Switzerland Travels

Pontresina 2017: Here We Come 26th December: Zurich Time to break the routine and the idea of Christmas that you h ave to be everywhere with everyone. Time to reinvigorate.  We Flew to Zurich and stayed overnight with family enjoying a delicious home cooked meal and hospitality. All set and excited for the ski pilgrimage to Pontresina. 27th December: Pontresina Drove to pontresina. There had been a snow forecast and conditions were meant to be difficult for driving through the julier pass, so we decided to book the car on the train and go through the Vereina tunnel. The vereina tunnel is a railway tunnel in the canton of graubunden in eastern Switzerland. It is 19k in length and is the worlds longest meter gauge railway tunnel. It was built in 1991 and opened in 1999 costing CHF 812m. It is a single track with passing loops. Vereina Car Train Pontresina We arrived in Pontresina and made the usual trip to Gruber sports to hire the ski equipment for 6 days