WEBVTT 00:05.166 --> 00:07.100 align:start position:20% line:10% size:57.5% HELLO. I'M JEFF WILSON, AND I'M ON THE GRAND TRAIN 00:07.200 --> 00:08.866 align:start position:20% line:10% size:50% TOUR OF SWITZERLAND. 00:08.966 --> 00:11.066 align:start position:20% line:10% size:55% NOW, ON THIS TRIP, I'M LOOKING FOR LOTS OF OUTDOOR 00:11.166 --> 00:12.633 align:start position:20% line:10% size:27.5% ADVENTURE-- BUT WHEN YOU'RE ON 00:12.733 --> 00:13.900 align:start position:20% line:10% size:55% THE SWISS RAIL SYSTEM, 00:14.000 --> 00:16.333 align:start position:20% line:10% size:52.5% GETTING THERE IS MORE THAN HALF THE FUN. 01:00.433 --> 01:03.633 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:75% IMAGINE YOU'RE A HOLLYWOOD ART DIRECTOR TRYING TO CONJURE UP 01:03.733 --> 01:07.500 align:start position:10% line:10% size:75% AN EXCITING BACKDROP FOR A NEW ADVENTURE FANTASY...OR A THEME 01:07.600 --> 01:10.333 align:start position:10% line:10% size:67.5% PARK DESIGNER CONTEMPLATING THE PERFECT BLEND 01:10.433 --> 01:13.100 align:start position:30% line:10% size:35% OF ATMOSPHERE, THRILLS, AND FUN. 01:13.200 --> 01:16.266 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:62.5% WELL, YOU COULD HARDLY DO BETTER THAN SWITZERLAND. 01:16.366 --> 01:18.466 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:40% THIS IS EUROPE'S YEAR-ROUND PLAYGROUND. 01:18.566 --> 01:21.600 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:70% IT HAS ENDLESS OPPORTUNITIES FOR HIKING, SKIING, 01:21.700 --> 01:24.433 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:70% WATER SPORTS, OR PRETTY MUCH ANY OUTDOOR ACTIVITY YOU 01:24.533 --> 01:25.800 align:start position:30% line:84.67% size:30% CAN IMAGINE. 01:39.866 --> 01:41.966 align:start position:20% line:74% size:42.5% JEFF, VOICE-OVER: I'VE TRAVELED THROUGH SWITZERLAND BEFORE, 01:42.066 --> 01:45.500 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:72.5% BUT IT KEEPS PULLING ME BACK. 01:45.600 --> 01:48.400 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:70% AS AN AUTHOR OF ECO-ORIENTED BOOKS AND HOST OF 01:48.500 --> 01:51.200 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:65% HOME IMPROVEMENT TV SHOWS, I'M FASCINATED 01:51.300 --> 01:55.033 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:57.5% WITH SWITZERLAND'S WORK IN GREEN ENERGY, PARTICULARLY 01:55.133 --> 01:58.233 align:start position:20% line:84.67% size:57.5% WITH ITS TRAIN SYSTEMS. 01:58.333 --> 02:01.800 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:62.5% AND AS AN OUTDOORS LOVER, WELL, THIS PLACE HAS IT ALL. 02:17.066 --> 02:19.366 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:50% SWITZERLAND'S PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM IS 02:19.466 --> 02:21.800 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:40% HAILED AS ONE OF THE WORLD'S FINEST. 02:21.900 --> 02:25.300 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:70% IT'S A MIND-BOGGLING NETWORK OF RAILROAD, BUS, AND TRAM 02:25.400 --> 02:29.300 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:67.5% LINES WITH PUNCTUALITY THAT WOULD MAKE A WATCHMAKER PROUD. 02:29.400 --> 02:31.100 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:60% IT MAKES EVERY CORNER OF THIS MOUNTAINOUS 02:31.200 --> 02:32.600 align:start position:20% line:84.67% size:47.5% COUNTRY ACCESSIBLE. 02:38.833 --> 02:42.166 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:55% TO KICK OFF THIS TRIP, I FLEW INTO ZURICH AIRPORT 02:42.266 --> 02:44.500 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:47.5% AND BOARDED A TRAIN HEADING NORTHEAST. 02:47.166 --> 02:50.366 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:72.5% THE OFFICIAL GRAND TRAIN TOUR OF SWITZERLAND COVERS 8 02:50.466 --> 02:52.900 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:40% DIFFERENT ROUTES THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY. 02:53.000 --> 02:55.233 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:52.5% YOU CAN PICK IT UP AT ANY POINT AND CHOOSE ANY 02:55.333 --> 02:58.166 align:start position:30% line:84.67% size:42.5% TRAVEL DIRECTION. 02:58.266 --> 03:01.000 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:75% I'M OFF TO EXPLORE LOTS OF NEW DESTINATIONS, AS WELL AS 03:01.100 --> 03:03.566 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:70% RE-RIDE A FEW OF MY FAVORITE TRAINS, ALL IN THE GOAL 03:03.666 --> 03:07.100 align:start position:30% line:79.33% size:37.5% OF FINDING LOTS OF OUTDOOR FUN. 03:07.200 --> 03:08.600 align:start position:20% line:10% size:42.5% JEFF, VOICE-OVER: OUR TRAIN IS HEADED TO 03:08.700 --> 03:10.200 align:start position:20% line:10% size:60% NORTHEASTERN SWITZERLAND 03:10.300 --> 03:14.466 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:72.5% AND THE TOWN OF SCHAFFHAUSEN. 03:14.566 --> 03:17.400 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:60% ONE SWISS TRAVEL PASS IS ENOUGH FOR AN ENTIRE JOURNEY, 03:17.500 --> 03:20.433 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:62.5% EVEN IF DIFFERENT TRAINS, BUSES, AND BOATS ARE INVOLVED. 03:20.533 --> 03:22.733 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:50% AND IT GIVES YOU THE FLEXIBILITY TO HOP ON AND OFF 03:22.833 --> 03:23.800 align:start position:30% line:84.67% size:35% ALONG THE WAY. 03:28.233 --> 03:30.200 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:55% [WOMAN SPEAKING GERMAN ON P.A. SYSTEM] 03:30.300 --> 03:32.500 align:start position:40% line:79.33% size:15% WOMAN: NEXT STOP, RHEINFALL. 03:43.600 --> 03:46.733 align:start position:20% line:74% size:42.5% JEFF, VOICE-OVER: THE NORTHEAST IS THE PLACE TO SLIP AWAY FROM THE FAMILIAR 03:46.833 --> 03:50.733 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:75% GUIDEBOOK SITES, DODGE TOURIST CROWDS, AND UNCOVER A QUIET, 03:50.833 --> 03:54.133 align:start position:20% line:84.67% size:57.5% UNHURRIED PACE OF LIFE. 03:54.233 --> 03:57.966 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:65% IT'S FULL OF HIDDEN GEMS-- LESSER KNOWN, BUT IMPECCABLY 03:58.066 --> 04:00.700 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:35% WELL-PRESERVED VILLAGES AND TOWNS. 04:06.400 --> 04:08.833 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:50% WITH ITS TRADITIONAL BROWN-ROOFED HOUSES 04:08.933 --> 04:12.566 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:62.5% AND EXTRAVAGANTLY PAINTED FACADES, SCHAFFHAUSEN LOOKS AS 04:12.666 --> 04:16.233 align:start position:20% line:74% size:52.5% IF IT'S STILL WAITING FOR A MEDIEVAL MERCHANT TO PULL INTO TOWN. 04:19.000 --> 04:22.533 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:52.5% THE COMPACT ALDSTADT, OR OLD TOWN, EXUDES 04:22.633 --> 04:24.466 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:72.5% A CONFIDENT SENSE OF HISTORY. 04:24.566 --> 04:26.900 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:42.5% STATUES RISE FROM FLOWER-RIMMED FOUNTAINS, 04:27.000 --> 04:29.166 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:57.5% AND MANY OF THE STREETS ARE PEDESTRIAN-ONLY. 04:40.200 --> 04:43.233 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:55% SCHAFFHAUSEN'S EMBLEM, THE MUNOT FORTRESS, 04:43.333 --> 04:45.266 align:start position:20% line:84.67% size:55% CAN BE SEEN FOR MILES. 04:45.366 --> 04:47.600 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:47.5% IT WAS BUILT NEARLY 500 YEARS AGO 04:47.700 --> 04:49.766 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:75% TO A DESIGN BY ALBRECHT DURER, 04:49.866 --> 04:52.566 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:70% THE GREAT ARTIST OF EUROPE'S NORTHERN RENAISSANCE. 04:56.200 --> 04:58.266 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:37.5% THE FORT OFFERS PANORAMIC VIEWS FIT 04:58.366 --> 05:00.066 align:start position:20% line:84.67% size:57.5% FOR A NOBLEMAN'S GUARD. 05:00.166 --> 05:04.300 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:70% THEY SPAN ACROSS A MOSAIC OF ROOFTOPS, VINE-DRAPED HILLS, 05:04.400 --> 05:06.200 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:67.5% AND A LONG RIBBON OF RIVER. 05:08.666 --> 05:11.200 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:47.5% THE RHINE RIVER WAS A TRADING SUPERHIGHWAY 05:11.300 --> 05:12.400 align:start position:20% line:84.67% size:47.5% IN THE MIDDLE AGES. 05:12.500 --> 05:15.300 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:70% AND SCHAFFHAUSEN WAS A MAJOR DEPOT FOR BARGES WHICH, 05:15.400 --> 05:18.300 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:60% BECAUSE OF NEARBY RAPIDS AND WATERFALLS, HAD TO UNLOAD 05:18.400 --> 05:19.900 align:start position:30% line:84.67% size:42.5% THEIR CARGO HERE. 05:20.000 --> 05:23.866 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:67.5% FIRST ON MY ADVENTURE LIST: A BOAT RIDE TO THOSE FALLS. 05:27.733 --> 05:30.733 align:start position:20% line:74% size:42.5% JEFF, VOICE-OVER: THE RHEIN FALLS IS THE LARGEST WATERFALL IN EUROPE. 05:30.833 --> 05:35.200 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:67.5% THE FALLS ARE ABOUT 75 FEET TALL AND 450 FEET WIDE. 05:37.300 --> 05:40.166 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:62.5% OUR BOAT STEERS VERY NEAR THE FALLS, PLUNGING INTO 05:40.266 --> 05:42.933 align:start position:20% line:84.67% size:50% THE BILLOWING SPRAY. 05:43.033 --> 05:46.300 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:65% HERE YOU CAN FEEL THE FULL IMPACT OF THOSE POSITIVE IONS 05:46.400 --> 05:48.766 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:67.5% AS WATER SURGES ALL AROUND. 05:48.866 --> 05:51.366 align:start position:20% line:84.67% size:57.5% [LAUGHTER AND CHEERING] 05:54.666 --> 05:57.666 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:57.5% LANDING ON A LARGE ROCK IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FALLS, 05:57.766 --> 06:00.966 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:65% YOU'RE TASKED WITH A SHORT CLIMB--A FAIR EXCHANGE 06:01.066 --> 06:03.466 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:50% FOR THE EXHILARATING VIEWS FROM ABOVE. 06:15.233 --> 06:17.666 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:40% THESE FALLS EVEN COME WITH A GHOST. 06:17.766 --> 06:21.066 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:70% ACCORDING TO LEGEND, A YOUNG FISHERMAN FELL ASLEEP ONE DAY 06:21.166 --> 06:23.066 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:55% WITH HIS BOAT ANCHORED ABOVE THE FALLS. 06:24.933 --> 06:27.733 align:start position:20% line:74% size:42.5% JEFF, VOICE-OVER: IT BROKE LOOSE, AND HE AWOKE IN HORROR TO FIND HIMSELF 06:27.833 --> 06:30.800 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:57.5% IN A TERRORIZING TUMBLE DOWN THE FALLS--WHICH HE 06:30.900 --> 06:33.000 align:start position:20% line:84.67% size:55% MIRACULOUSLY SURVIVED. 06:33.100 --> 06:36.066 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:75% AFTER BOASTING ABOUT IT TO THE DOUBTFUL TOWNSPEOPLE, HE FELT 06:36.166 --> 06:39.666 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:72.5% HE NEEDED TO PROVE HIS CLAIMS BY REPEATING THE STUNT. 06:39.766 --> 06:41.833 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:72.5% THIS TIME HE WASN'T SO LUCKY. 06:43.766 --> 06:46.200 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:65% NOW, DURING THE FULL MOON, PEOPLE CLAIM TO SEE A YOUNG 06:46.300 --> 06:49.533 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:55% MAN AND HIS GHOST BOAT PLUNGING DOWN THE FALLS. 06:53.066 --> 06:56.166 align:start position:20% line:74% size:42.5% JEFF, VOICE-OVER: THE 1,100-YEAR-OLD CASTLE ABOVE THE FALLS WAS 06:56.266 --> 06:59.933 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:52.5% THE PRIZED WATERFRONT REAL ESTATE OF ITS DAY. 07:00.100 --> 07:02.266 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:40% WOMAN: IT'S VERY WELL POSITIONED, 07:02.366 --> 07:04.133 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:47.5% AS YOU CAN IMAGINE. 07:04.233 --> 07:06.300 align:start position:10% line:10% size:42.5% IT'S HARD TO TAKE IT OVER HERE. 07:06.400 --> 07:07.533 align:start position:60% line:10% size:15% RIGHT. 07:07.633 --> 07:10.466 align:start position:10% line:10% size:52.5% SO MANY PEOPLE WANTED TO HAVE THIS CASTLE, 07:10.566 --> 07:13.100 align:start position:10% line:10% size:62.5% SO MANY FIGHTS WERE THERE FOR THIS CASTLE. 07:19.033 --> 07:20.500 align:start position:50% line:10% size:22.5% WHOO HOO! 07:23.166 --> 07:24.666 align:start position:20% line:10% size:50% JEFF, VOICE-OVER: IN THE HILLS NEXT TO THE FALLS, 07:24.766 --> 07:26.733 align:start position:20% line:10% size:55% AN ADVENTURE ROPE PARK SENDS YOU FLYING. 07:26.833 --> 07:29.166 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:42.5% WE'RE ABOUT TO DO THE BIG ZIP-LINE. 07:29.266 --> 07:30.233 align:start position:20% line:84.67% size:55% IT'S THE LONG ONE THAT 07:30.333 --> 07:31.600 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:40% GOES ALL THE WAY OUT INTO THE DISTANCE, 07:31.700 --> 07:33.233 align:start position:30% line:79.33% size:40% AND I'M NOT SURE WHERE IT ENDS. 07:33.333 --> 07:35.700 align:start position:30% line:79.33% size:40% JEFF: HERE I GO. SEE YOU LATER! 07:48.400 --> 07:49.900 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:42.5% JEFF, VOICE-OVER: THE CREATORS OF THIS PARK 07:50.000 --> 07:52.200 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:80% LET THEIR IMAGINATIONS RUN WILD, 07:52.300 --> 07:54.833 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:50% CONSTRUCTING A CRAZY OBSTACLE COURSE OF ROPE, 07:54.933 --> 07:56.766 align:start position:30% line:84.67% size:40% WOOD, AND CABLE. 