This is Gornergrat and it has the highest hotel in Switzerland.
The only way to get here is by train and that's my kind of destination.
So when I noticed that there was a last-minute discount at this hotel, I knew I had to book it and that just left me to figure out how I was going to get there.
Thankfully, one of the things I love about living in Europe is how easy it is to travel to interesting places without spending a lot of time and money to get there.
The places I lived in Canada, even the nicer ones, were surrounded by car-centric urban sprawl in every direction.
And all of those beautiful outdoor places you might associate with Canada were only accessible with long and ludicrously expensive flights and or hours and hours of driving and traffic.
So I really appreciate the fact that, living in Amsterdam, I can get to most destinations in a day, or even better, while I sleep, by taking a night train.
My son had a week off school and after booking the hotel at Gornergrat, I started looking for a night train to Zurich.
And this brings me to one of the only things I hate about night trains in Europe.
There aren't nearly enough of them, so they're almost always full whenever I want to travel.
