Day 20: All Trains Lead to Switzerland…

Likely to be a short post today (but I am pretty good with flourish, so we’ll see…), and that was mostly because we spent the majority of it traveling.

We left BaseCamp this morning just after breakfast to head to the main train station. On the docket today was the longest travel day since our actual flight to get to Germany. We had a series of trains to ride today as we headed south to Switzerland. The first leg of the trip was the longest; we spent a little over 6 hours on our first train. It was a pleasant ride. Our car was pretty empty the whole time. We did sit behind a family that had two kids who looked to be about middle school age. Within the last 90 minutes or so of the ride, they were antsy and kept getting up and messing around, but they were respectful. They were on the train before us and only got off one stop prior, so I can only imagine how long they had been traveling today!

There were snacks on the train, but nothing substantial, so we were pretty hungry when we got to our first “layover,” which, ironically, was in Austria. There was a bakery at the station, so we got ourselves something and then had the great fortune of returning to the platform we had exited our previous train from in order to catch our next one. The next train took us to St. Gallen in Switzerland, where we then caught an S-bahn to our final destination, Appenzell.

But Alicia…Appenzell doesn’t sound like a tourist destination…why go there??? Because, dear friends, TOMORROW, Brandon and I get to meet up with someone very special to me who happens to originate from Appenzell. But, again, more on that tomorrow ;P For now, I will tell you we are staying at a beautiful place called Hotel Löwen, and Appenzell is the picture of a quaint alpine village. We saw the Alps as we rode in and we were both in pure awe! I am so excited to do some exploring tomorrow, though we did grab some dinner nearby, and it was AMAZING!

So, I think that’s about all I’ve got for today. Stay tuned for the special guest reveal tomorrow!