07:56.866 --> 07:59.066 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:40% IN THE SAFETY OF A SWISS-DESIGNED HARNESS, 07:59.166 --> 08:00.466 align:start position:20% line:84.67% size:62.5% YOU CAN TEST YOUR COURAGE 08:00.566 --> 08:02.700 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:50% BY NAVIGATING AERIAL TRAILS WITH MORE THAN 08:02.800 --> 08:05.333 align:start position:20% line:84.67% size:62.5% 140 DIFFERENT CHALLENGES. 08:08.666 --> 08:10.900 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:57.5% THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT CLIMBING TREES THAT BRINGS 08:11.000 --> 08:12.433 align:start position:20% line:84.67% size:62.5% THE KID OUT IN ALL OF US. 08:12.533 --> 08:13.500 align:start position:30% line:79.33% size:30% JEFF: READY? HA HA HA! 08:13.600 --> 08:15.100 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:25% HERE I GO! HERE GOES NOTHING! 08:15.200 --> 08:16.900 align:start position:20% line:84.67% size:47.5% THANK YOU! SEE YOU! 08:17.000 --> 08:19.400 align:start position:40% line:84.67% size:12.5% WHOA! 08:19.500 --> 08:22.366 align:start position:40% line:84.67% size:22.5% WHOO HOO! 08:22.466 --> 08:24.233 align:start position:40% line:79.33% size:22.5% WHOO HOO! 08:24.333 --> 08:26.766 align:start position:40% line:84.67% size:12.5% YEAH! 08:26.866 --> 08:28.433 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:55% JEFF, VOICE-OVER: BACK ON THE SCHAFFHAUSEN PIER, 08:28.533 --> 08:30.033 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:70% MY SWISS TRAVEL PASS LETS ME 08:30.133 --> 08:33.466 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:57.5% BOARD A BOAT FOR A TRIP ALONG THE HIGH RHINE. 08:33.566 --> 08:34.933 align:start position:40% line:79.33% size:35% WELL, YOU HAVE A NICE OFFICE HERE. 08:35.033 --> 08:37.100 align:start position:40% line:74% size:27.5% IT'S A NICE PLACE TO WORK, A NICE VIEW. 08:37.200 --> 08:40.066 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:45% YES. IT'S THE BEST PLACE ON THE BOAT. 08:40.166 --> 08:42.200 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:22.5% HA HA HA! 08:42.300 --> 08:43.633 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:42.5% JEFF, VOICE-OVER: THE RHEIN AMBLES AND BENDS 08:43.733 --> 08:45.700 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:72.5% ALONG PASTURES AND WOODLANDS, 08:45.800 --> 08:48.233 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:67.5% A SERENE LANDSCAPE CHISELED BY THE MIGHTY RIVER 08:48.333 --> 08:51.033 align:start position:30% line:84.67% size:35% OVER THE AGES. 08:51.133 --> 08:53.933 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:72.5% WE DRIFT THROUGH A WATERCOLOR CANVAS COME TO LIFE, 08:54.033 --> 08:57.366 align:start position:20% line:74% size:62.5% PASSING BY TIME-BURNISHED VILLAGES TUCKED INTO THE RIVERBANKS. 08:59.400 --> 09:01.266 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:52.5% MMM. AND IF TRAVELING ON THE RIVER 09:01.366 --> 09:04.000 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:42.5% AND GAZING AT ALL THIS WONDERFUL SCENERY 09:04.100 --> 09:06.166 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:67.5% MAKES YOU TIRED AND HUNGRY, YOU CAN COME DOWN TO THE GALLEY 09:06.266 --> 09:07.833 align:start position:20% line:84.67% size:60% AND HAVE A LITTLE SNACK. 09:07.933 --> 09:11.233 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:80% I'M HAVING THIS FANTASTIC PASTRY AND A GREAT CUP OF COFFEE. 09:29.900 --> 09:32.233 align:start position:40% line:79.33% size:20% BYE-BYE. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 09:32.333 --> 09:33.300 align:start position:50% line:84.67% size:20% BYE-BYE. 09:43.533 --> 09:44.733 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:42.5% JEFF, VOICE-OVER: STEIN AM RHEIN LOOKS LIKE 09:44.833 --> 09:47.200 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:47.5% A SET FROM A PERIOD COSTUME DRAMA. 09:49.166 --> 09:51.866 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:62.5% ONE OF THE BEST-PRESERVED VILLAGES IN EUROPE, 09:51.966 --> 09:56.733 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:80% IT'S A CONCLAVE OF HALF-TIMBERED HOUSES HUDDLED TOGETHER. 09:56.833 --> 10:00.233 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:77.5% HERE YOU CAN WANDER THROUGH THE SWITZERLAND OF CENTURIES AGO... 10:00.333 --> 10:02.466 align:start position:30% line:84.67% size:37.5% [PLAYING MUSIC] 10:02.566 --> 10:04.966 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:42.5% SPICED WITH A FEW CONTEMPORARY TWISTS. 10:10.533 --> 10:13.566 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:50% OUTDOOR ADVENTURE IS MY WATCHWORD THIS TRIP, 10:13.666 --> 10:15.566 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:60% AND THE BIKE PATHS ALONG THE RHINE AND AROUND LAKE 10:15.666 --> 10:19.100 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:70% CONSTANCE ARE AMONG THE BEST CYCLING TRACKS IN EUROPE. 10:21.166 --> 10:23.566 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:70% THOUGH BIKES AREN'T INCLUDED AS PART OF THE GRAND TOUR, 10:23.666 --> 10:25.133 align:start position:20% line:84.67% size:52.5% THEY'RE EASY TO RENT. 10:25.233 --> 10:27.000 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:62.5% YOU CAN PICK UP A BIKE IN TOWN AND RIDE IT TO YOUR 10:27.100 --> 10:28.333 align:start position:30% line:84.67% size:42.5% NEXT DESTINATION. 10:28.433 --> 10:30.933 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:75% OR IF YOU WANT A SHORTER RIDE, YOU CAN JUST RIDE AROUND A BIT 10:31.033 --> 10:32.600 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:72.5% AND THEN PUT IT ON THE TRAIN. 10:35.666 --> 10:38.000 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:42.5% JEFF, VOICE-OVER: THIS IS CYCLISTS' HEAVEN. 10:38.100 --> 10:40.733 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:75% THE LONG, FLAT STRETCHES ALONG THE LAKE ARE GREAT FOR CASUAL 10:40.833 --> 10:43.200 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:75% BIKERS AND FAMILIES WITH KIDS. 10:43.300 --> 10:45.533 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:75% AND THERE ARE SOME HILLY SPOTS FURTHER INLAND IF YOU WANT 10:45.633 --> 10:48.066 align:start position:20% line:84.67% size:52.5% SOME EXTRA CHALLENGE. 10:48.166 --> 10:50.733 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:42.5% BICYCLING IS VERY POPULAR IN SWITZERLAND. 10:50.833 --> 10:53.066 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:52.5% THERE ARE NETWORKS OF WELL-MARKED TRAILS STITCHED 10:53.166 --> 10:55.666 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:37.5% TOGETHER ACROSS THE ENTIRE COUNTRY. 10:57.666 --> 11:01.366 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:60% LAKE CONSTANCE, KNOWN AS BODENSEE IN GERMAN, IS 11:01.466 --> 11:04.133 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:55% THE THIRD LARGEST LAKE IN WESTERN EUROPE. 11:04.233 --> 11:07.433 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:60% 3 DIFFERENT NATIONS LINE THESE SHORES: SWITZERLAND, 11:07.533 --> 11:10.666 align:start position:20% line:84.67% size:52.5% GERMANY, AND AUSTRIA. 11:10.766 --> 11:13.633 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:72.5% IF THE DAY IS HOT OR YOU JUST WANT A BREAK FROM CYCLING, 11:13.733 --> 11:17.833 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:42.5% THERE'S NO BETTER PLACE FOR WATER SPORTS. 11:17.933 --> 11:19.833 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:70% WHETHER YOU WANT TO BE ON... 11:19.933 --> 11:22.266 align:start position:20% line:84.67% size:65% IN...OR UNDER THE WATER... 11:22.366 --> 11:23.333 align:start position:30% line:84.67% size:35% IT'S ALL HERE. 11:26.166 --> 11:31.200 align:start position:20% line:74% size:55% THE TOWN OF ROMANSHORN IS A CONVENIENT PLACE TO DROP OFF A BIKE... 11:31.300 --> 11:34.900 align:start position:20% line:10% size:60% AND CHECK OUT AN EXHIBIT DEDICATED TO SWISS TRAINS. 11:36.700 --> 11:38.900 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:42.5% ROMANSHORN BECAME A TRANSPORTATION CENTER 11:39.000 --> 11:42.133 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:57.5% IN THE MID-19th CENTURY WHEN THE TRAIN CAME TO TOWN. 11:42.233 --> 11:44.700 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:45% TODAY IT'S A MAJOR RAIL AND BOAT HUB. 11:46.300 --> 11:48.633 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:62.5% ROMANSHORN CELEBRATES ITS LONG RAIL TRADITION HERE 11:48.733 --> 11:50.133 align:start position:30% line:84.67% size:40% AT THE LOCORAMA. 11:50.233 --> 11:52.566 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:67.5% IT'S HOUSED IN AN OLD TRAIN DEPOT, AND YOU CAN SEE CARS 11:52.666 --> 11:55.133 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:57.5% AND ENGINES DATING BACK OVER A HUNDRED YEARS. 12:02.766 --> 12:05.366 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:72.5% GETTING UP CLOSE TO THESE OLD ENGINES, YOU REALIZE JUST 12:05.466 --> 12:06.600 align:start position:20% line:84.67% size:57.5% THE SCALE OF THE THING. 12:06.700 --> 12:09.233 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:50% I MEAN, THESE WHEELS ARE AS TALL AS I AM, 12:09.333 --> 12:11.900 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:42.5% AND THE PARTS ARE JUST ENORMOUSLY HEAVY. 12:15.366 --> 12:16.966 align:start position:20% line:74% size:42.5% JEFF, VOICE-OVER: IN A LOCOMOTIVE DRIVING SIMULATOR, 12:17.066 --> 12:18.233 align:start position:20% line:84.67% size:50% YOU'RE THE ENGINEER. 12:18.333 --> 12:19.466 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:37.5% JEFF: WE'RE OUT IN THE COUNTRYSIDE, 12:19.566 --> 12:20.766 align:start position:20% line:84.67% size:60% SO I'M GOING TO GO FAST. 12:20.866 --> 12:22.500 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:72.5% JEFF, VOICE-OVER: YOU CAN SEE VIRTUALLY WHAT IT'S LIKE 12:22.600 --> 12:23.666 align:start position:20% line:84.67% size:47.5% TO CONTROL A TRAIN. 12:23.766 --> 12:25.466 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:50% SO THIS ISN'T A TOY. THIS IS A REAL SIMULATOR. 12:25.566 --> 12:29.233 align:start position:20% line:74% size:60% I MEAN, THIS IS ACTUALLY SHOWING YOU WHAT YOU SEE FROM STATION TO STATION 12:29.333 --> 12:31.066 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:45% ON THIS PARTICULAR LINE IN SWITZERLAND. 12:31.166 --> 12:34.033 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:50% YOU SEE ALL THE SAME SIGNALS THE ENGINEER SEES. 12:34.133 --> 12:36.400 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:52.5% YOU HAVE ALL THE SAME CONTROLS THAT THE ENGINEER HAS. 12:36.500 --> 12:38.733 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:62.5% YOU HAVE THE SPEED LIMITS BETWEEN TOWNS. 12:38.833 --> 12:40.600 align:start position:20% line:74% size:55% YOU HAVE TWO DIFFERENT KINDS OF BRAKES. 12:40.700 --> 12:43.433 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:45% YOU HAVE THE POWER AND THE DIRECTION. 12:43.533 --> 12:45.300 align:start position:20% line:74% size:35% YOU'VE GOT ALL THIS INFORMATION HERE 12:45.400 --> 12:47.666 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:67.5% ON THE SHEET THAT TELLS YOU HOW MANY CROSSINGS THERE ARE, 12:47.766 --> 12:50.700 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:60% WHETHER OR NOT THEY HAVE CROSSING ARMS, THE GRADE 12:50.800 --> 12:52.866 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:42.5% OF THE TRACK, THE DISTANCE BETWEEN TOWNS. 12:52.966 --> 12:54.700 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:57.5% YOU HAVE A LOT TO THINK ABOUT AS AN ENGINEER. 12:57.000 --> 12:58.100 align:start position:30% line:79.33% size:42.5% [SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE] 12:58.200 --> 12:59.366 align:start position:40% line:10% size:45% JEFF: OH, YOU JUST USE THE ELECTRIC ON THAT. 12:59.466 --> 13:02.466 align:start position:40% line:10% size:25% RIGHT. OK. 13:02.566 --> 13:04.366 align:start position:40% line:79.33% size:22.5% WE MISSED THE STATION. 13:04.466 --> 13:06.466 align:start position:30% line:84.67% size:25% [LAUGHTER] 13:06.566 --> 13:09.833 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:52.5% THERE WERE NO PEOPLE, I TOOK NO ONE ANYWHERE, 13:09.933 --> 13:12.400 align:start position:20% line:74% size:50% SO NO ONE WAS HARMED MAKING THIS FILM, I PROMISE. 13:19.166 --> 13:21.133 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:65% JEFF, VOICE-OVER: NOW IT'S BACK ON AN ACTUAL TRAIN 13:21.233 --> 13:23.066 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:42.5% FOR THE HALF-HOUR RIDE TO ST. GALLEN. 13:31.500 --> 13:33.333 align:start position:20% line:10% size:65% FOR CENTURIES, ST. GALLEN, 13:33.433 --> 13:35.700 align:start position:20% line:10% size:45% AN ANCIENT TOWN IN THE FOOTHILLS OF THE ALPS, 13:35.800 --> 13:37.833 align:start position:20% line:10% size:40% WAS AN IMPORTANT CENTER OF LEARNING. 13:37.933 --> 13:41.600 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:67.5% IN FACT, IT WAS ONCE DUBBED THE "WRITING ROOM OF EUROPE." 13:47.166 --> 13:49.766 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:62.5% IT ALL STARTED IN THE 7th CENTURY WHEN ST. GALLUS, 13:49.866 --> 13:52.066 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:45% AN ITINERANT MONK, TOOK A STUMBLE HERE. 13:52.166 --> 13:54.733 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:77.5% ACCORDING TO LEGEND, ST. GALLUS WAS WALKING THROUGH THE FOREST 13:54.833 --> 13:57.166 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:62.5% WHEN HE FELL INTO A BUSH, STARTLING A BEAR. 13:57.266 --> 13:59.633 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:62.5% WELL, ST. GALLUS APPEASED THE BEAR BY GIVING HIM BREAD, 13:59.733 --> 14:02.866 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:55% AND IN RETURN THE BEAR GAVE ST. GALLUS SOME WOOD. 14:02.966 --> 14:05.166 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:55% WELL, GALLUS TOOK THIS AS A DIVINE SIGN. 14:05.266 --> 14:06.466 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:70% I MEAN, WHO WOULDN'T, RIGHT? 