Sibylle and I have been making good use of the inter-city trains in Europe this year.  The day we arrived we took a train from Zürich to Stuttgart, and Sunday we rode from Stuttgart to Brixen (Bressanone) in Südtirol.  Trains have several advantages (and maybe one or two minor disadvantages) not the least of which is being able to sit back and relax.  As you can see below, we’ve both taken advantage of that aspect of train travel.