Friday I will go on my first France, Switzerland and Germany adventure! I am over the moon with excitement! Will be lodging in Belfort, France. Any travel tips? Will get only one day in Paris. So Iām looking to make the most of it but unfortunately I believe the Louvre will have to wait.
This is what excited stressing of the final stages of trip prep looks look like lol!
watch out for the German hostels...I saw a movie once...
I saw those movies (there were sequels) my fav was the one where the brunette victim out I'd her potential murderer and got to kill him! Karma, baby!
Are you on a Tour? And for how long? I will only go for 5 weeks and no tours ever. Too many lines and you can never see what you want. Go in the Off Season and you can stretch your visit and for half the cost. The Louve is on long line and you would have to go early in the am and you would never enjoy it as much. Switzerland is also very expensive any time of the year, but Germany has many Cathedrals which are all works of Art. The people are great, but again your on season so are the prices.
June is still cheaper and less crowded than July/August. I shall be in Bayeux on July 9th. Unfortunate, but my plans to visit the tapestry in March went awry.
@Petter Bayeau and Can. The Normandy Cemeteries will take your breath as will seeing the countryside. They sometimes host a Medieval Fair which is spectacular.
@Nevermind345 I've previously spent two days in the area around Caen, touring all the Normandy landing sites, cemeteries and museums, but haven't yet visited the Bayeux tapestry. Have you seen the museum in Dieppe in memory of the 1942 Canadian raid?
Another mind boggling place to visit is La Coupole, near St Omer, where the germans poured a 30 foot layer of reinforced concrete over a chalk hill, then excavated the chalk to create a bomb-proof complex where they could assemble and launch V1 and V2 rockets. The site would have launched a V1 every 15 minutes and a V2 every hour against London. When it was overrun by the allies, it was only ten days from "going live".
Hey beautiful how u doing
I'm doing fine if you were asking me, hope your feeling as good.
In Geneva (if you make it there) eat at Indian, Asian, or other non-European restaurants. Theyāre enormously less expensive and tend to be really good - even the more casual places. The old section of town is gorgeous to walk and thereās tons of shopping and night life. Have a great trip!
Belfort is a small, unremarkable town, but it does have a very good Leclerc supermarket and some reasonable restaurants.
I often stay overnight in Belfort, in the Ibis hotel, before driving into Switzerland's Jura province. There is a good motorway past Delemont, and then to Berne and Thun, where the motorway runs out. I continue to Interlaken (sitting between the lakes of Thun and Brienze, then past the Reichenbach falls (Where Sherlock Holmes and his sworn enemy Moriaty plunged to their deaths in Conan Doyle's novel) then over the Grimsel Pass and down into the valley of the River Rhone, right beside the gletsch glacier that is its source. We then drive a short way down the valley before climbing up to the Nufenen pass, and finally driving down the valley of the Ticino river to Como, where my sister lives. It is beautifully scenic. Here are some photos showing parts of my journey.
Enjoy your trip. Switzerland in June is truly beautiful. (The last photo was taken looking down on lake Thun and beyond to the Jungfrau, but it was on an unusually dull June day.) The one beside it is looking from the Grimsell pass down into the Rhone valley at Gletsch. The first photo is looking down the Ticino river valley, with the town of Airolo below. The second photo from the left is the descent from the Nufenen pass.)
You will have superb memories, but make sure you take a decent camera with a zoom lens to refresh it!!
PS I'm quarter Swiss, so I'm biased!!
Beware of strangers that can spot you as a happy tourist. But Europe always going to be the Bomb!!!