switzerland Archives - made up of moments places we visit, food we eat, drinks we consume and people we meet are all made up of moments in time Sun, 25 May 2025 06:05:31 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.7 https://ml7f1ibauelg.i.optimole.com/cb:PMcT.39c00/w:32/h:32/q:mauto/f:best/https://madeupofmoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/travel-blog-logo-square.png switzerland Archives - made up of moments 32 32 5 days in Switzerland https://madeupofmoments.com/5-days-in-switzerland/ https://madeupofmoments.com/5-days-in-switzerland/#comments Mon, 02 Mar 2020 03:20:03 +0000 https://madeupofmoments.com/?p=2732 I had no real expectations of Switzerland. I knew it was going to be beautiful and I had hoped we would see lots of gorgeous scenery. And it delivered. We flew into Geneva from Brussels at 7:45am. It was an easy flight just over an hour. Whenever we travel, we always prefer to leave our […]

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]]> https://madeupofmoments.com/5-days-in-switzerland/feed/ 4 Day trip to Zermatt and Luzern https://madeupofmoments.com/day-trip-to-zermatt/ Sat, 01 Jul 2017 04:40:59 +0000 http://madeupofmoments.com/?p=633 On our last 2 days in Switzerland we decided to spend one day in Zermatt (to visit the Matterhorn) and one day in Lucerne. Zermatt Zermatt is home of the Matterhorn, a peak in the Alps that straddles the Swiss and Italian border. The Matterhorn is the 10th highest peak, at 4478m high, in Switzerland […]

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]]> Swiss chocolate and cheese https://madeupofmoments.com/swiss-chocolate/ Sun, 25 Jun 2017 07:31:49 +0000 http://madeupofmoments.com/?p=614 As a part of our 5 days in Switzerland, another day trip we took from Lausanne was based around swiss chocolate and cheese – what could be better than that! I had read that one of the more scenic Swiss rail trips as being aboard the Swiss Panoramic Train on the GoldenPass Line. The GoldenPass […]

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]]> Lavaux wine region and Montreux https://madeupofmoments.com/lavaux-wine-region/ Sat, 10 Jun 2017 07:55:17 +0000 http://madeupofmoments.com/?p=590 A couple of weeks ago I wrote about Geneva, our first stop in Switzerland and then got a little side-tracked and hadn’t written about visiting the Lavaux and Montreux areas. Then this morning, while having a coffee, I noticed the travel section in The West had an article on the Lavaux wine region in Switzerland. […]

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]]> Geneva in one day https://madeupofmoments.com/geneva-in-one-day/ Sun, 30 Apr 2017 07:02:40 +0000 http://madeupofmoments.com/?p=550 Geneva was one of the cities we decided to visit for the day while visiting Switzerland. It is approximately 40mins from Lausanne by train and is situated on the beautiful Lake Geneva. As our time was limited and there was so much to do, we dropped off our suitcases after flying in from Brussels and […]

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