Swiss railways react to snow on the line. Pfffff.From us little acorns, who knows what will grow?Snuggle time.Bearded lizard.Just having a little salad before the fish course.What you think about this for a coat?You’re my best friend.ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ…Ah, Hastings, mon ami, call me Hercules Beetle Poirot.Leaves is fun!Summer seems so long ago now.What?Peacock Pheasant.Mexican Mole Lizard.S-t-r-e-t-c-hBest time of the day…Rugged Iceland.Hrensco, Czech Republic.Some babies are just SOOOOO lazy.
That poor cat, it has two heads 🙂 Wonderful stuff – that cliff in Iceland has a face in it – was it carved naturally or by someone? Loved the peacock and the latest installment of yoga for cats – you can actually buy books called that and indeed yoga for dogs. Topped off with some cute orang utans. I do envy folk that can fall asleep anywhere, though that might be a tad precarious…
The Swiss train is on the Landwasser viaduct on the Albula Line which carries Glacier Express and Bernina Express trains just about to plunge into yet another tunnel!
It’s great that ScotRail have started the Great Scenic Routes, but marketing these lines and running tourist trains would surely make a profit here as they do in so many other countries.
Fantastic trains in Switzerland. I really regret I didn’t get an opportunity to use any of them, but I remember on the way to the station to get the French TGV in Geneva, we got stuck in late afternoon traffic. It looked like I might miss the train. I said to my mate “maybe the train will be late” (It came from Lausanne). The driver nearly crashed the taxi. A train LATE? In SWITZERLAND? Who was this idiot with the strange accent?
Beautiful views of mountains and gorges! The Landwasser viaduct and tunnel is always impressive, but I wonder if the Swiss railroad surveyors were fired when they couldn’t find a route with a rail-friendly grade that didn’t involve a 200 ft tall viaduct leading directly into the side of a mountain that had to be tunneled. Or were the Swiss showing off a bit here for the sake of the picture postcard view? 😉
There’s a series some American company did, maybe 20 years ago, “Swiss Railway Journeys” for one of the cable channels. It looked at many of the lines and, to be honest, most of them had something pretty impressive like these tunnels or ridiculous gradients that no one in their right minds would build a railway on and expect it to work…except the Swiss.
MUNGUIN'S NEW REPUBLIC 
Lovely. Life reaffirmed. I can go to sleep all soothed and warm inside now.
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Ah, Ed, Munguin has always said that Tris is better than a sleeping draught! 🙂
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That poor cat, it has two heads 🙂 Wonderful stuff – that cliff in Iceland has a face in it – was it carved naturally or by someone? Loved the peacock and the latest installment of yoga for cats – you can actually buy books called that and indeed yoga for dogs. Topped off with some cute orang utans. I do envy folk that can fall asleep anywhere, though that might be a tad precarious…
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PP, I see the “face” in the cliff – to me it looks not unlike an orang utan.
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I thought it was a bit feline but glad someone else sees faces!
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Hmmm. I think probably that little one is clinging on tight to mum with the kind of grip that you or I couldn’t manage.
I hadn’t noticed the face in that mountain, which i suspect is natural rather than carved.
I wonder if they do Yoga for Munguins?
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Well they do yoga for penguins
yogadork.com/2018/01/19/now-you-can-do-yoga-with-penguins/
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Awww, isn’t Pedro just lovely…
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Off the top of my head, if I were asked to speculate, I would suspect that the two camels are in Petra.
The ”Rose Red City, half as old as time”, if I remember correctly.
Using the ( Auld Git ) defence here.
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Yes, John. I thought that too.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/world-heritage/petra-jordan/
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My theory is that Petra is a movie set created in 1988.
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Uh huh… well, that’s an interesting theory, Danny!!! 🙂
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Tris……Of course it would pose a problem for the theory if we find anyone who knew of Petra before the Indiana Jones movie. 😉
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Well, Danny… even the best theories can have hiccups. 🙂
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The Swiss train is on the Landwasser viaduct on the Albula Line which carries Glacier Express and Bernina Express trains just about to plunge into yet another tunnel!
It’s great that ScotRail have started the Great Scenic Routes, but marketing these lines and running tourist trains would surely make a profit here as they do in so many other countries.
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Fantastic trains in Switzerland. I really regret I didn’t get an opportunity to use any of them, but I remember on the way to the station to get the French TGV in Geneva, we got stuck in late afternoon traffic. It looked like I might miss the train. I said to my mate “maybe the train will be late” (It came from Lausanne). The driver nearly crashed the taxi. A train LATE? In SWITZERLAND? Who was this idiot with the strange accent?
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Beautiful views of mountains and gorges! The Landwasser viaduct and tunnel is always impressive, but I wonder if the Swiss railroad surveyors were fired when they couldn’t find a route with a rail-friendly grade that didn’t involve a 200 ft tall viaduct leading directly into the side of a mountain that had to be tunneled. Or were the Swiss showing off a bit here for the sake of the picture postcard view? 😉
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There’s a series some American company did, maybe 20 years ago, “Swiss Railway Journeys” for one of the cable channels. It looked at many of the lines and, to be honest, most of them had something pretty impressive like these tunnels or ridiculous gradients that no one in their right minds would build a railway on and expect it to work…except the Swiss.
https://www.thetvdb.com/series/swiss-railway-journeys/seasons/all
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Must be some great views from the observation cars! 🙂
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Yeah, I’d really like to have a holiday travelling on all the little railways in the different Cantons. Some of the scenery is fantastic.
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