Disentis, Switzerland
Our next destination was Disentis/Mustér. A small village in the Alps. Population a little bit more than 2000. Lowest point is at about 1000m and the highest point is a mountain Tödi at 3614m. In summer time Disentis is a great location for hiking and in the winter time village is full of downhill skiing people.
I got for a birthday gift a weekend in Disentis with my wife including a dinner in a nice restaurant. We roomed in a small, very nice apartment of our friends. Actually to Disentis we went straight from our fast visit to Finland. After we arrived to Zürich airport, we had to take three different trains to get to Disentis/Münster railway station. Last stage was very interesting with a small local train up to the mountains. It was late on Friday evening, you couldn´t see anything because of the darkeness outside, but you felt how much turns this train was doing in between of the mountains. And we had also four suitcases full of souvenirs from Finland with us :-)
I kind of "forgot" to take my real camera with me, and my wife almost killed me for that. So only camera that i had, was my Nokia 1520 windows Phone. It´s already two years old model, so even when that camera is 20MP with Carl Zeiss Optics and image stabilization, image quality is quite bad comparing to my Olympus mirrorless 16MP camera, which i´m normally using. In a screen of that phone, pictures are looking ok, but when you will move them to your computer, it´s a totally different story. Nokia is taking pictures also in DNG, raw high res. mode, but still the sharpness is soft and colors are flat and strange. One problem was the sun, well it´s not really sun´s fault, but the reflection and lens flare is very bad if the sun is just somewhere in front of you. If the sun is behind you, pictures are quite ok. Another problem is the noise, it´s getting terrible in low light and in the shadows. I´m using Photoshop Lightroom when i´m editing my pictures, with Lr you can try to do some improvements to your pics, but not much, if the original is really bad. Now i have Samsung Galaxy S6 edge + smartphone, and the picture quality is much much better, lens and sensor technology is getting forward all the time. But I learned from this trip, that in the future, I will take my "real" camera with me, always.
First picture is from Finland, from the Helsinki-Vantaa airport. We ate in a restaurant called Fly Inn Restaurant & Deli. Double Fly Inn Reindeer Burger, caramelised onion, truffle mayonnaise and smoked cheese with rustic chips.
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| Poroburger in Fly Inn Restaurant & Deli Airport Helsinki-Vantaa 9. October 2015 15:10 local time |
Next picture is taken quite much later in Switzerland in our last train to Disentis.
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| A route mad printed on the table in train to Disentis - 9. October 2015 21:49 local time |
In the morning, after a good night sleep, that was the view from our backyard.
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| Disentis - 10. October 2015 |
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| Disentis - 10. October 2015 |
We didn´t have any breakfast with us, so we had to find some. Let´s walk to the small city centre of Disentis to find a nice place for a breakfast. It´s already October, but weather was quite warm.
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| Disentis - 10. October 2015 |
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| Disentis - 10. October 2015 |
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| Disentis - 10. October 2015 |
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| Disentis - 10. October 2015 |
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| Disentis - 10. October 2015 |
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| Disentis - 10. October 2015 |
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| Disentis - 10. October 2015 |
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| Train station, Disentis - 10. October 2015 |
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| Disentis - 10. October 2015 |
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| Disentis - 10. October 2015 |
We found it: Cafe / Bäckerei Goldmann, Disentis. Breakfast was great. They had also a terrace, but the weather was a little bit too cold for that.
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| Cafe Goldmann, Via Cavardiras - 10. October 2015 |
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| Breakfast in Cafe Goldmann - 10. October 2015 |
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| The view from the Terrace of Cafe Goldmann - 10. October 2015 |
After a good breakfast with full stomach, we wanted to go up high to the mountains with the cable car and walk back down... Hiking ! We still didn´t have hiking poles, but maybe next time :-)
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We took the cable car to a Caischavedra panorama restaurant at 1860 meters above sea level. In winter time you could go more up to the mountains with ski lifts.
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Disentis Sedrun cable car station.