14:06.566 --> 14:10.266 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:72.5% SO HE DECIDED TO USE THE WOOD TO BUILD A HERMITAGE HERE. 14:10.366 --> 14:12.066 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:42.5% JEFF, VOICE-OVER: ST. GALLUS CAME TO SWITZERLAND 14:12.166 --> 14:13.400 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:75% AS PART OF A MISSION OF GAELIC 14:13.500 --> 14:16.900 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:62.5% MONKS WHO TRAVELED AROUND EUROPE TO SPREAD CHRISTIANITY 14:17.000 --> 14:18.566 align:start position:20% line:84.67% size:57.5% AND SET UP MONASTERIES. 14:20.400 --> 14:22.833 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:62.5% AFTER HIS DEATH, AN ABBEY WAS FOUNDED ON THE SITE 14:22.933 --> 14:24.533 align:start position:20% line:84.67% size:52.5% OF GALLUS' HERMITAGE. 14:24.633 --> 14:26.866 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:55% IT WOULD BECOME ONE OF THE PRIME LOCATIONS DURING 14:26.966 --> 14:30.266 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:60% MEDIEVAL TIMES FOR MONKS TO COPY MANUSCRIPTS. 14:37.833 --> 14:41.800 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:65% THE LIBRARY STILL CONTAINS 160,000 ANTIQUE BOOKS 14:41.900 --> 14:44.200 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:77.5% AND 2,000 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS. 14:44.300 --> 14:47.366 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:67.5% COUNTED AMONG ITS TREASURES IS THE OLDEST COMPLETE MUSIC 14:47.466 --> 14:49.166 align:start position:20% line:84.67% size:60% MANUSCRIPT IN THE WORLD. 14:50.500 --> 14:54.133 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:70% THE ENTIRE ABBEY COMPLEX HAS BEEN HONORED AS A UNESCO WORLD 14:54.233 --> 14:55.766 align:start position:30% line:84.67% size:35% HERITAGE SITE. 15:09.933 --> 15:13.033 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:72.5% ST. GALLEN'S CENTRAL LOCATION IN THE LAKE CONSTANCE REGION 15:13.133 --> 15:16.800 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:55% MAKES IT AN IDEAL BASE FOR DAY TRIPS. 15:16.900 --> 15:19.166 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:62.5% THE MANY TRAINS THAT PASS THROUGH HERE SHOWCASE 15:19.266 --> 15:22.033 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:65% THE ENGINEERING PROWESS OF THE SWISS RAIL SYSTEM. 15:26.900 --> 15:30.533 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:57.5% FOR EXAMPLE, THE SITTER VIADUCT, AT MORE THAN 300 FEET 15:30.633 --> 15:34.200 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:62.5% HIGH, IS THE TALLEST RAIL BRIDGE IN SWITZERLAND. 15:34.300 --> 15:38.600 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:62.5% BUILT IN THE EARLY 1900s, IT SPANS NEARLY 1,200 FEET. 15:44.666 --> 15:49.333 align:start position:20% line:74% size:55% ABOUT AN HOUR SOUTH OF ST. GALLEN, THE REGION OF APPENZELLERLAND TRANSFORMS 15:49.433 --> 15:52.800 align:start position:30% line:79.33% size:42.5% DRAMATICALLY FROM ROLLING HILLS... 15:52.900 --> 15:54.933 align:start position:20% line:84.67% size:62.5% TO SHEER AND RUGGED ALPS. 16:11.166 --> 16:13.966 align:start position:10% line:10% size:62.5% COLORFULLY PAINTED HOUSES IN THE VILLAGE OF APPENZELL 16:14.066 --> 16:17.233 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:57.5% TRUMPET THE AREA'S LOVE FOR SWISS TRADITION. 16:17.333 --> 16:19.600 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:67.5% AND IN NO OTHER PART OF THE COUNTRY ARE THE OLD WAYS SUCH 16:19.700 --> 16:23.366 align:start position:20% line:84.67% size:60% A PART OF EVERYDAY LIFE. 16:23.466 --> 16:26.800 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:70% LOCAL EVELYN MANSER TELLS ME THIS TOWN IS ESPECIALLY PROUD 16:26.900 --> 16:29.566 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:67.5% OF ITS TRADITIONAL CUISINE, AND EVEN OFFERS FOOD TOURS 16:29.666 --> 16:31.900 align:start position:30% line:84.67% size:30% TO VISITORS. 16:32.000 --> 16:33.166 align:start position:30% line:79.33% size:32.5% JEFF: EVELYN, WHEN I TRAVEL, 16:33.266 --> 16:35.266 align:start position:20% line:74% size:37.5% I LIKE TO TASTE THINGS FROM THE REGION WHERE I AM. 16:35.366 --> 16:38.333 align:start position:20% line:74% size:37.5% I WANT TO KNOW, YOU KNOW, WHAT THE LOCALS EAT. 16:38.433 --> 16:40.766 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:47.5% WHAT ARE THE THINGS IN APPENZELL THAT ARE 16:40.866 --> 16:42.000 align:start position:30% line:84.67% size:32.5% LOCAL TASTES? 16:42.100 --> 16:44.266 align:start position:40% line:74% size:40% EVELYN: A LOT OF DRIED--SMOKED AND DRIED PRODUCTS. 16:44.366 --> 16:45.766 align:start position:30% line:84.67% size:25% MERCI. OK. 16:45.866 --> 16:48.766 align:start position:40% line:79.33% size:35% WE HAVE SMOKED AND DRIED VENISON. 16:48.866 --> 16:50.266 align:start position:40% line:79.33% size:47.5% IT'S LIKE A SALAMI. NICE. 16:50.366 --> 16:51.633 align:start position:40% line:79.33% size:20% AND THEN WE HAVE PORK, 16:51.733 --> 16:53.100 align:start position:40% line:79.33% size:25% AND SMOKED AND DRIED BEEF. 16:53.200 --> 16:55.166 align:start position:20% line:10% size:65% BEEF. OK. AND EVERYTHING'S SMOKED AND DRIED-- 16:55.266 --> 16:56.333 align:start position:20% line:10% size:67.5% WHAT'S THE REASON FOR THAT? 16:56.433 --> 16:57.333 align:start position:40% line:10% size:17.5% IT JUST HOLDS A LOT LONG. 16:57.433 --> 16:58.600 align:start position:20% line:10% size:57.5% RIGHT. SO IN THE ALPS-- 16:58.700 --> 17:00.866 align:start position:40% line:10% size:42.5% SO IF YOU TAKE IT INTO THE ALPS OR YOU GO HIKING, 17:00.966 --> 17:02.500 align:start position:40% line:74% size:37.5% YOU CAN TAKE IT WITH YOU AND IT JUST-- 17:02.600 --> 17:03.500 align:start position:40% line:79.33% size:37.5% YOU CAN KEEP IT A LONG TIME. 17:03.600 --> 17:04.900 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:60% RIGHT. RIGHT. THAT MAKES A LOT OF SENSE. 17:05.000 --> 17:06.966 align:start position:20% line:74% size:40% I'M GOING TO TRY SOME OF THIS VENISON. IT LOOKS GREAT. 17:08.666 --> 17:10.900 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:47.5% MMM. IT'S DRIED AND CRUMBLY A LITTLE BIT. 17:11.000 --> 17:11.933 align:start position:70% line:84.67% size:10% YUP. 17:12.033 --> 17:13.600 align:start position:20% line:84.67% size:50% MMM. PERFECT FLAVOR. 17:13.700 --> 17:16.033 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:65% DRIED BEEF IS PARTICULARLY SWISS, MAYBE? 17:16.133 --> 17:17.833 align:start position:50% line:74% size:32.5% VERY MUCH SO. YEAH. YEAH. 17:18.900 --> 17:20.133 align:start position:50% line:79.33% size:37.5% IT'S DEFINITELY FROM THIS AREA. 17:20.233 --> 17:22.233 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:45% GREAT FLAVOR. MMM. BEAUTIFUL. 17:22.333 --> 17:23.633 align:start position:20% line:84.67% size:50% THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 17:26.933 --> 17:29.200 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:57.5% AH, THE BAKERY IS NEXT. GREAT. 17:29.300 --> 17:30.933 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:37.5% WHAT IS SPECIAL OR DIFFERENT 17:31.033 --> 17:33.266 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:42.5% ABOUT APPENZELLER BAKED ITEMS? 17:33.366 --> 17:36.066 align:start position:30% line:79.33% size:40% WE HAVE A LOT OF SPECIALTIES, 17:36.166 --> 17:37.600 align:start position:30% line:84.67% size:52.5% THE SAME AS THE MEAT, 17:37.700 --> 17:39.533 align:start position:30% line:74% size:52.5% SPECIALTIES THAT HOLD A LONG TIME. OK. 17:39.633 --> 17:40.533 align:start position:40% line:79.33% size:42.5% YOU CAN TAKE THEM HOME AND YOU CAN 17:40.633 --> 17:42.900 align:start position:40% line:79.33% size:30% KEEP AT HOME FOR A WEEK OR TWO, 17:43.000 --> 17:43.900 align:start position:40% line:74% size:42.5% AND THEY'RE STILL AS GOOD AS ON THE FIRST DAY. 17:44.000 --> 17:45.033 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:25% OK. I SEE. 17:45.133 --> 17:48.300 align:start position:30% line:79.33% size:35% THIS ONE HERE, IT'S LIKE A GINGERBREAD, 17:48.400 --> 17:50.800 align:start position:30% line:74% size:60% AND IN THE MIDDLE IT'S T AN ALMOND FILLING. OOH. 17:50.900 --> 17:53.400 align:start position:30% line:84.67% size:52.5% IT'S CALLED A BIEBER. 17:53.500 --> 17:54.700 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:27.5% VERY TASTY. A LITTLE SPICY. 17:54.800 --> 17:57.266 align:start position:60% line:79.33% size:10% YUP. VERY GOOD. 17:57.366 --> 18:00.333 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:67.5% WHAT'S BEAUTIFUL ABOUT IT-- IT'S NOT TOO SWEET. 18:00.433 --> 18:03.866 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:67.5% IT HAS A LOT OF NICE SPICES BUT DOESN'T OVERWHELM YOU. 18:03.966 --> 18:05.566 align:start position:10% line:74% size:27.5% VERY TASTY. THANK YOU. YOU'RE WELCOME. 18:05.666 --> 18:06.566 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:42.5% YOU CAN HAVE SOME OF THIS, TOO. 18:06.666 --> 18:07.633 align:start position:50% line:84.67% size:25% THANK YOU. 18:11.900 --> 18:14.333 align:start position:20% line:74% size:42.5% JEFF, VOICE-OVER: THE WHOLE APPENZELLERLAND REGION IS THREADED 18:14.433 --> 18:16.500 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:80% WITH NETWORKS OF HIKING TRAILS-- 18:16.600 --> 18:20.266 align:start position:10% line:10% size:70% EVERYTHING FROM GENTLE WALKS TO HEART-POUNDING ASCENTS. 18:20.366 --> 18:23.200 align:start position:10% line:10% size:60% TO REACH THE SPECTACULAR EBENALP PLATEAU, YOU CAN HIKE 18:23.300 --> 18:25.500 align:start position:20% line:10% size:67.5% UP OR USE YOUR TRAIN TICKET FOR A DISCOUNTED RIDE 18:25.600 --> 18:27.500 align:start position:30% line:84.67% size:42.5% ON THE CABLE CAR. 18:27.600 --> 18:30.600 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:67.5% IT'S A KIND OF ALPINE MAGIC CARPET TO ONE OF THE WORLD'S 18:30.700 --> 18:32.866 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:65% GREAT HIKING DESTINATIONS. 18:37.166 --> 18:40.833 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:65% PARAGLIDERS TAKE ADVANTAGE OF LOFTY EBENALP TO SOAR LIKE 18:40.933 --> 18:43.466 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:47.5% BIRDS OVER DAZZLING MOUNTAIN SCENERY. 18:51.166 --> 18:55.066 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:57.5% A SHORT HIKE LEADS TO 3 DARK MOUNTAIN CAVERNS KNOWN 18:55.166 --> 18:56.566 align:start position:30% line:84.67% size:37.5% AS WILDKIRCHLI. 19:07.166 --> 19:10.500 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:60% HERE, ANCIENT CAVE BEARS AND NEANDERTHALS ONCE FOUND 19:10.600 --> 19:14.333 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:67.5% REFUGE, AND LATER CHRISTIAN MONKS BUILT ANOTHER HERMITAGE. 19:20.666 --> 19:24.366 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:50% THE ALTAR CHAPEL WAS DEDICATED IN 1621. 19:31.000 --> 19:33.966 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:75% AROUND THE CORNER, THE AESCHER HOSTEL IS AN IMAGE PULLED 19:34.066 --> 19:35.733 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:32.5% STRAIGHT FROM A TRAVEL BROCHURE. 19:35.833 --> 19:40.500 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:65% DEFYING GRAVITY, IT CLINGS PRECARIOUSLY TO THE ROCK FACE. 19:40.600 --> 19:42.900 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:67.5% THIS WAS ONCE A SHELTER FOR PILGRIMS WHO CLIMBED 19:43.000 --> 19:45.933 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:60% THE MOUNTAINSIDE TO SEEK COUNSEL FROM THE HERMITS. 19:46.033 --> 19:48.366 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:52.5% NOW IT'S A GUESTHOUSE FEATURING SIMPLE, MODEST 19:48.466 --> 19:51.133 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:67.5% ROOMS AND ULTRA-EXTRAVAGANT VIEWS. 19:53.066 --> 19:55.400 align:start position:40% line:84.67% size:22.5% ZUM WOHL. 19:55.500 --> 19:56.766 align:start position:40% line:84.67% size:10% MMM. 20:04.166 --> 20:05.966 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:67.5% I CHECKED WITH SOME LOCALS, AND THEY SAID THERE'S MORE 20:06.066 --> 20:08.700 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:72.5% GREAT HIKING AND SOME AWESOME RIVER RAFTING IN SOUTHEASTERN 20:08.800 --> 20:11.166 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:55% SWITZERLAND, SO THAT'S WHERE I'M HEADED NEXT. 20:14.666 --> 20:17.200 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:55% TRAIN SCHEDULES CAN BE A LITTLE BIT CONFUSING IF YOU 20:17.300 --> 20:19.300 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:62.5% HAVEN'T DONE THIS BEFORE, BUT IF YOU LOOK AT IT, 20:19.400 --> 20:22.633 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:65% IT'S ORGANIZED BY THE HOUR THAT THE TRAIN LEAVES. 20:22.733 --> 20:25.133 align:start position:30% line:79.33% size:30% SO I'M HERE. IT'S A LITTLE BIT AFTER 10:00. 20:25.233 --> 20:27.333 align:start position:20% line:84.67% size:45% I'M GOING TO CHUR. 20:27.433 --> 20:29.866 align:start position:30% line:79.33% size:37.5% WE HAVE A TRAIN LEAVING AT 10:26. 