Day 10: Trains

Train travel...Trip transportation has been train travel from country to country.  We love watching the countryside change from flatland to mountains...country fields to cities. It is very interesting and most of what we have seen is quite beautiful!
Most of our trips are several hours so we amuse ourselves by writing in our journals, reading books, sleeping or discussing the things about the trip.
For the most part we all enjoy train travel, however there is one hated thing...hauling and loading suitcases! Imagine dragging a heavy suitcase behind you from your motel to the train station through the streets of London, Paris, Switzerland, Italy...occasionally getting lost...onto subways or tubes as we call them...upstairs and downstairs...on trains and off trains...up more stairs...for 2weeks!! I am convinced that the escalator still hasn't been invented in a few countries...every time we see one we stop and thank God for it! :) Lol We all agree that we will have muscles like Popeye by the time this trip is over and are quite confident in challenging our brothers to an arm wrestling match upon our return! :)

Pics of train travel

This is the hated bridge!! For some reason in Venice, Italy they think it is cool to put steps on their bridges. Upon arriving in Venice we had to climb this bridge...carrying our heavy suitcases!! And believe me it was no easy task! We reached the other side and stopped to rest while Al went to ask for directions to our motel. He came back with a funny grin on his face and we knew we were in big trouble...when he grins like that we girls always know that he's about to tell us something that he finds amusing but we won't like. Turns out that we had took a wrong turn and had to go back over the horrid bridge!! Ahh! Lets just say that after much groaning, a skinned knee, possibly a bruise or two we finally made it successfully back across. :) We have all vowed never to cross that bridge again!!