Moritz Kleine-SendrailGrowing excitement! Today I'm making use of my Berlin colleagues goodbye gift and taking the #GlacierExpress to #SanktMoritz!
Investigated the bathroom while in the #Furka Tunnel. Nice sink 😅
It's a loooong tunnel.
Steep climb after Andermatt towards #Nätschen. Very impressive.
Wow. Approaching the #Oberalppass, the highest point of the journey at over 2000m. With Hühnerfrikassee.
@diningcar Dessert is served in #Sedrun. The #Gotthard base tunnel runs below us.
#Disentis/Mustér - Rumantsch is the dominant language here, spoken by 75% of the local population. Interestingly, Portuguese immigration, mostly working in tourism, help to keep the language alive, as it's easier for them to learn than (Swiss) German.
#GlacierExpress gets another locomotive.
Slowly going downhill through #Grisons #Graubünden towards #Chur.
Never sure about how to pronounce the names of places in this area 😅
#Rheinschlucht - the Rhine gorges, swiss grand canyon 😉 (says the audio guide)
#Chur, capital of #Graubünden #Grisons. Many people getting off. We're making a U turn back to #Reichenau-Tamins before diverging to St. Moritz.
On this occasion I discover the partnership between #RhätischeBahn and the Japanese Hakone Tozan railway.
Hiker@Moritz_Kleine Did you mention the 4th national language in Switzerland?
Mark Kristensson@Moritz_Kleine soon you’ll be in Bergün, which is amazing. If you can, do the sledding between Preda and Bergün, it was one of the most fun activities my family has done in years
Tor Lillqvist@mkristensson @Moritz_Kleine It can also be fairly scary. Fail taking a curve, run into the snow edge (no injury, no problem as such), and fall off your toboggan. Then lie there laughing until you notice that better sledders run past at high speed, 10 cm from your head, with their metal-skidded monsters.
Trantion@Moritz_Kleine @diningcar I read that there was once a plan for a Sedrun station in the Gotthard Base Tunnel, with an 800m lift to the surface