20:29.966 --> 20:33.133 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:60% IT'S A REGIONAL EXPRESS, AND IT IS ON TRACK 3, 20:33.233 --> 20:34.666 align:start position:20% line:84.67% size:57.5% SO I'M RIGHT OVER HERE. 20:40.666 --> 20:42.933 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:65% JEFF, VOICE-OVER: IN CHUR, I MAKE A QUICK CHANGE TO BOARD 20:43.033 --> 20:46.500 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:67.5% MY ALL-TIME FAVORITE TRAIN: THE ALBULA-BERNINA LINE. 20:50.666 --> 20:53.200 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:77.5% THIS IS NO ORDINARY TRAIN RIDE. 20:53.300 --> 20:57.266 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:65% WITH 55 BRIDGES, DOZENS OF TUNNELS, AND AN ALTITUDE CHANGE 20:57.366 --> 21:01.400 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:62.5% OF 3,600 FEET, IT'S TRULY AN ENGINEERING MARVEL. 21:11.666 --> 21:15.100 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:65% SINCE ITS OPENING IN 1903, IT'S BEEN PRAISED AS ONE 21:15.200 --> 21:19.266 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:70% OF THE MOST SPECTACULAR RAIL STRETCHES IN THE WORLD. 21:19.366 --> 21:21.533 align:start position:20% line:10% size:35% MAN: THIS LINE BETWEEN CHUR AND SAN MORITZ 21:21.633 --> 21:25.166 align:start position:20% line:10% size:65% IS PART OF GLACIER EXPRESS AND BERNINA EXPRESS. 21:25.266 --> 21:28.033 align:start position:20% line:10% size:45% AND THIS IS A VERY SPECIAL TRAIN RIDE. 21:28.133 --> 21:32.733 align:start position:20% line:10% size:67.5% IT'S EVEN THE FIRST RAILWAY LINE WHICH IS NOMINATED 21:32.833 --> 21:35.066 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:60% IN SWITZERLAND AS UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE. 21:35.166 --> 21:36.100 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:22.5% JEFF: OH, VERY SPECIAL, THEN. 21:36.200 --> 21:37.366 align:start position:40% line:84.67% size:30% MAURUS: YES. 21:39.433 --> 21:41.366 align:start position:40% line:74% size:22.5% TRAVELING IN SWITZERLAND BY TRAIN, 21:41.466 --> 21:43.633 align:start position:40% line:74% size:22.5% BY PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION, IS SO EASY. 21:43.733 --> 21:45.966 align:start position:40% line:74% size:45% SO A LOT OF PEOPLE THINK, "ONCE I AM IN SWITZERLAND, 21:46.066 --> 21:48.333 align:start position:40% line:79.33% size:30% I LIKE TO DO THIS EXPERIENCE." 21:48.433 --> 21:51.933 align:start position:40% line:74% size:50% THEY RIDE THE TRAIN, AND THEY SEE IT'S VERY, VERY RELAXING. 21:52.033 --> 21:54.733 align:start position:40% line:79.33% size:45% THEY CAN SIT DOWN, ENJOY THE LANDSCAPE, 21:54.833 --> 21:56.233 align:start position:40% line:74% size:30% AND THEY SEE THE BEST OF SWITZERLAND 21:56.333 --> 21:59.666 align:start position:40% line:79.33% size:30% JUST OUTSIDE OF THE WINDOWS. 21:59.766 --> 22:01.100 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:57.5% JEFF, VOICE-OVER: WHILE YOU'RE ENJOYING THE VIEWS, 22:01.200 --> 22:04.500 align:start position:20% line:74% size:52.5% YOU CAN DINE ON LOCAL DISHES IN THE VINTAGE DINING CAR. 22:04.600 --> 22:08.666 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:75% IT RE-CREATES STYLISH EUROPEAN TRAIN TRAVEL FROM THE 1930s 22:08.766 --> 22:11.600 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:55% WITH PERIOD DECORATION AND 3-COURSE MEALS. 22:11.700 --> 22:14.133 align:start position:30% line:79.33% size:60% MAURUS: THIS IS A REALLY TRADITIONAL DINING CAR, 22:14.233 --> 22:15.733 align:start position:30% line:79.33% size:27.5% AND WHAT IS VERY SPECIAL, 22:15.833 --> 22:17.066 align:start position:30% line:79.33% size:32.5% EVERYTHING IS FRESHLY COOKED 22:17.166 --> 22:20.666 align:start position:30% line:79.33% size:37.5% IN THE KITCHEN, WHICH IS VERY SMALL, 22:20.766 --> 22:24.633 align:start position:30% line:79.33% size:47.5% BUT THEY DO IT WITH A LOT OF ENTHUSIASM. 22:24.733 --> 22:26.633 align:start position:10% line:74% size:12.5% YEAH. AND YOU WILL SEE IT REALLY IS-- 22:26.733 --> 22:27.866 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:52.5% YEAH. THEY DON'T TAKE ANY SHORTCUTS-- 22:27.966 --> 22:29.566 align:start position:10% line:74% size:47.5% NO MICROWAVES, NONE OF THAT KIND OF THING. NO, NO. 22:29.666 --> 22:31.366 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:25% GREAT. OH, IT SMELLS GREAT. 22:36.733 --> 22:40.033 align:start position:20% line:74% size:57.5% JEFF, VOICE-OVER: MILES OF FORESTS RIPPLE AND FOLD AROUND THE ALBULA LINE, 22:40.133 --> 22:42.266 align:start position:20% line:10% size:57.5% BEGGING TO BE EXPLORED. 22:42.366 --> 22:44.400 align:start position:20% line:10% size:47.5% I'M MEETING UP WITH GUIDE SVENJA SUMMERMATTER 22:44.500 --> 22:46.466 align:start position:10% line:10% size:67.5% FOR A LOCAL TAKE ON HIKING. 22:46.566 --> 22:50.000 align:start position:30% line:74% size:50% SO, SVENJA, TELL ME, WHAT MAKES THIS REGION, THIS AREA, 22:50.100 --> 22:51.466 align:start position:30% line:84.67% size:55% SO SPECIAL FOR HIKING? 22:51.566 --> 22:54.633 align:start position:10% line:10% size:50% YEAH, THIS IS REALLY AN ADVENTURE PART OF HIKING 22:54.733 --> 22:56.533 align:start position:10% line:10% size:40% BECAUSE IT'S THE RAILWAY ADVENTURE TRAIL. 22:56.633 --> 22:58.866 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:45% IT'S VERY EXCITING BECAUSE, FOR EXAMPLE, 22:58.966 --> 23:01.133 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:45% YOU TAKE THE TRAIN IN THE TOWN 23:01.233 --> 23:03.866 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:57.5% IN THE VALLEY, THEN YOU GO UP TO PREDA. 23:03.966 --> 23:05.166 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:27.5% YOU CAN GET OFF THE TRAIN, 23:05.266 --> 23:09.066 align:start position:10% line:74% size:37.5% AND THEN YOU DO THE HIKING PART HERE NEAR THE TRACKS. 23:09.166 --> 23:11.400 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:27.5% YOU CAN SEE ALWAYS THE TRAINS, 23:11.500 --> 23:12.700 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:30% AND THEN YOU SEE EVERYWHERE 23:12.800 --> 23:15.433 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:57.5% THE INFORMATION BOARDS, WHERE YOU GET INFORMATION 23:15.533 --> 23:17.600 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:62.5% ABOUT CONSTRUCTIONS HERE. 23:17.700 --> 23:21.200 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:47.5% YOU SEE THE VIADUCT SURROUNDED BY THE MOUNTAINS. 23:21.300 --> 23:23.433 align:start position:40% line:74% size:17.5% SVENJA: YEAH. IT'S JUST AN EXPERIENCE HERE. 23:23.533 --> 23:24.833 align:start position:10% line:74% size:50% AND THE BEST PART OF THAT IS IT'S ALL DOWNHILL FROM THERE, 23:24.933 --> 23:26.500 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:52.5% FROM PREDA TO BERGUN. 23:26.600 --> 23:27.966 align:start position:30% line:84.67% size:42.5% EXACTLY. EXACTLY. 23:28.066 --> 23:31.333 align:start position:30% line:79.33% size:52.5% IT TAKES AROUND 2 1/2 HOURS TO GET TO BERGUN, 23:31.433 --> 23:33.500 align:start position:30% line:79.33% size:40% AND THEN FINALLY TO FILISUR, 23:33.600 --> 23:35.066 align:start position:30% line:79.33% size:42.5% AND THERE YOU CAN TAKE AGAIN 23:35.166 --> 23:38.733 align:start position:30% line:79.33% size:37.5% THE TRAIN TO GO BACK HOME. 23:38.833 --> 23:40.133 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:42.5% SVENJA: I THOUGHT I'D BRING SOME WINE 23:40.233 --> 23:41.300 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:55% BECAUSE WE ALWAYS HAVE 23:41.400 --> 23:43.733 align:start position:10% line:74% size:45% A LITTLE BOTTLE OF WINE WITH US IN OUR POCKET. 23:43.833 --> 23:45.200 align:start position:40% line:79.33% size:50% JEFF: THAT'S A GREAT TRADITION. 23:45.300 --> 23:47.533 align:start position:40% line:79.33% size:22.5% I CAN GET BEHIND THAT. 23:47.633 --> 23:49.766 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:45% SO WE SHOULD SAY A TRADITIONAL SWISS TOAST. 23:49.866 --> 23:50.966 align:start position:60% line:84.67% size:12.5% YEAH. 23:51.066 --> 23:53.600 align:start position:40% line:74% size:40% WHAT WOULD I SAY IF I WAS--IF WE WERE TOASTING? 23:53.700 --> 23:57.233 align:start position:10% line:74% size:25% THANK YOU. IT'S SANTE, WE SAY-- SANTE? 23:57.333 --> 23:58.233 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:22.5% OR PROST. PROST! 23:58.333 --> 24:00.400 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:12.5% YEAH. 24:00.500 --> 24:01.800 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:10% MMM. 24:05.833 --> 24:08.466 align:start position:20% line:74% size:42.5% JEFF, VOICE-OVER: CONQUERING THE HIGHEST RAIL PASS IN THE ALPS, 24:08.566 --> 24:11.066 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:70% THE BERNINA EXPRESS PROVIDES A LINK BETWEEN NORTHERN 24:11.166 --> 24:12.333 align:start position:20% line:84.67% size:50% AND SOUTHERN EUROPE. 24:15.266 --> 24:18.500 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:60% IT PASSES THROUGH A LONG AVALANCHE GALLERY, OR SNOW SHED, 24:18.600 --> 24:21.033 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:75% HINTING AT THE MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF SNOW DELIVERED HERE BY 24:21.133 --> 24:22.500 align:start position:30% line:84.67% size:35% WINTER STORMS. 24:28.166 --> 24:32.000 align:start position:10% line:10% size:75% NEXT STOP IS THE HAMLET OF ALP GRUM, WHICH, EXCEPT IN SUMMER, 24:32.100 --> 24:33.900 align:start position:10% line:10% size:70% IS ACCESSIBLE ONLY BY TRAIN. 24:39.566 --> 24:43.600 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:70% AT 6,500 FEET, THIS MOUNTAIN LOOKOUT PROVIDES SWEEPING 24:43.700 --> 24:45.733 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:65% VIEWS OF THE PALU GLACIER. 24:47.166 --> 24:50.266 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:57.5% UNFORTUNATELY THE PALU, LIKE OTHER SWISS GLACIERS, 24:50.366 --> 24:52.866 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:42.5% IS RETREATING DUE TO GLOBAL WARMING. 24:54.666 --> 24:57.533 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:75% A HIKE DOWN THE HILLSIDE LEADS TO A LOCAL HYDRO-ELECTRIC 24:57.633 --> 24:59.633 align:start position:30% line:84.67% size:35% POWER STATION. 24:59.733 --> 25:00.900 align:start position:40% line:79.33% size:40% MAN: THE OUTSIDE OF THE BUILDING, 25:01.000 --> 25:02.033 align:start position:40% line:79.33% size:22.5% IT'S LIKE A LITTLE CASTLE. 25:02.133 --> 25:03.300 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:27.5% JEFF: YEAH. 25:03.400 --> 25:05.200 align:start position:30% line:74% size:42.5% MAN: IT'S BECAUSE ELECTRICITY WAS SOMETHING NEW, 25:05.300 --> 25:06.200 align:start position:30% line:79.33% size:15% AND AS A SIGN OF PROGRESS, 25:06.300 --> 25:09.100 align:start position:30% line:79.33% size:55% THEY MADE SOME CASTLE, SOME VERY-- 25:09.200 --> 25:10.133 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:35% STURDY-LOOKING BUILDING. 25:10.233 --> 25:13.533 align:start position:30% line:79.33% size:45% YES, YES. THAT WAS THE REASON WHY. 25:13.633 --> 25:15.233 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:67.5% JEFF, VOICE-OVER: THE SWISS ARE AHEAD OF THE CURVE 25:15.333 --> 25:17.900 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:67.5% IN ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY ENERGY PRODUCTION. 25:18.000 --> 25:23.000 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:60% THEY EVEN USE HYDROPOWER TO SUPPLY MANY RAILWAYS. 25:23.100 --> 25:25.933 align:start position:10% line:10% size:57.5% OH, SO THE RAILWAY HERE NEVER RAN ON STEAM. 25:26.033 --> 25:29.300 align:start position:30% line:10% size:57.5% NO. FROM THE BEGINNING, IT WAS WITH ELECTRICITY, 25:29.400 --> 25:31.200 align:start position:30% line:10% size:57.5% BECAUSE THEY BUILT HERE THIS POWER STATION. 25:31.300 --> 25:33.466 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:52.5% AND THAT'S--YOU KNOW, TODAY I UNDERSTAND 25:33.566 --> 25:35.700 align:start position:10% line:74% size:32.5% THAT A LOT OF SWISS TRAINS ARE RUN ON ELECTRICITY 25:35.800 --> 25:37.300 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:32.5% AND THAT MOST OF THAT ELECTRICITY 25:37.400 --> 25:39.500 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:30% IS RENEWABLE HYDROPOWER, RIGHT? 25:39.600 --> 25:42.400 align:start position:30% line:74% size:30% MOST OF THEM NOWADAYS IS RENEWABLE HYDROPOWER. YES. 25:42.500 --> 25:45.266 align:start position:30% line:74% size:47.5% AND IN SWITZERLAND, WE HAVE ABOUT 60% FROM THE ELECTRICITY 25:45.366 --> 25:47.333 align:start position:30% line:79.33% size:27.5% IS PRODUCED BY HYDROPOWER. 25:49.966 --> 25:52.200 align:start position:20% line:74% size:42.5% JEFF, VOICE-OVER: THOUGH TYPICALLY NOT OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, 25:52.300 --> 25:53.933 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:20% WE GET A BEHIND-THE-SCENES TOUR 25:54.033 --> 25:55.700 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:45% OF THE UNDERGROUND TRAIN THAT POWER 25:55.800 --> 25:58.100 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:55% STATION WORKERS USE TO MAINTAIN THE STATION. 26:04.933 --> 26:07.866 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:62.5% TRAVELING INTO THE DEPTHS OF THE MOUNTAIN FEELS LIKE 26:07.966 --> 26:10.033 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:40% A JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH. 26:16.333 --> 26:19.600 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:72.5% THE ALPS WERE ONCE A DAUNTING BARRIER THAT STYMIED TRAVELERS 26:19.700 --> 26:22.566 align:start position:30% line:79.33% size:27.5% AND SPAWNED LEGENDS OF DRAGONS. 26:22.666 --> 26:25.600 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:65% NOW, THANKS TO RAIL POWER, THEY'RE ONE OF SWITZERLAND'S 26:25.700 --> 26:29.300 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:50% GREAT ASSETS--AND AN INVITATION TO ADVENTURE. 26:36.466 --> 26:38.600 align:start position:20% line:84.67% size:50% [INDISTINCT CHATTER] 26:40.033 --> 26:43.233 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:75% AS EVERY HIKER/TRAVELER KNOWS, ONCE THE DAY'S OVER, 26:43.333 --> 26:46.066 align:start position:20% line:84.67% size:50% IT'S TIME TO REFUEL. 