The start of a long overdue photo series on my trip to Switzerland and Italy in 2010. It was to be the last family trip overseas in some time, and I still treasure these moments.
The above spread was taken at the Rhine Falls, near the town of SchaffHausen in northern Switzerland and the largest waterfall in Europe.
After the Rhine Falls, we make our way to Titisee, which lies in the southern Black Forest of Germany. We reach the border customs, and the benefits of Schengen Area makes itself apparent. We make it through without a hitch and reach Titisee without much fanfare. By now it is dusk, and we wander around for a while, visiting the famous cuckoo clock shop.
We retire for the night at a hotel up a small mountain overlooking the city of Lucerne, but not before the bus is retrofitted with snow chains, in the middle of the dark, while we are making our way up.