An epic train journey through the Swiss Alps — frozen passes, snow-covered villages, and glass-car panoramas — then north to Iceland's volcanic winter coastline, where black sand meets ice and the light barely rises.
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Swiss Alps
Switzerland in winter is what every snow globe is trying to be. We rode the Glacier Express through frozen passes the train has been threading for a hundred years — the panoramic glass roof letting the peaks fall in over your head as the carriage swung through hairpin tunnels and over centuries-old viaducts. The villages between are small, wooden, and quiet under several feet of snow. You learn to listen for the bell on the back of a horse-drawn sleigh because there's almost no other sound. The Matterhorn appears once and you stop breathing.
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Iceland
Iceland in winter does not greet you. The sun rises around eleven and sets again before four, and what light there is comes in long, low, and sideways. We worked the south coast — Vík and Reynisfjara, where the Atlantic throws itself at black volcanic sand and basalt sea stacks; Diamond Beach, where chunks of glacier wash up like jewels on the same black shore; and the ring road's blue-ice caves underneath the Vatnajökull glacier. The aurora came on three nights out of seven. The wind never stopped. It is the most honest landscape on earth.
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