26:46.166 --> 26:47.400 align:start position:20% line:84.67% size:60% THE ALP GRUM RESTAURANT, 26:47.500 --> 26:49.833 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:52.5% OPERATED BY INNKEEPER PRIMO SEMADENI, 26:49.933 --> 26:54.100 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:47.5% IS NOT YOUR TYPICAL TRAIN STATION FAST FOOD. 26:54.200 --> 26:57.800 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:57.5% THIS IS A DESTINATION-- A PLACE TO LINGER OVER LUSCIOUS 26:57.900 --> 27:03.600 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:80% SWISS-ITALIAN SPECIALTIES, LOCAL BEERS, AND SPECTACULAR VIEWS. 27:03.700 --> 27:05.400 align:start position:10% line:74% size:40% JEFF: WHAT WOULD BE A COUPLE OF TYPICAL DISHES 27:05.500 --> 27:06.600 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:35% THAT YOU WOULD SERVE HERE? 27:06.700 --> 27:09.466 align:start position:30% line:79.33% size:47.5% PRIMO: HERE WE MAKE HOMEMADE PIZZOCCHERI. 27:09.566 --> 27:13.233 align:start position:30% line:10% size:52.5% IT'S A SPECIALTY FROM VALTELLINA IN ITALY, 27:13.333 --> 27:14.700 align:start position:30% line:10% size:45% ALSO IN POSCHIAVO. OK. 27:14.800 --> 27:17.133 align:start position:30% line:10% size:30% IT'S A PASTA WITH CHEESE 27:17.233 --> 27:20.500 align:start position:30% line:79.33% size:35% AND VEGETABLES AND POTATOES. 27:20.600 --> 27:23.166 align:start position:30% line:79.33% size:57.5% SOMETHING WHEN SOMEBODY HAVE A LOT OF... 27:23.266 --> 27:25.133 align:start position:10% line:74% size:30% VERY HUNGRY. WELL, YOU'RE MAKING ME HUNGRY. 27:46.666 --> 27:48.233 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:42.5% JEFF, VOICE-OVER: THE GLACIER EXPRESS, 27:48.333 --> 27:51.166 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:42.5% A 7 1/2 HOUR RIDE ACROSS SOUTHERN SWITZERLAND, 27:51.266 --> 27:53.933 align:start position:30% line:79.33% size:30% IS LEGENDARY AMONG TRAIN FANS. 27:54.033 --> 27:56.133 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:65% TALK ABOUT A CONTRADICTION IN TERMS. 27:56.233 --> 27:59.966 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:70% THIS IS KNOWN AS THE SLOWEST EXPRESS TRAIN IN THE WORLD. 28:08.166 --> 28:11.100 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:70% THERE'S GOOD REASON FOR THIS LEISURELY PACE: THE TRAIN 28:11.200 --> 28:14.266 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:55% SNAKES ITS WAY THROUGH ALPINE STEEPNESS, NEGOTIATING 28:14.366 --> 28:17.500 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:65% COUNTLESS TIGHT CURVES AND VERTICAL SLOPES, AND HUNDREDS 28:17.600 --> 28:19.733 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:52.5% OF BRIDGES AND DOZENS OF TUNNELS. 28:21.666 --> 28:24.366 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:72.5% KICK BACK AND ENJOY THE RIDE. 29:09.666 --> 29:12.600 align:start position:20% line:74% size:55% YOU DON'T HAVE TO RIDE THE GLACIER EXPRESS ALL IN ONE TRIP. 29:12.700 --> 29:15.400 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:47.5% THERE ARE PLENTY OF ADVENTURE STOPS ALONG THE WAY. 29:22.666 --> 29:25.400 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:45% NEXT ON MY OUTDOOR ADVENTURE LIST: RIVER RAFTING 29:25.500 --> 29:27.066 align:start position:20% line:84.67% size:47.5% ON THE VORDERRHEIN. 29:27.166 --> 29:29.600 align:start position:20% line:74% size:42.5% JEFF, VOICE-OVER: THIS IS ONE OF THE SOURCE RIVERS OF THE RHINE. 29:32.166 --> 29:35.333 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:67.5% I MAKE A QUICK TRAIN CHANGE TO GET TO THE TOWN OF ILANZ, 29:35.433 --> 29:37.566 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:65% AND MEET UP WITH MY GUIDES FROM WASSERCH RAFT TO PUT IN 29:37.666 --> 29:39.033 align:start position:30% line:84.67% size:32.5% AT THE RIVER. 29:47.666 --> 29:50.066 align:start position:40% line:84.67% size:25% ALL RIGHT. 29:50.166 --> 29:53.233 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:70% NOW, WE'RE TRAVELING THROUGH THE SWISS GRAND CANYON, 29:53.333 --> 29:56.500 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:77.5% AND IT'S EXPERIENCES LIKE THIS, A DAY LIKE TODAY--THIS IS 29:56.600 --> 29:57.933 align:start position:30% line:84.67% size:32.5% WHY I TRAVEL. 29:59.800 --> 30:01.600 align:start position:30% line:84.67% size:25% [LAUGHTER] 30:01.700 --> 30:03.700 align:start position:20% line:74% size:42.5% JEFF, VOICE-OVER: THERE'S NOTHING QUITE LIKE RAFTING TO GET YOU OUT 30:03.800 --> 30:06.866 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:65% IN THE WILDERNESS, WORKING AS A TEAM, HAVING FUN. 30:20.400 --> 30:22.566 align:start position:40% line:84.67% size:12.5% WHOO! 30:22.666 --> 30:24.566 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:75% JEFF, VOICE-OVER: THIS STRETCH OF THE VORDERRHEIN IS ESPECIALLY 30:24.666 --> 30:29.200 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:70% SPECTACULAR, FRAMED IN STEEP CHALK WALLS CREATED BY A HUGE 30:29.300 --> 30:32.000 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:50% LANDSLIDE AT THE END OF THE LAST ICE AGE. 30:35.166 --> 30:38.233 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:65% ALL THAT GEOLOGIC CHURNING LEFT A ROLLER COASTER 30:38.333 --> 30:40.666 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:75% OF RAPIDS FOR TODAY'S RAFTERS. 30:46.666 --> 30:48.800 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:50% NOW IT'S BACK ABOARD THE GLACIER EXPRESS 30:48.900 --> 30:50.233 align:start position:20% line:84.67% size:50% AND ON TO ANDERMATT. 31:01.166 --> 31:03.133 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:55% WHEN THE GERMAN WRITER GOETHE PASSED THROUGH THIS 31:03.233 --> 31:06.266 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:37.5% REGION IN 1779, HE DECLARED, "OF ALL 31:06.366 --> 31:09.166 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:47.5% "THE PLACES I KNOW, THIS IS THE DEAREST AND MOST 31:09.266 --> 31:11.700 align:start position:20% line:84.67% size:47.5% INTERESTING TO ME." 31:11.800 --> 31:13.133 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:80% JEFF, VOICE-OVER: AND NO WONDER. 31:13.233 --> 31:16.066 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:60% IN A COUNTRY OVERFLOWING WITH SPECTACULAR VALLEYS 31:16.166 --> 31:18.733 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:50% AND MOUNTAIN PASSES, THE URSEREN VALLEY IS ONE 31:18.833 --> 31:20.300 align:start position:20% line:84.67% size:57.5% OF THE MOST IMPRESSIVE. 31:39.166 --> 31:42.233 align:start position:20% line:10% size:60% THE VILLAGE OF ANDERMATT WAS ONCE A MANDATORY STOP 31:42.333 --> 31:44.800 align:start position:10% line:10% size:70% ON THE EUROPEAN SKI CIRCUIT. 31:44.900 --> 31:47.633 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:55% ANDERMATT DRIFTED INTO SEMI-OBSCURITY IN THE LATE 31:47.733 --> 31:51.633 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:77.5% 19th CENTURY AFTER THE GOTTHARD RAIL TUNNEL WAS BORED BELOW IT, 31:51.733 --> 31:53.833 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:45% DIVERTING TOURISTS AWAY FROM THE TOWN. 31:55.666 --> 31:59.066 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:57.5% TODAY IT'S EXPERIENCING SOMETHING OF A RENAISSANCE AS 31:59.166 --> 32:03.600 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:75% INVESTORS HAVE COME TO RECLAIM ITS TOURISM POTENTIAL. 32:03.700 --> 32:06.333 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:67.5% ONE HOTEL THAT'S MANAGED TO MAINTAIN A TRADITIONAL SWISS 32:06.433 --> 32:11.066 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:62.5% FEEL, BLENDED WITH MODERN AMENITIES, IS THE RIVER HOUSE. 32:11.166 --> 32:14.600 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:67.5% PRIDING THEMSELVES IN BEING RELAXED AND UNCONVENTIONAL, 32:14.700 --> 32:16.733 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:50% THE OWNERS IMPLEMENT ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY 32:16.833 --> 32:22.100 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:60% PRACTICES, SUCH AS USING GEOTHERMAL ENERGY FOR HEAT. 32:22.200 --> 32:24.400 align:start position:40% line:74% size:45% MAN: IT WAS FOR US REALLY IMPORTANT TO HAVE, 32:24.500 --> 32:26.933 align:start position:40% line:74% size:35% LIKE, A REALLY LOW, SMALL CARBON FOOTPRINT. 32:27.033 --> 32:29.066 align:start position:40% line:10% size:40% WE GOT A SPECIAL PERMIT FROM THE AUTHORITIES 32:29.166 --> 32:30.066 align:start position:40% line:10% size:47.5% THAT WE COULD DRILL 32:30.166 --> 32:31.300 align:start position:40% line:10% size:20% IN FRONT OF THE HOUSE 32:31.400 --> 32:33.000 align:start position:40% line:10% size:32.5% ON, ACTUALLY, PROPERTY THAT'S NOT OURS. 32:33.100 --> 32:35.100 align:start position:40% line:74% size:22.5% IT'S LIKE THE MAIN STREET GOING THROUGH TOWN. 32:35.200 --> 32:36.466 align:start position:40% line:79.33% size:25% AND WE DID THE DRILLING 32:36.566 --> 32:40.866 align:start position:40% line:74% size:32.5% AT A TOTAL OF 500 METERS DOWN INTO SOLID ROCK. 32:40.966 --> 32:42.100 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:55% DRILLING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET-- 32:42.200 --> 32:43.566 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:45% NOW, I'M SURE THAT THE AUTHORITIES 32:43.666 --> 32:44.600 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:42.5% WERE ALL THRILLED ABOUT THAT, RIGHT? 32:44.700 --> 32:45.600 align:start position:40% line:79.33% size:37.5% IT WAS ACTUALLY NO PROBLEM AT ALL. 32:45.700 --> 32:47.400 align:start position:10% line:74% size:17.5% REALLY? WE GOT THE PERMIT INSTANTLY. 32:47.500 --> 32:49.933 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:47.5% YEAH? THAT'S GREAT. 32:50.033 --> 32:51.133 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:42.5% JEFF, VOICE-OVER: RIVER HOUSE SERVES UP 32:51.233 --> 32:55.633 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:62.5% HEARTY TRADITIONAL DISHES USING LOCAL INGREDIENTS. 32:55.733 --> 32:57.466 align:start position:30% line:79.33% size:55% KEVIN: WELL, WE TRY TO SOURCE ALL FOODS FROM 32:57.566 --> 32:59.666 align:start position:30% line:79.33% size:42.5% AROUND THE REGION IF POSSIBLE, LOGICALLY. 32:59.766 --> 33:03.466 align:start position:30% line:79.33% size:50% SUMMERTIMES, WE HAVE SALADS FROM THE GARDEN, 33:03.566 --> 33:04.933 align:start position:30% line:84.67% size:55% HERBS FROM THE GARDEN. 33:05.033 --> 33:07.833 align:start position:30% line:74% size:47.5% WE HAVE CHEESE FROM AROUND THE MOUNTAINS IN HERE--IN THE AREA. 33:07.933 --> 33:09.966 align:start position:30% line:79.33% size:37.5% SOMETIMES WE GO AND HIKE. 33:10.066 --> 33:12.266 align:start position:30% line:84.67% size:55% WE GO FOR BLUEBERRIES. 33:12.366 --> 33:14.800 align:start position:30% line:79.33% size:52.5% WHATEVER YOU FIND OUT IN NATURE, 33:14.900 --> 33:16.366 align:start position:30% line:79.33% size:50% WE TRY TO BRING THAT BACK INTO THE KITCHEN 33:16.466 --> 33:19.566 align:start position:30% line:74% size:45% SO WE CAN ACTUALLY SHOW PEOPLE WHAT THEY'RE EATING 33:19.666 --> 33:21.366 align:start position:40% line:79.33% size:40% FROM THE REGION. MM-HMM. 33:41.666 --> 33:44.266 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:52.5% JEFF, VOICE-OVER: THE 9 1/2 MILE GOTTHARD TUNNEL, 33:44.366 --> 33:50.066 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:80% THE ONE THAT CHANGED ANDERMATT'S FORTUNES, FIRST OPENED IN 1882. 33:50.166 --> 33:53.133 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:75% IT WAS A REVOLUTION FOR TRAVEL IN SWITZERLAND, PROVIDING 33:53.233 --> 33:55.333 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:55% PASSAGE THROUGH ONE OF THE MOST FORBIDDING MOUNTAIN 33:55.433 --> 33:57.233 align:start position:20% line:84.67% size:62.5% RANGES IN CENTRAL EUROPE. 34:01.166 --> 34:03.833 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:77.5% A NEWLY BUILT, STATE-OF-THE-ART THOROUGHFARE 34:03.933 --> 34:05.466 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:77.5% CALLED THE GOTTHARD BASE TUNNEL 34:05.566 --> 34:07.433 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:50% MEANS AN EVEN FASTER CONNECTION BETWEEN 34:07.533 --> 34:09.400 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:72.5% NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN EUROPE. 34:09.500 --> 34:13.000 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:60% ITS 35-MILE LENGTH EARNS THIS NEW PASSAGEWAY THE TITLE 34:13.100 --> 34:16.766 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:55% OF THE WORLD'S LONGEST AND DEEPEST TUNNEL. 34:16.866 --> 34:18.100 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:37.5% JEFF: AS FAR AS THE TRAINS GO, 34:18.200 --> 34:22.033 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:57.5% THE OLD WAY, THE TRAINS WENT ALL THE WAY UP 34:22.133 --> 34:24.133 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:60% AND OVER THROUGH THE OLD GOTTHARD TUNNEL. 34:24.233 --> 34:25.333 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:42.5% AND IN THIS CASE, YOU'RE SAYING IT'S FLAT 34:25.433 --> 34:26.466 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:42.5% THROUGH THE ALPS? 34:26.566 --> 34:28.500 align:start position:30% line:10% size:52.5% THAT'S CORRECT. UNTIL NOW, THE TRAINS CAME 34:28.600 --> 34:30.200 align:start position:30% line:10% size:42.5% FROM THE NORTHERN PART OF EUROPE, 34:30.300 --> 34:33.433 align:start position:30% line:10% size:25% FLAT UNTIL HERE TO ERSTFELD, 34:33.533 --> 34:36.200 align:start position:30% line:10% size:32.5% THEN GOING UP THE STEEP INCLINES 34:36.300 --> 34:38.666 align:start position:30% line:74% size:30% TO GOSHENEN, GOING THROUGH THE EXISTING TUNNEL, 34:38.766 --> 34:42.066 align:start position:30% line:79.33% size:47.5% AND THEN GOING DOWN TO THE TICINO VALLEY. 