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A video of the Bernina Express train ride

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One day, some day, I hope to make better films. For the moment this is what I manage. Here is a film from our tour with the Bernina Express.

 

 

 

Unexpected birding in Saint Moritz

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The weather was grey yesterday, rain in Tirano where our Bernina Express ride started, snow when we came up to Saint Moritz. 

Snow doesn´t stop us, stuborn Norwegian as we are. We put on some warm clothes, yes, we had read the weather forecast before packing, every Norwegian reads the weather forecast, it is just as important as out brown bread and cod liver oil for breakfast :-) After a nice, local lunch and a stroll in the town center, we continue down to the lake, and to my pure delight, I saw birds, many of them, some I had never seen before.

Photographing birds is not easy when it is icy cold and snowing, but I could not let that stop me, could I?

A little grebe, adult and baby, new to my list.

A grey wagtail, first time this year for me.

An Eurasian coot, and many more.

And today we woke up to this blue, blue sky.
We learned yesterday that Saint Moritz has at least 320 sun days every year, so for us to have two grey days in a row.......impossible.

 

Unwrapping the gift

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Here I am, already unpacking my adventurous birthday gift,

 

a train ride from Tirano in Italy to St. Moritz in Switzerland, and back again, on first class. On the Bernina Express, which is on the UNESCO World Heritage list.

We came to Tirano last night, slept there, had breakfast, did a walk in the town, which turned out to be beautiful, like all Italian towns :-), and then it was time to find the Bernina Express train. A train which took us up, up up all the way up to the Bernina Pass at 2253 meter over sea level.

The weather was grey and cloudy, snowing on the top, but who cares. Nature is beautiful in this kind of weather as well, and we enjoyed every minute of it.

We drove over this bridge, then into a tunnel, a 180 degree turn and moments later we could see down on it.

The Bernina Exprass started to cross the Alpine Pass as early as 1910, though the work of course started many years previous.

We are in St. Moritz now, will spend the night here. Our adventure continues tomorrow, but that is another tale.......

See you later.......

 

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Books on the Menu, my Visiting the World Through books blog