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In a cable car, Disentis Sedrun
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In a cable car, Disentis Sedrun
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| At 1860 m - 10. October 2015 |
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| At 1860 m - 10. October 2015 |
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| At 1860 m - 10. October 2015 |
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| At 1860 m - 10. October 2015 |
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| At 1860 m - 10. October 2015 |
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| At 1860 m - 10. October 2015 |
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| At 1860 m - 10. October 2015 |
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| At 1860 m - 10. October 2015 |
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| At 1860 m - 10. October 2015 |
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| At 1860 m - 10. October 2015 |
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| At 1860 m - 10. October 2015 |
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| Ski lifts - 10. October 2015 |
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| Ski lifts - 10. October 2015 |
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| At 1860 m - 10. October 2015 |
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| Ski lifts - 10. October 2015 |
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| Ski lifts - 10. October 2015 |
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| At 1860 m - 10. October 2015 |
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| At 1860 m - 10. October 2015 |
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| Cold beers At 1860 m, Prost ! Kippis ! - 10. October 2015 |
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| At 1860 m - 10. October 2015 |
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| At 1860 m - 10. October 2015 |
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| At 1860 m - 10. October 2015 |
Hiking time ! Duration 1h 30min
Hotel / restaurant Alpsu
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| Hiking at the mountains and in the forests of Disentis - 10. October 2015 |
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| Hiking at the mountains and in the forests of Disentis - 10. October 2015 |
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| Hiking at the mountains and in the forests of Disentis - 10. October 2015 |
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| Hiking at the mountains and in the forests of Disentis - 10. October 2015 |
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| Hiking at the mountains and in the forests of Disentis - 10. October 2015 |
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| Hiking at the mountains and in the forests of Disentis - 10. October 2015 |
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| Hiking at the mountains and in the forests of Disentis - 10. October 2015 |
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| Hiking at the mountains and in the forests of Disentis - 10. October 2015 |
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| Hiking at the mountains and in the forests of Disentis - 10. October 2015 |
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| Hiking at the mountains and in the forests of Disentis - 10. October 2015 |
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| Hiking at the mountains and in the forests of Disentis - 10. October 2015 |
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| Hiking at the mountains and in the forests of Disentis - 10. October 2015 |
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| Hiking at the mountains and in the forests of Disentis - 10. October 2015 |
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| Hiking at the mountains and in the forests of Disentis - 10. October 2015 |
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| Hiking at the mountains and in the forests of Disentis - 10. October 2015 |
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| Hiking at the mountains and in the forests of Disentis - 10. October 2015 |
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| Hiking at the mountains and in the forests of Disentis - 10. October 2015 |
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| Hiking at the mountains and in the forests of Disentis - 10. October 2015 |
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| Hiking at the mountains and in the forests of Disentis - 10. October 2015 |
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| Hiking at the mountains and in the forests of Disentis - 10. October 2015 |
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| Hiking at the mountains and in the forests of Disentis - 10. October 2015 |
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| Hiking at the mountains and in the forests of Disentis - 10. October 2015 |
Hotel / restaurant Alpsu
We went back to our apartment, we took a shower and relaxed a little bit. In the evening, we had a reservation in a family restaurant / hotel called Hotel Alpsu in via Alpsu 4. At least we thought we had... We went inside to a restaurant, but there was some problems with our e-mail reservation, they didn´t find it anymore. Restaurant was full of people and the owner was of course very sorry about what happened and he said that come back after one hour. Ok, fine, no problem, accidents happen. We went for a walk. After one hour, we came back and there was a free table for us. They gave us some drinks for free because of that mix-up. We had a great evening and the food was so good !! We took the whole thing with starters, wines, special meat main courses and desserts. Nice place, but if you want to go, make a reservation because it seems to be quite popular place.
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| Main course in Restaurant Alpsu - 10. October 2015 |
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| Dessert in Restaurant Alpsu - 10. October 2015 |
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| Dessert in Restaurant Alpsu - 10. October 2015 |
Alp Tgom Cable car
Next day and also our last day and the weather was so great. Again it was time for a high altitudes, cable cars and hiking. We were heading to a cable car which was build in 1957. From the Disentis train station, we took the train to the station of Sedrun, from the station we walked to the Alp Tgom cable car station.
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We arrived to a Alp Tgom cable car station at 11:00. There was about 20 people before us to go to a cable car. We read the timetable: Once between every hour, max eight persons plus the driver, great ! Luckily that timetable was wrong. This guy was taking people up to the mountain after every 20 minutes, and he was taking more than eight people. So we had to wait only about 20 minutes. Alp Tgom is at 1913 metres above sea level. Up there was a small kiosk, where we drank cups of coffee.
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| Alp Tgom cable car - 11. October 2015 |
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| Alp Tgom cable car station - 11. October 2015 |
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| Alp Tgom - 11. October 2015 |
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| Alp Tgom - 11. October 2015 |
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| Alp Tgom - 11. October 2015 |
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| Alp Tgom - 11. October 2015 |
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| Alp Tgom cable car - 11. October 2015 |
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| A cup of coffee at Alp Tgom - 11. October 2015 |
View was awesome, but it´s time to go back down. From the top, you will find a few options to walk down. Our route took about 1h 40min.
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Hiking in the Alp Tgom
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Train station of Sedrun
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Train station of Sedrun
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That was our day in the Alp Tgom. Our special weekend together was almost over, we went back to our apartment to pack our suitcases, and soon after that it was time to go home. I can just imagine how beautiful place Disentis is in winter time, but I have a funny feeling that I will experience that someday, I hope soon. It´s just a shame to live in Switzerland in winter time, because i don´t like to do downhill skiing :-) Maybe i should start...
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