34:42.166 --> 34:46.033 align:start position:30% line:74% size:42.5% AND NOWADAYS THEY CAN GO FLAT THROUGH THE ALPS, SO YOU NEED 34:46.133 --> 34:49.833 align:start position:30% line:74% size:42.5% LESS LOCOMOTIVES, LESS PERSONNEL, AND LESS ENERGY. 34:49.933 --> 34:52.366 align:start position:20% line:74% size:42.5% JEFF, VOICE-OVER: BUT LUCKILY FOR FANS OF THE ORIGINAL SCENIC ROUTE, 34:52.466 --> 34:54.566 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:55% THE OLD TRACKS WILL BE LEFT IN PLACE. 34:54.666 --> 34:55.833 align:start position:10% line:10% size:42.5% THE OTHER LINE IS STILL OPEN, 34:55.933 --> 34:57.966 align:start position:10% line:10% size:52.5% AND THE IDEA IS THAT, FOR EXAMPLE, PEOPLE COULD 34:58.066 --> 35:00.866 align:start position:10% line:10% size:65% TAKE THE FAST LINE DOWN TO TICINO, SPEND THE DAY, 35:00.966 --> 35:02.733 align:start position:10% line:10% size:32.5% AND THEN TAKE THE PANORAMIC ROUTE BACK 35:02.833 --> 35:04.466 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:15% TO THE SWISS-GERMAN-SPEAKING PART. 35:04.566 --> 35:07.066 align:start position:10% line:74% size:42.5% SO YOU HAVE BOTH. YOU HAVE THE INNOVATIVE MODERN PART, 35:07.166 --> 35:09.866 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:62.5% AND THEN ON THE WAY BACK, YOU CAN ENJOY THE SCENERY. 35:20.500 --> 35:23.533 align:start position:20% line:74% size:42.5% JEFF, VOICE-OVER: THE GRAND TOUR LEAVES GERMAN-SPEAKING SWITZERLAND 35:23.633 --> 35:26.666 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:65% AND DIPS TO THE SOUTHEAST, WHERE LOCALS SPEAK FRENCH, 35:26.766 --> 35:29.666 align:start position:20% line:74% size:40% AND FABLED PEAKS CAPTURE THE DREAMS OF MOUNTAINEERS. 35:42.900 --> 35:46.100 align:start position:10% line:10% size:70% THE TOWN OF MARTIGNY, LINING A CURVE ON THE RHONE RIVER, 35:46.200 --> 35:48.833 align:start position:20% line:10% size:47.5% SPREADS COMFORTABLY ACROSS THE VALLEY FLOOR. 35:53.200 --> 35:56.233 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:50% MARTIGNY, LOCATED IN A STRATEGIC MOUNTAIN PASS, 35:56.333 --> 35:59.600 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:52.5% HAS BEEN A COMMERCIAL CROSSROADS FOR CENTURIES. 35:59.700 --> 36:02.333 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:55% ROMAN RUINS, LEFT FROM THE DAYS WHEN THE ROMAN EMPIRE 36:02.433 --> 36:04.066 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:52.5% INFILTRATED THE ALPS, ARE SCATTERED 36:04.166 --> 36:05.333 align:start position:30% line:84.67% size:42.5% THROUGH THE CITY. 36:10.166 --> 36:13.766 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:60% IN 1976, LOCAL ARCHITECT LEONARD GIANADDA WAS 36:13.866 --> 36:16.966 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:52.5% EXCAVATING A SITE FOR A NEW BUILDING AND DISCOVERED 36:17.066 --> 36:22.433 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:67.5% A PREVIOUSLY UNKNOWN TEMPLE DEDICATED TO A ROMAN SUN GOD. 36:22.533 --> 36:25.200 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:52.5% AROUND THE SAME TIME, GIANADDA'S BROTHER DIED 36:25.300 --> 36:28.700 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:70% IN A PLANE CRASH, SO LEONARD DECIDED TO CREATE A CULTURAL 36:28.800 --> 36:31.366 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:52.5% CENTER IN HIS BROTHER PIERRE'S MEMORY. 36:35.666 --> 36:38.433 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:55% IT HOLDS ARCHEOLOGICAL RELICS DISCOVERED DURING 36:38.533 --> 36:39.966 align:start position:30% line:84.67% size:40% THE EXCAVATIONS. 36:47.166 --> 36:50.633 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:75% IT ALSO HAS EXHIBITIONS OF ART FROM SOME OF THE WORLD'S MAJOR 36:50.733 --> 36:56.100 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:70% COLLECTIONS, INCLUDING WORKS BY PICASSO AND MATISSE. 37:01.466 --> 37:03.400 align:start position:30% line:84.67% size:32.5% [DOG BARKING] 37:05.600 --> 37:07.233 align:start position:30% line:79.33% size:30% JEFF: YOU'RE AN OLD MAN, HUH? 37:07.333 --> 37:10.300 align:start position:30% line:84.67% size:55% OLD MAN. YEAH, I KNOW. 37:10.400 --> 37:12.600 align:start position:30% line:84.67% size:42.5% HE'S 9 YEARS OLD. 37:12.700 --> 37:14.266 align:start position:30% line:79.33% size:35% OH, THAT FEELS GOOD, HUH? 37:14.366 --> 37:15.300 align:start position:40% line:84.67% size:22.5% GOOD BOY. 37:15.400 --> 37:16.900 align:start position:30% line:84.67% size:60% YEAH, YOU'RE A GOOD BOY. 37:17.000 --> 37:21.066 align:start position:20% line:74% size:42.5% JEFF, VOICE-OVER: THE NEXT MUSEUM IS ONE THAT'S GOING TO THE DOGS. 37:21.166 --> 37:24.666 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:45% IT TELLS THE STORY OF THE GREAT ST. BERNARD PASS, 37:24.766 --> 37:26.700 align:start position:30% line:79.33% size:27.5% THE HOSPICE THAT WAS FOUNDED BY MONKS, 37:26.800 --> 37:29.500 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:45% AND THEIR FAITHFUL CANINE COMPANIONS. 37:29.600 --> 37:31.900 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:65% THESE ENORMOUS ST. BERNARD DOGS ARE WELL-KNOWN 37:32.000 --> 37:35.466 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:65% AROUND THE WORLD FOR THEIR LEGENDARY ALPINE RESCUES. 37:35.566 --> 37:38.200 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:70% THE MONKS WOULD SEND THEM UP INTO THE PASS TO SAVE TRAVELERS 37:38.300 --> 37:40.366 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:52.5% WHO HAD BEEN STRANDED BY AVALANCHES 37:40.466 --> 37:42.433 align:start position:20% line:84.67% size:57.5% OR HARSH WINTER STORMS. 37:42.533 --> 37:46.500 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:65% OF COURSE, IT'S SUMMERTIME NOW, SO THEY'RE OFF DUTY. 37:46.600 --> 37:49.833 align:start position:20% line:74% size:42.5% JEFF, VOICE-OVER: THEY STARTED OUT AS SIMPLE WATCHDOGS FOR THE HOSPICE, 37:49.933 --> 37:52.866 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:72.5% BUT THE MONKS SOON DISCOVERED THE DOGS' UNCANNY ABILITY TO 37:52.966 --> 37:57.066 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:60% NAVIGATE SNOW STORMS AND SENSE IMPENDING AVALANCHES. 37:57.166 --> 37:59.833 align:start position:30% line:84.67% size:27.5% [DOG BARKS] 37:59.933 --> 38:04.433 align:start position:20% line:74% size:67.5% IN THE BEGINNING, THE MONKS AND DOGS PERFORMED RESCUE MISSIONS TOGETHER. 38:04.533 --> 38:07.533 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:60% LATER THE DOGS COMPLETED RESCUES ON THEIR OWN. 38:07.633 --> 38:10.433 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:72.5% SOMETIMES, ONE DOG WOULD STAY AND LIE ON AN INJURED TRAVELER 38:10.533 --> 38:12.866 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:57.5% TO KEEP HIM WARM, WHILE ANOTHER DOG WOULD RETURN TO 38:12.966 --> 38:15.766 align:start position:20% line:84.67% size:57.5% THE MONASTERY FOR HELP. 38:15.866 --> 38:18.033 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:67.5% YOUNGER DOGS LEARNED HOW TO PERFORM SEARCH AND RESCUE 38:18.133 --> 38:21.000 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:67.5% OPERATIONS FROM OLDER ONES. 38:21.100 --> 38:23.166 align:start position:30% line:84.67% size:57.5% [WOMAN SPEAKING FRENCH] 38:25.000 --> 38:26.400 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:42.5% JEFF, VOICE-OVER: I'M LUCKY ENOUGH TO VISIT 38:26.500 --> 38:30.100 align:start position:20% line:74% size:42.5% JUST A FEW MONTHS AFTER THE BIRTH OF A LITTER OF PUPPIES. 38:30.200 --> 38:33.066 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:30% JEFF: HELLO! HELLO! 38:33.166 --> 38:35.500 align:start position:20% line:84.67% size:10% YES. 38:35.600 --> 38:37.033 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:27.5% JEFF: YEAH. 38:38.366 --> 38:39.600 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:50% JEFF: YOU HAVE PUPPY BREATH STILL. 38:39.700 --> 38:42.000 align:start position:30% line:79.33% size:30% YEAH. SWEET. I KNOW, I KNOW. 38:42.100 --> 38:43.966 align:start position:20% line:84.67% size:62.5% NOW I HAVE ANOTHER PUPPY. 38:47.666 --> 38:49.033 align:start position:30% line:84.67% size:32.5% [JEFF LAUGHS] 38:49.133 --> 38:52.533 align:start position:30% line:74% size:30% WHAT'S THAT? WHAT IS THAT? WHAT IS THAT? 38:52.633 --> 38:54.000 align:start position:50% line:84.67% size:22.5% [BARKING] 39:02.666 --> 39:05.733 align:start position:20% line:74% size:70% JEFF, VOICE-OVER: MARTIGNY'S OUTSTANDING TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE 39:05.833 --> 39:07.900 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:65% MAKES IT A GREAT LAUNCHING POINT FOR EXPLORING 39:08.000 --> 39:09.300 align:start position:20% line:84.67% size:52.5% THE SURROUNDING AREA. 39:13.900 --> 39:16.433 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:52.5% A TRIP TO THE EMOSSON HYDROELECTRIC DAM IS 39:16.533 --> 39:19.133 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:52.5% AN ODYSSEY INTO SWISS TRANSPORTATION. 39:21.066 --> 39:24.500 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:72.5% IT TAKES SEVERAL RAIL SYSTEMS TO REACH THE TOP OF THE DAM. 39:24.600 --> 39:27.166 align:start position:30% line:79.33% size:40% THE FIRST LEG IS ABOARD THIS LOCAL TRAIN. 39:31.666 --> 39:34.433 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:47.5% THEN WE TRANSFER TO THE EMOSSON FUNICULAR. 39:34.533 --> 39:37.366 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:60% THIS IS WORLD'S STEEPEST TWO-CARRIAGE FUNICULAR, 39:37.466 --> 39:39.733 align:start position:20% line:84.67% size:45% WITH AN 87% GRADE. 39:46.666 --> 39:52.900 align:start position:20% line:74% size:45% IT CHUGS UP TO THE RESERVOIR TO AN ALTITUDE OF NEARLY 6,000 FEET. 39:58.666 --> 40:02.000 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:57.5% FROM HERE, WE CHANGE TO THE EMOSSON PANORAMA RAILWAY. 40:02.100 --> 40:05.233 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:47.5% THE SMALL CARS HAVE A FRIENDLY TOY TRAIN FEEL. 40:05.333 --> 40:07.666 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:75% THEY'RE PULLED BY A LOCOMOTIVE RUNNING ON BATTERIES THAT ARE 40:07.766 --> 40:09.366 align:start position:20% line:84.67% size:55% RECHARGED EVERY NIGHT. 40:11.833 --> 40:14.166 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:72.5% THE TRAIN WINDS ITS WAY ALONG THE MOUNTAINSIDE TO THE BASE 40:14.266 --> 40:15.433 align:start position:30% line:84.67% size:27.5% OF THE DAM. 40:24.333 --> 40:26.300 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:40% THE LAST SECTION OF THE EMOSSON TRIP 40:26.400 --> 40:28.366 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:67.5% IS ABOARD A MINI-FUNICULAR, WHICH TAKES US 40:28.466 --> 40:31.600 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:50% A HUNDRED FEET ABOVE THE HIGHEST PART OF THE DAM. 40:37.166 --> 40:40.633 align:start position:20% line:10% size:62.5% THE MASSIVE DAM IS NEARLY 600 FEET IN HEIGHT. 40:40.733 --> 40:43.633 align:start position:10% line:10% size:70% IT WAS BUILT TO SUPPLY POWER TO THE SWISS RAIL SYSTEM. 40:45.466 --> 40:48.133 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:57.5% THIS DAM ISN'T THE ONLY GIANT TO INHABIT THIS AREA. 40:48.233 --> 40:52.300 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:72.5% DINOSAUR FOOTPRINTS, REACHING BACK NEARLY 250 MILLION YEARS, 40:52.400 --> 40:53.366 align:start position:20% line:84.67% size:57.5% HAVE BEEN FOUND NEARBY. 40:55.766 --> 40:58.033 align:start position:20% line:74% size:42.5% JEFF, VOICE-OVER: FROM THIS LOOKOUT, YOU GET FAR-REACHING VIEWS 40:58.133 --> 41:00.833 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:55% OF THE SWISS, ITALIAN, AND FRENCH ALPS. 41:03.000 --> 41:05.833 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:62.5% IF YOU HAVE TIME, YOU CAN ACTUALLY USE YOUR SWISS PASS 41:05.933 --> 41:08.566 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:60% TO CROSS THE BORDER INTO FRANCE AND VISIT THE FAMED 41:08.666 --> 41:10.166 align:start position:30% line:84.67% size:30% MOUNT BLANC. 41:12.833 --> 41:14.333 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:27.5% HERE WE GO. 41:14.433 --> 41:17.833 align:start position:20% line:74% size:42.5% JEFF, VOICE-OVER: BUT I'M OFF TO EXPLORE MORE OF SWITZERLAND. 41:17.933 --> 41:20.566 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:65% THE NEXT PHASE OF MY GRAND TOUR TAKES ME BACK INTO 41:20.666 --> 41:23.433 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:67.5% THE GERMAN-SPEAKING PART OF THE COUNTRY AND THE HEART 41:23.533 --> 41:26.766 align:start position:20% line:84.67% size:57.5% OF THE EMMENTAL VALLEY. 41:26.866 --> 41:29.666 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:60% I'LL HEAD NORTH AND EAST AND THEN TAKE A SHORT SIDE TRIP 41:29.766 --> 41:35.100 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:60% OFF THE GRAND TRAIN TOUR TO THE TOWN OF TRUBSCHACHEN. 41:35.200 --> 41:37.300 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:57.5% MAN: HERE WE GO. HELLO. COOKIE FOR YOU. 41:37.400 --> 41:39.466 align:start position:30% line:79.33% size:50% JEFF: WOW. A COOKIE. THANKS. APPRECIATE IT. 41:39.566 --> 41:41.900 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:20% FROM THE KAMBLY PRODUCTION SITE. 41:42.000 --> 41:43.100 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:62.5% IT'S COMING UP NEXT STOP. 41:43.200 --> 41:44.733 align:start position:50% line:84.67% size:25% OH, GREAT. 41:44.833 --> 41:48.800 align:start position:10% line:74% size:47.5% IT'S FREE ENTRANCE, AND THERE YOU CAN TASTE OVER A HUNDRED COOKIES. 