Aida-castel Crans-Montana

Destination 405<br><br>km197'555<br><br>Not entirely shure, if I spend my last day in a foreign country, I head towards north. A stopover at Novi Ligure provides me finally the opportunity to send a notification to all family and friends about my remaining itinerary before return back home. The date has been fixed to the 29.<br>The ride up to Vercelly in the low lands was not that exciting like the sighting of the mountain of Mont Blanc in the far. Since my ...

... the casualties of the Matterhorn.<br>Zermatt itself is tiny, with only electric taxis. It is much colder than Lauterbrunnen even though it's on the border of Italy.<br>Switzerland is strange. It has no language of its own. In Bern, Lauterbrunnen and Zermatt they speak German but in Montreux they speak French, even the train announcements change languages. It gets confusing, so I just stick to greeting people in English most of the time. When I had arrived here I was fuming a bit because I ...

... deep snow up there for a while till my feet started getting cold. Kathleen hadnt come up but I was so glad I did! Also this place is where they filmed one of the James Bond films.. his majestys service. Cool! After this I made my way down the 3 gondolas to at the bottom. Then took a bus to a place called Trümmelbach falls. Its a series of 10 waterfalls that are partly inside the mountains. Over the years they have carved out corkscrew holes ...

... Bill said how elated he was with our surroundings, and I can&#8217;t disagree either. We were right up close to the three famous mountains of the region (Jungfrau, Monch, and Eiger), Europe&#8217;s highest train station, and the place where 007 movie &#8220;On Her Majesty&#8217;s Secret Service&#8221; was filmed. After gradually gaining 1000m in altitude, we found ourselves at the top of a very ...

29/9 - 4/10 With Oktoberfest over and done with, we were now on our way home, well London home anyway. To tell the truth, I was glad about this, we were almost at our 6th mth mark and I was getting sick of being in a new town, a new country every week. So it was on to Switzerland, France and Spain. On the way out of Germany we stopped off at Neuschwanstein castle in Fussen. This is meant to be the real life Disney castle, the one they got the idea from ...

... France, the crossing into Switzerland, then stopping again, the views dramatically changed. Though we weren't in the Alps yet, I knew we were close. Going past Lausanne, the headquarters of the IOC, and Montreux on Lake Geneva, the views dramatically changed into the Alpine views we all knew. The village of Crans-Montana was at one point two separate villages ...

... well spent. The pass let me hop on and off most of the trains and cable cars in the area, I think I took everything I could that my pass would let me. The 2 tops peaks the Shilthorn and the Jungfrau, cost big bucks to go up, $60 each way for the Shilthorn and $100 each way the the Jungfrau, so I didn't go, oh well another reason to come back! So tomorrow its off the Lucerne for a boat ride, and a night in jail.

After a rather sweaty night of broken sleep in our ritzy-esque hotel in Lugano, we enjoyed our croissant breakfast and did a little morning grocery shopping.  We all had a look at some of the clothes they had on sale, some of us shopping more seriously than others,  and headed back to pack up the car.  Mike, Marla, and Nate hit the road on the Motorbikes but we stopped off at a Cathedral in town that was supposed to have an amazing fresco inside of ...

... through the mountains to get away and ambush the enemy... Goin up to the Swiss Alps today yeah!! Walk to the clog train, start going up a huge mountain, the scenery starts with green trees and grass and ends with spectacular white mountains with us above the clouds. On the way up the train stops twice, once to pick passengers up, the 2nd is to let us ...

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