The Bernina Red Train: everyone is talking about it, it is now everywhere with breathtaking images of summer and winter landscapes. Sometimes we talk about the long things that form a Tiranothe departure station, especially in high season. But the train offers much more than breathtaking views and landscapes. I’ll tell you my experience.
The breathtaking images
Tirano – Saint Moritz in approximately two hours and 30 minutes, crossing the snow-capped Swiss Alps: an experience that, yes, is also worth the long queues at the departure station, with wake-up calls before dawn and a fair amount of disorganization that I honestly didn’t expect. It repays the intense cold, it repays the chaos and even the lack of hours of sleep.
Why? Certainly because as soon as the train leaves, the sun rises behind the snow-capped mountains, then continuing an incredible journey through the mountains, rising in altitude from less than 500 meters above sea level to over 2000 metres.
The beauty of nature and humanity
But no, this might not have been enough, even though I was lucky enough to do two laps on sunny and windless days. What, in my experience, “gives that extra something” is something that we have unfortunately forgotten today: on that train people talk, interact, and use the phone only to take photos, even going so far as to exchange contacts with perfect strangers just for the exchange.
Because maybe that neighbor managed to catch a wonderful detail, or because in a “crucial” moment he was more attentive. Yes, on that train photos are exchanged with unknown neighbors, they are not just sent to distant friends and relatives. And we are given advice on what to see, what perhaps isn’t written in the guidebooks.
The Bernina Red Train is a train made up of people who, in my experience, rarely complain about the long queues at the station and the objective poor organization, focused on the beauty of nature and humanity.