41:48.900 --> 41:50.166 align:start position:40% line:79.33% size:47.5% A HUNDRED DIFFERENT KINDS OF COOKIES? 41:50.266 --> 41:52.766 align:start position:40% line:74% size:42.5% THIS I GOTTA SEE. THIS IS RIGHT DOWN MY ALLEY. 41:55.566 --> 41:57.166 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:35% WE'RE GOING TO THE COOKIE FACTORY. 41:57.266 --> 41:58.900 align:start position:30% line:84.67% size:32.5% I CAN'T WAIT. 42:00.966 --> 42:03.333 align:start position:20% line:74% size:65% JEFF, VOICE-OVER: FOR MORE THAN A HUNDRED YEARS, KAMBLY HAS BEEN MAKING 42:03.433 --> 42:06.333 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:62.5% BISCUITS IN TRUBSCHACHEN, WATCHED OVER BY 3 42:06.433 --> 42:08.333 align:start position:20% line:84.67% size:55% GENERATIONS OF FAMILY. 42:08.433 --> 42:11.600 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:75% A TOUR THROUGH THE SHOWROOM IS SWEET-TOOTH'S DREAM, WITH FREE 42:11.700 --> 42:12.600 align:start position:30% line:84.67% size:37.5% SAMPLES GALORE. 42:12.700 --> 42:16.566 align:start position:30% line:79.33% size:35% I'M SUITING UP TO MAKE SOME COOKIES. 42:16.666 --> 42:18.233 align:start position:30% line:79.33% size:30% I'M LEARNING FROM THE BEST. 42:18.333 --> 42:21.233 align:start position:20% line:74% size:42.5% JEFF, VOICE-OVER: KAMBLY CLAIMS THEIR SECRET IS THAT THEY USE ONLY FRESH 42:21.333 --> 42:23.033 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:37.5% BUTTER AND MILK FROM LOCAL DAIRIES. 42:23.133 --> 42:24.400 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:42.5% OH, LOOK AT THIS. 42:24.500 --> 42:27.733 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:67.5% IT'S A CHOCOLATE FOUNTAIN-- NEVER-ENDING CHOCOLATE. 42:27.833 --> 42:29.733 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:65% WOMAN: IT'S DARK CHOCOLATE AND MILK CHOCOLATE. 42:29.833 --> 42:32.766 align:start position:20% line:74% size:35% SO YOU HAVE TO FILL THE BOWL, BUT NOT WITH THE FINGERS 42:32.866 --> 42:36.133 align:start position:30% line:79.33% size:40% BECAUSE IT'S NOT HYGIENIC. 42:36.233 --> 42:37.500 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:52.5% NOT WITH THE FINGERS, NONE OF THIS TASTING. 42:37.600 --> 42:38.566 align:start position:50% line:84.67% size:10% YES. 42:38.666 --> 42:41.966 align:start position:40% line:74% size:37.5% WE SET THE WARM DARK CHOCOLATE... YES. 42:42.066 --> 42:43.733 align:start position:40% line:79.33% size:47.5% AND I SEE FROM WHAT YOU'VE MADE 42:43.833 --> 42:45.833 align:start position:40% line:79.33% size:32.5% I WANT TO DIP THE ENDS 42:45.933 --> 42:48.666 align:start position:40% line:79.33% size:30% AND THEN DIP THEM IN--IS THIS... 42:48.766 --> 42:50.066 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:47.5% THEY ARE HAZELNUTS. HAZELNUTS. 42:50.166 --> 42:51.066 align:start position:40% line:79.33% size:27.5% MMM. THAT'S MY FAVORITE. 42:51.166 --> 42:52.100 align:start position:40% line:79.33% size:20% HAZELNUT IS MY FAVORITE. 42:52.200 --> 42:55.766 align:start position:40% line:79.33% size:47.5% OK, SO I TAKE THIS, AND I DIP A LITTLE. 42:55.866 --> 42:58.533 align:start position:40% line:79.33% size:42.5% OH, I'M NOT DOING VERY WELL. 42:58.633 --> 43:00.600 align:start position:40% line:79.33% size:42.5% DIP THE HAZELNUT. DIP THE HAZELNUT. 43:00.700 --> 43:02.700 align:start position:40% line:79.33% size:35% I'D HAVE TO BE A LOT FASTER 43:02.800 --> 43:05.233 align:start position:40% line:74% size:35% IF I WANTED TO WORK IN THE COOKIE FACTORY. 43:05.333 --> 43:06.233 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:37.5% IT'S VERY GOOD. 43:06.333 --> 43:08.100 align:start position:40% line:79.33% size:40% HANG ON. THIS IS ONE I MADE. 43:08.200 --> 43:11.600 align:start position:40% line:79.33% size:37.5% NOTICE MINE--MY COOKIES HAVE LITTLE 43:11.700 --> 43:14.000 align:start position:40% line:74% size:22.5% CHOCOLATE FINGERPRINTS ALL OVER THEM. 43:14.100 --> 43:16.033 align:start position:40% line:79.33% size:22.5% MARLISE'S COOKIES ARE PERFECT. 43:16.133 --> 43:19.433 align:start position:40% line:79.33% size:35% BUT MINE TASTE JUST AS GOOD. 43:19.533 --> 43:22.033 align:start position:40% line:84.67% size:37.5% MMM. THANK YOU. 43:27.833 --> 43:30.933 align:start position:20% line:74% size:42.5% JEFF, VOICE-OVER: THE TOWN'S RESIDENTS PAY TRIBUTE TO EARLIER TIMES 43:31.033 --> 43:33.833 align:start position:20% line:84.67% size:57.5% AT THE HERITAGE MUSEUM. 43:33.933 --> 43:36.600 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:57.5% THIS CAREFULLY RESTORED FARMHOUSE SHOWS WHAT LIFE WAS 43:36.700 --> 43:39.900 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:77.5% LIKE HERE IN THE 18th CENTURY-- EVERYTHING FROM CHILDREN'S 43:40.000 --> 43:42.100 align:start position:20% line:84.67% size:60% LINENS TO CHEESE-MAKING. 43:44.366 --> 43:48.366 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:60% POTTERY FROM THIS REGION IS WELL-KNOWN IN SWITZERLAND. 43:48.466 --> 43:51.133 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:67.5% THERE ARE ONLY A HANDFUL OF COMPANIES LEFT THAT MASTER 43:51.233 --> 43:54.566 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:52.5% THIS OLD-WORLD CRAFT, INCLUDING AEBI POTTERY. 43:54.666 --> 43:57.166 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:70% THEIR DISTINCTIVE MOTIFS ARE MADE UP OF NUMEROUS SMALL 43:57.266 --> 44:00.666 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:50% DOTS, AND EACH PIECE OF CERAMIC IS UNIQUE. 44:00.766 --> 44:02.900 align:start position:30% line:74% size:37.5% JEFF: YOU KNOW, I COULD DO THAT CIRCLE STUFF ALL DAY, 44:03.000 --> 44:04.500 align:start position:30% line:84.67% size:52.5% BUT THIS IS REALLY... 44:04.600 --> 44:05.566 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:15% WOMAN: IT'S NOT EASY! 44:05.666 --> 44:06.566 align:start position:50% line:84.67% size:7.5% NO. 44:06.666 --> 44:08.566 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:22.5% IT'S FUN. 44:08.666 --> 44:09.700 align:start position:40% line:84.67% size:25% IT IS FUN. 44:09.800 --> 44:11.400 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:55% I CAN SEE HOW IT WOULD BE VERY THERAPEUTIC. 44:11.500 --> 44:13.733 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:47.5% IT'S KIND OF LIKE-- YOU HAVE THE KAMBLY CUP? 44:13.833 --> 44:17.800 align:start position:20% line:74% size:45% ALL RIGHT. THIS IS THE JEFF WILSON "REAL RAIL ADVENTURES" CUP. 44:17.900 --> 44:19.166 align:start position:50% line:84.67% size:37.5% WOMAN: AH, YES. 44:19.266 --> 44:21.100 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:50% AND IT'S GOING TO BE IN THE SHAPE OF... 44:21.200 --> 44:22.500 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:45% HANG ON. I'M GOING TO TELL YOU 44:22.600 --> 44:24.033 align:start position:20% line:74% size:37.5% WHAT IT'S GOING TO BE IN THE SHAPE OF WHEN I'M DONE 44:24.133 --> 44:25.066 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:37.5% BECAUSE I DON'T REALLY KNOW YET. 44:25.166 --> 44:26.500 align:start position:50% line:84.67% size:40% IT'S--IT'S GOOD. 44:26.600 --> 44:27.500 align:start position:30% line:84.67% size:37.5% DO YOU LIKE IT? 44:27.600 --> 44:28.866 align:start position:30% line:79.33% size:30% THERE IT IS, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. 44:28.966 --> 44:31.266 align:start position:30% line:79.33% size:37.5% UM, IT'S REALLY A SIMPLE PROCESS 44:31.366 --> 44:33.566 align:start position:30% line:84.67% size:50% THAT ANYBODY CAN DO. 44:33.666 --> 44:34.866 align:start position:30% line:84.67% size:52.5% I'M GOING TO STICK TO 44:34.966 --> 44:37.066 align:start position:30% line:79.33% size:17.5% HOSTING TELEVISION SHOWS, 44:37.166 --> 44:38.833 align:start position:30% line:79.33% size:47.5% AND MAYBE I'LL JUST BUY A CUP. HOW'S THAT? 44:38.933 --> 44:40.833 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:42.5% YES. OK. YES. OK. 44:40.933 --> 44:41.833 align:start position:40% line:84.67% size:25% THANK YOU. 44:41.933 --> 44:44.666 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:35% NOT A PROBLEM. 44:44.766 --> 44:47.766 align:start position:20% line:74% size:42.5% JEFF, VOICE-OVER: DOWN THE STREET, THE JAKOB COMPANY'S ROPETRAIL USES 44:47.866 --> 44:50.900 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:62.5% INTERACTIVE TECHNOLOGY TO PULL VISITORS INTO THE WORLD 44:51.000 --> 44:53.366 align:start position:30% line:84.67% size:35% OF ROPEMAKING. 44:53.466 --> 44:55.766 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:57.5% ONE OF THE GREAT THINGS ABOUT THE ROPETRAIL IS 44:55.866 --> 44:56.866 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:35% YOU DON'T HAVE TO GO INTO THE BUILDING. 44:56.966 --> 44:58.533 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:60% YOU CAN ACTUALLY DO THIS ANYTIME YOU WANT. 44:58.633 --> 45:01.366 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:67.5% JUST SHOW UP AND, UH, BRING YOUR SMARTPHONE AND GO. 45:01.466 --> 45:02.900 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:75% THERE'S FREE PUBLIC WI-FI HERE 45:03.000 --> 45:06.966 align:start position:10% line:74% size:55% FOR YOU TO TO DOWNLOAD THE APP AND GET ON THE ROPETRAIL. 45:07.066 --> 45:09.500 align:start position:20% line:74% size:42.5% JEFF, VOICE-OVER: A CENTURY AGO, THE JAKOB COMPANY JUST MADE ROPES 45:09.600 --> 45:12.433 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:72.5% FOR LOCAL FARMERS, AND NOW IT LASSOS BUSINESS FROM MORE THAN 45:12.533 --> 45:15.633 align:start position:30% line:84.67% size:32.5% 55 COUNTRIES. 45:15.733 --> 45:18.466 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:57.5% THERE. I LEARNED TO TIE A PARTIAL KNOT, SO IF I HAVE TO 45:18.566 --> 45:21.866 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:40% TIE UP A PACKAGE AT HOME, I'M READY TO GO. 45:21.966 --> 45:24.000 align:start position:20% line:74% size:42.5% JEFF, VOICE-OVER: IF YOU GO INSIDE THE MUSEUM, YOU CAN ACTUALLY CREATE 45:24.100 --> 45:26.000 align:start position:30% line:84.67% size:35% YOUR OWN ROPE. 45:26.100 --> 45:27.166 align:start position:30% line:79.33% size:50% JEFF: I SEE YOU HAVE INSTRUCTIONS HERE 45:27.266 --> 45:28.500 align:start position:30% line:79.33% size:25% SO ANYBODY WHO WALKS IN CAN... 45:28.600 --> 45:32.066 align:start position:10% line:74% size:35% MAN: CAN READ, CAN SEE THE PICTURES AND CAN DO THIS. 45:32.166 --> 45:33.566 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:62.5% AND WE TAKE THIS UP HERE, AND THIS IS GOING TO HOLD 45:33.666 --> 45:35.566 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:42.5% THE ROPE--OR HOLD THE STRANDS SEPARATE. 45:35.666 --> 45:36.566 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:32.5% MAN: EXACTLY. 45:36.666 --> 45:39.266 align:start position:40% line:79.33% size:37.5% AND ALL THE WAY UP TO THE END. 45:39.366 --> 45:42.200 align:start position:40% line:79.33% size:30% REPLACE THIS WITH THE HOOK. 45:42.300 --> 45:44.066 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:45% NOW YOU CAN TWIST. 45:46.500 --> 45:49.166 align:start position:30% line:74% size:37.5% AND AS I TWIST, THE STRANDS GET TIGHTER AND TIGHTER. 45:49.266 --> 45:52.233 align:start position:30% line:74% size:37.5% NOW THE ROPE IS BEGINNING TO FORM AT THE FRONT. YEAH. 45:53.600 --> 45:57.266 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:30% THE LEITHOST IS MOVING. 45:57.366 --> 45:58.600 align:start position:40% line:79.33% size:22.5% AND RIGHT UP TO THE END. 45:58.700 --> 45:59.633 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:20% EXACTLY. 45:59.733 --> 46:01.233 align:start position:40% line:10% size:42.5% WE CUT IT, RIGHT? AND... 46:01.333 --> 46:02.766 align:start position:10% line:10% size:37.5% NOW WE CAN CUT. 46:02.866 --> 46:04.100 align:start position:40% line:10% size:35% AND PUT A KNOT ON EACH END. 46:04.200 --> 46:05.800 align:start position:10% line:10% size:47.5% SO YOU HAVE YOUR... 46:05.900 --> 46:08.166 align:start position:40% line:10% size:47.5% YOU HAVE YOUR ROPE. YEAH. INTERESTING. 46:11.966 --> 46:14.400 align:start position:40% line:10% size:37.5% [CHILD SPEAKING GERMAN] 46:14.500 --> 46:16.600 align:start position:20% line:10% size:42.5% JEFF, VOICE-OVER: BACK ON BOARD THE TRAIN, I ENCOUNTER A SWISS 46:16.700 --> 46:20.033 align:start position:20% line:10% size:52.5% VERSION OF AN "I SPY" DRIVING GAME FOR KIDS. 46:20.133 --> 46:23.000 align:start position:40% line:84.67% size:42.5% [SPEAKING GERMAN] 46:23.100 --> 46:25.466 align:start position:40% line:84.67% size:25% ESMERALDA. 46:25.566 --> 46:27.100 align:start position:20% line:74% size:42.5% JEFF, VOICE-OVER: IT'S A TREASURE HUNT COMPLETE WITH MAP. 46:27.200 --> 46:28.733 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:42.5% [SPEAKING GERMAN] 46:31.666 --> 46:32.866 align:start position:30% line:79.33% size:42.5% JEFF, VOICE-OVER: KIDS READ A STORY 46:32.966 --> 46:35.733 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:77.5% ABOUT THE NOT-TERRIBLY-FEARSOME CAPTAIN ENGELBART 46:35.833 --> 46:38.633 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:72.5% WHO'S LOST ALL OF HIS PIRATES AND NEEDS HELP FINDING THEM. 46:41.366 --> 46:44.700 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:70% SO THE OBJECT OF THE GAME IS TO FIND THE BAND OF PIRATES 46:44.800 --> 46:47.366 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:70% ONE AT A TIME AND MARK THEIR NUMBERS INTO THE BOOKLET. 46:47.466 --> 46:49.100 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:42.5% [SPEAKING GERMAN] 46:54.566 --> 46:56.000 align:start position:20% line:74% size:42.5% JEFF, VOICE-OVER: KIDS HAVE TO LOOK OUT OF THE TRAIN WINDOW 46:56.100 --> 46:57.133 align:start position:20% line:84.67% size:47.5% AT THE RIGHT PLACES 46:57.233 --> 47:01.233 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:50% MARKED ON THE MAP TO FIND EACH OF THE PIRATES. 