st. moritz

Today we decided to get up early and go visit St. Moritz. This meant a 4 hour train trip through the alps. We went ahead and bought Swiss Youth Passes knowing that we'd be using the train and buses around town for the next four days plenty to make it worthwhile. We took a standard train to Chur, where we switched to a smaller, single level train on narrower tracks for tighter corners. This was nice because we could slide the windows down in order to take pictures. This trip lasted 2 hours and was pretty incredible.


We wished we could have taken more pictures, but the old man behind us didn't like when the window was down (too loud, I suppose). Anyway, after arriving in St. Moriz, we were a little unimpressed. As a town, it was pretty scattered and that made walking through it difficult. We did some wandering and went pretty high up, where we found some insane houses. After lunch (note to self: panini = sandwhich here), we did some more walking and ended up at the train station at around 5:00. We spent the next 4 hours on the train back where we thought we might have good later afternoon light for photos, but as it turns out, the shadows cast by the Alps made it difficult to find uniform light anywhere. That was it. We got to the train station in Zug, got some dinner and walked back to Reidmatt. Here are a couple photos taken from the train (above), and one of where we're living (below).