September 16, 2022
Even though I only spent a day in St Moritz, Switzerland, it deserves its own post. For one thing, it was one more country visited, and two, it was amazingly beautiful! I would go again in a heartbeat. Switzerland is just gorgeous and even though everyone on our Canadian Rockies trip kept saying "who needs to go to Switzerland when we have the Rockies right here?" I believe Switzerland wins this contest hands down 😀
I took a day trip from Milan to a town called Tirano whose claim to fame is having a pretty church and being a gateway stop on the way to Switzerland (oh, and it's also a UNESCO world heritage site 😂). The Bernina express train goes from Tirano to St Moritz and then further afield. There is whole network of stops that stretches from St Moritz to Bern to other parts of the country. One cool thing about my ride was it is one of the highest altitude UNESCO railway lines in the world (almost 7400 ft high!). St Moritz is clearly an enclave for the rich, but is also famous for its ski slopes and for being the site of two winter Olympic games. The weird thing for me was we got 2 hours to wander around but there were no reasonably priced shops or restaurants 😑 I finally found the grocery store and a subpar doner kebab shop and that sufficed. I looked at souvenirs and considered buying a Swiss army knife (no shortage of those in Switzerland) but I was pretty sure it would be confiscated on our very next flight 😜.
The train and the tour was pretty uncrowded (maybe the tourist season is winding down) so we were able to nicely spread out and not climb over each other for photos. It made the 3 hour bus drive back to Milan much less onerous. I would totally come back and do other routes on this train, maybe even in winter when I'm sure it's a whole different kind of beautiful!
Photos below (which don't really do it justice 🚞). Enjoy!
Deena
Veal Milanese (last photo from Milan LOL)
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