47:01.333 --> 47:04.500 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:67.5% IT'S A FUN WAY TO KEEP KIDS ENGAGED WHEN TRAVELING. 47:04.600 --> 47:05.633 align:start position:20% line:84.67% size:47.5% JEFF: HURRY, HURRY! 47:05.733 --> 47:08.333 align:start position:30% line:84.67% size:47.5% [BOY SPEAKS GERMAN] 47:13.900 --> 47:15.266 align:start position:30% line:84.67% size:37.5% [SPEAKS GERMAN] 47:17.166 --> 47:19.466 align:start position:20% line:74% size:42.5% JEFF, VOICE-OVER: IF YOU GET 4 CORRECT MATCHES, YOU CAN COLLECT 47:19.566 --> 47:22.666 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:57.5% A TREASURE AT THE TRAIN STATION IN ENGELBERG. 47:22.766 --> 47:23.733 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:27.5% MAN: VOILA. 47:23.833 --> 47:24.733 align:start position:50% line:79.33% size:32.5% [WOMAN SPEAKS GERMAN] 47:24.833 --> 47:25.966 align:start position:40% line:84.67% size:15% DANKE. 47:30.666 --> 47:32.800 align:start position:20% line:10% size:42.5% JEFF, VOICE-OVER: AS YOU WALK TOWARD ENGELBERG, 47:32.900 --> 47:36.433 align:start position:20% line:10% size:55% SURROUNDED BY PASTURES AND FRAMED IN A CIRCLE OF MOUNTAINS, 47:36.533 --> 47:39.300 align:start position:20% line:10% size:65% YOU CAN TELL YOU'RE COMING TO A SPECIAL PLACE. 47:42.166 --> 47:47.633 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:70% THE TOWN IS A HAVEN OF QUIET STREETS AND SWISS CHARM. 47:47.733 --> 47:51.366 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:70% BUT THE SOUL OF ENGELBERG IS THE BENEDICTINE MONASTERY: 47:51.466 --> 47:54.300 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:67.5% A STATELY WHITE EDIFICE SET AGAINST AN ALPINE VISTA. 47:54.400 --> 47:56.566 align:start position:20% line:84.67% size:60% [MONASTERY BELL RINGING] 47:59.300 --> 48:03.200 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:75% NEARLY 900 YEARS AGO, A ZURICH NOBLEMAN ALONG WITH A GROUP 48:03.300 --> 48:06.266 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:50% OF BENEDICTINE MONKS FOUNDED THIS MONASTERY. 48:06.366 --> 48:09.233 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:55% IT WOULD BECOME ONE OF THE GREAT CENTERS OF LEARNING 48:09.333 --> 48:10.500 align:start position:30% line:84.67% size:37.5% IN SWITZERLAND. 48:10.600 --> 48:13.133 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:45% SURVIVING INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL CONFLICTS, 48:13.233 --> 48:16.133 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:75% DEVASTATING FIRES AND PLAGUES, MONKS HAVE LIVED HERE 48:16.233 --> 48:18.166 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:42.5% CONTINUOUSLY DOWN THROUGH THE CENTURIES. 48:24.666 --> 48:27.233 align:start position:20% line:74% size:42.5% JEFF, VOICE-OVER: THE MONASTERY IS STILL A CENTER OF INSPIRATION 48:27.333 --> 48:29.100 align:start position:30% line:79.33% size:40% AND ACTIVITY FOR THE COMMUNITY. 48:30.833 --> 48:34.733 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:50% CONCERTS ARE HELD IN THE BAROQUE MUSIC HALL. 48:34.833 --> 48:38.666 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:72.5% THIS ROOM, CALLED THE CHAMBER OF VIRTUES, WAS CREATED BY ONE 48:38.766 --> 48:40.766 align:start position:30% line:84.67% size:32.5% OF THE MONKS. 48:40.866 --> 48:43.333 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:72.5% IT TOOK 10 YEARS TO CAREFULLY INLAY THE WOOD 48:43.433 --> 48:44.766 align:start position:20% line:84.67% size:47.5% IN THE WALL PANELS. 48:47.166 --> 48:50.500 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:52.5% VISITORS ON SPIRITUAL RETREATS OFTEN STAY IN FORMER 48:50.600 --> 48:54.000 align:start position:30% line:84.67% size:27.5% MONK CELLS. 48:54.100 --> 48:56.700 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:42.5% AND THE CHURCH IS A BAROQUE WORK OF ART. 48:56.800 --> 48:59.700 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:65% THE WALLS AND CEILING GLOW WITH RELIGIOUS PAINTINGS 48:59.800 --> 49:01.266 align:start position:20% line:84.67% size:45% AND CARVED ANGELS. 49:01.366 --> 49:04.266 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:65% A GOLDEN CHANDELIER LIGHTS THE WAY FOR THE HOLY. 49:04.366 --> 49:06.800 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:57.5% AND THE CHURCH ORGAN IS THE LARGEST PIPE ORGAN 49:06.900 --> 49:09.100 align:start position:30% line:84.67% size:37.5% IN SWITZERLAND. 49:09.200 --> 49:11.666 align:start position:20% line:84.67% size:52.5% [MAN SPEAKING GERMAN] 49:23.000 --> 49:24.300 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:67.5% JEFF, VOICE-OVER: THERE ARE STILL ABOUT 20 MONKS 49:24.400 --> 49:25.833 align:start position:20% line:84.67% size:60% LIVING AT THE MONASTERY. 49:25.933 --> 49:28.133 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:75% THEY SPEND THEIR DAYS TEACHING STUDENTS, MINISTERING TO THE 49:28.233 --> 49:31.333 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:65% COMMUNITY, AND CULTIVATING BEAUTIFUL GARDENS. 49:31.433 --> 49:33.933 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:55% WHAT IS IT THAT YOU DO HERE AT THE MONASTERY? 49:34.033 --> 49:37.800 align:start position:30% line:10% size:42.5% [SPEAKING GERMAN] 49:37.900 --> 49:39.066 align:start position:30% line:10% size:60% TRANSLATOR: I SERVE GOD, 49:39.166 --> 49:42.966 align:start position:30% line:10% size:37.5% SO IN MY DUTIES BEING A MONK, I PRAY 5 TIMES A DAY. 49:43.066 --> 49:45.566 align:start position:30% line:79.33% size:15% THAT'S MY NUMBER-ONE DUTY. 49:45.666 --> 49:47.566 align:start position:30% line:79.33% size:50% AND OTHER THAN THAT, OF COURSE, 49:47.666 --> 49:49.500 align:start position:30% line:79.33% size:45% MY PASSION GOES TO THE FLOWERS. 49:49.600 --> 49:51.833 align:start position:30% line:79.33% size:50% I USED TO WORK A LOT OUTSIDE IN THE GARDEN, 49:51.933 --> 49:54.000 align:start position:30% line:79.33% size:40% BUT NOWADAYS I'M MORE IN THE SHOP 49:54.100 --> 49:57.666 align:start position:30% line:79.33% size:47.5% BECAUSE I'VE BECOME A LITTLE BIT OLDER. 49:57.766 --> 49:59.800 align:start position:30% line:79.33% size:57.5% WE ALSO DO MANY FLOWERS FOR THE RESTAURANTS 49:59.900 --> 50:01.133 align:start position:30% line:84.67% size:47.5% AND HOTELS IN TOWN. 50:01.233 --> 50:04.466 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:42.5% [SPEAKING GERMAN] 50:09.133 --> 50:10.500 align:start position:50% line:79.33% size:30% I GROW BEETS AT HOME. 50:10.600 --> 50:12.466 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:42.5% [SPEAKING GERMAN] 50:15.433 --> 50:17.566 align:start position:20% line:84.67% size:60% [MONASTERY BELL RINGING] 50:24.300 --> 50:26.566 align:start position:20% line:74% size:42.5% JEFF, VOICE-OVER: IT'S EASY TO SEE WHY THOSE 12th-CENTURY MONKS 50:26.666 --> 50:30.233 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:67.5% NAMED THIS PLACE ENGELBERG, OR MOUNTAIN OF ANGELS. 50:30.333 --> 50:32.700 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:62.5% IT'S A LITTLE LIKE HEAVEN ON EARTH, ESPECIALLY 50:32.800 --> 50:34.866 align:start position:30% line:84.67% size:42.5% FOR OUTDOOR FANS. 50:40.166 --> 50:42.966 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:67.5% WHAT'S BETTER THAN KAYAKING FOR IMMERSING YOURSELF 50:43.066 --> 50:44.433 align:start position:30% line:84.67% size:40% IN QUIET BEAUTY? 50:49.900 --> 50:53.266 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:67.5% A TRIP OUT ON LAKE TRUBSEE, WITH ITS CLEAR GLACIAL WATER 50:53.366 --> 50:56.633 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:62.5% AND SHEER MOUNTAIN WALLS, SERVES UP A GENEROUS PORTION 50:56.733 --> 50:57.966 align:start position:20% line:84.67% size:45% OF SWISS SERENITY. 51:08.066 --> 51:10.966 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:70% AND THIS IS AN ACTIVITY THAT JUST ABOUT ANY FITNESS LEVEL 51:11.066 --> 51:12.833 align:start position:30% line:84.67% size:30% CAN TAKE ON. 51:27.666 --> 51:31.300 align:start position:20% line:10% size:60% NEARBY, A GONDOLA CALLED THE TITLIS ROTAIR IS 51:31.400 --> 51:33.366 align:start position:20% line:10% size:57.5% AN ENGINEERING TRIUMPH. 51:33.466 --> 51:38.633 align:start position:10% line:10% size:62.5% ON THE 5-MINUTE TRIP, THE GONDOLA REVOLVES 360 DEGREES. 51:38.733 --> 51:42.300 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:65% THIS IS THE QUINTESSENTIAL MODERN SWISS EXPERIENCE. 51:45.533 --> 51:48.433 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:62.5% GLIDING SMOOTHLY OVER THE RUGGED LANDSCAPE, IT PROVIDES 51:48.533 --> 51:51.666 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:57.5% HEART-STOPPING VIEWS OF THE SNOWY SUMMITS. 51:59.033 --> 52:01.166 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:60% WE'RE UP AT 10,000 FEET, 52:01.266 --> 52:04.400 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:67.5% AND ON A CLEAR DAY, YOU CAN SEE ALL THE WAY TO ITALY. 52:04.500 --> 52:08.400 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:35% YOU CAN 82% OF SWITZERLAND FROM THIS SPOT. 52:11.000 --> 52:13.200 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:42.5% JEFF, VOICE-OVER: THIS IS PLACE FOR EXTREMES... 52:13.300 --> 52:14.733 align:start position:30% line:84.67% size:40% EXTREME HEIGHTS, 52:14.833 --> 52:18.433 align:start position:30% line:79.33% size:37.5% EXTREME BEAUTY, AND EXTREME COLD! 52:46.666 --> 52:49.233 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:47.5% I'M WALKING THROUGH THE GLACIER CAVE. 52:49.333 --> 52:52.600 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:47.5% IT'S 500 FEET LONG, AND IT'S UNDER A HUNDRED FEET 52:52.700 --> 52:54.566 align:start position:30% line:84.67% size:32.5% OF SOLID ICE. 52:54.666 --> 52:56.866 align:start position:20% line:74% size:65% HONESTLY I THINK I'M GOING TO HEAD TO THE CAFETERIA FOR A CUP OF COFFEE 52:56.966 --> 52:58.866 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:30% BECAUSE IT'S A LITTLE CHILLY IN HERE. 53:04.166 --> 53:07.933 align:start position:20% line:74% size:57.5% JEFF, VOICE-OVER: AFTER FORTIFYING MYSELF WITH SOME CAFFEINATED COURAGE, 53:08.033 --> 53:10.266 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:50% I'M READY TO TAKE ON ONE LAST CHALLENGE. 53:10.366 --> 53:12.266 align:start position:30% line:84.67% size:35% [WIND BLOWING] 53:15.666 --> 53:19.433 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:75% WE ARE UP AT THE TOP OF TITLIS HERE, AND WE'RE AT A SUSPENSION 53:19.533 --> 53:22.566 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:62.5% BRIDGE WHERE YOU CAN WALK OUT OVER THE GLACIER. 53:22.666 --> 53:25.033 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:55% YOU CAN HANG OVER THIS INCREDIBLE LANDSCAPE. 53:25.133 --> 53:26.400 align:start position:30% line:79.33% size:37.5% THIS IS NOT FOR THE SQUEAMISH, 53:26.500 --> 53:29.133 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:67.5% NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART. 53:29.233 --> 53:31.266 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:70% IF YOU'RE AFRAID OF HEIGHTS, YOU MIGHT WANT TO STAY 53:31.366 --> 53:33.233 align:start position:30% line:79.33% size:37.5% ON THE--STAY ON SOLID GROUND. 53:33.333 --> 53:35.000 align:start position:20% line:84.67% size:20% OH, MAN. 53:35.100 --> 53:37.366 align:start position:20% line:74% size:42.5% JEFF, VOICE-OVER: BUT IF YOU'RE UP FOR AERIAL THRILLS, 53:37.466 --> 53:39.733 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:47.5% YOU CAN'T BEAT THIS AMAZING FOOTBRIDGE. 53:42.166 --> 53:45.500 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:47.5% THIS IS THE HIGHEST SUSPENSION BRIDGE IN EUROPE. 53:45.600 --> 53:48.566 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:65% THEY SAY THAT TO CROSS IT, YOU NEED NERVES AS STRONG AS 53:48.666 --> 53:50.600 align:start position:30% line:79.33% size:40% THE STEEL CABLES THAT SUPPORT IT. 54:54.833 --> 54:57.166 align:start position:30% line:74% size:42.5% JEFF, VOICE-OVER: ON A RECENT WORLD HAPPINESS REPORT, 54:57.266 --> 55:01.266 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:55% SWITZERLAND ONCE AGAIN TOPPED THE LIST. 55:01.366 --> 55:02.800 align:start position:20% line:84.67% size:50% WHAT'S THEIR SECRET? 55:02.900 --> 55:05.233 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:47.5% IS IT THE COUNTLESS CHARMING VILLAGES? 55:05.333 --> 55:07.600 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:72.5% IS IT THE FRESH-FROM-THE-FARM PRODUCE? 55:07.700 --> 55:09.800 align:start position:20% line:84.67% size:50% IS IT THE CHOCOLATE? 55:09.900 --> 55:13.466 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:60% EXPERTS SAY IT'S BECAUSE THEY INVEST IN THEIR PEOPLE 55:13.566 --> 55:16.533 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:75% AND THEY WORK HARD TO PRESERVE THE NATURAL WONDERS THAT 55:16.633 --> 55:20.733 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:65% NURTURE THEIR SPIRITS--NOW AND FOR GENERATIONS TO COME. 55:26.166 --> 55:28.700 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:55% JEFF: I KNOW I'M HAPPY WHEN I'M IN SWITZERLAND 55:28.800 --> 55:31.400 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:55% BECAUSE NATURAL BEAUTY IS AROUND EVERY CORNER 55:31.500 --> 55:34.666 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:60% AND OUTDOOR ADVENTURE IS ALWAYS JUST A TRAIN RIDE AWAY. 55:34.766 --> 55:36.866 align:start position:20% line:79.33% size:40% I'M JEFF WILSON. 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