , Disneyland parks and Walt Disney Studio parks. Disneyland parks first of the two opened in 1992 . The park is organised as "themes" , "Adventureland", "Fantasyland", "Frontierland", "Discoveryland" and many rides within each of these themes. Disney Studio opened in 2002 . Other than themes organised across many different Disney production , there are many different shows. The most spectacular one was car and bike show. A stunt show that showed how action movies are filmed,…

Paris Versailles

Post author:bengalinomad
Post published:March 19, 2008
Post category:City Europe 🌍France 🇫🇷Landscape

🇫🇷 🇫🇷 🇫🇷 It is worth to spend a day in Versails . This is very easy to reach by train . The most common and easy way to get to Versailles is to take the RER C train that will take you to Chateau rive Gauche train station at Versailles. The palace contains about 2300 rooms . Since 1979, the Palace of Versailles has been listed as a World Heritage and is one of the greatest achievements in French 17th century art. Louis XIII's old hunting pavilion was transformed and extended by…