On a warm Thursday morning in July, we boarded the historic Muottas Muragl funicular to climb to 2,456 metres above St Moritz to enjoy the views over the Swiss Alpine town of St Moritz and the wider Engadin valley.
The funicular was built in 1907 and although modernised a couple of times, remains essentially the same as back then. It climbs through the trees for 700m before arriving at its destination the Muottas Muragl at 2456m.
The red train, with its wooden benches angled for the steep ascent and descent take you back in time to a place where travel was slower and more enjoyable than today’s hectic pace. Sitting behind the driver, gazing out of the window, watching the trees pass by and patches of sunlight hitting the forest floor - you can feel the tensions of modern life drifting away as if part of a bad dream you’re only just waking up from.
At the top, we moved away from the crowds to find a quiet vantage point to view the valley and listen to the skylarks hovering overhead. Sitting on a rock amongst the flowers and grasses, time slowed down even more and apart from the urge to take photographs, we wanted for nothing at that point.
