Alpenroyal Swiss Q Hotel Zermatt

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 ...

I am only stayin the night just to see the Matterhorn. The sun is out and I took a hike up nearby hill. It was about an hour and a half uphill walk with regular short stops to catch my breath. I think I have had enough of hiking now, I did 4 hours of it at Montreux as well, I must have the best **** at the moment. Spectacular view of the mountain at the hilltop though. It's less of a mountain and more of a giant pinnacle of rock. It looks menacing, to prove it there is a nearby graveyard full ...

... It was a very pleasant walk and we didn&#8217;t mind the occasional slight uphill paths after what we had experienced at the beginning of our day!<br><br>We had bought rolls at the bakery to eat for lunch so we stopped at a pub on the mountain to share a beer and eat our lunch. They were charging to use the toilet if you weren&#8217;t a customer, so we figured it made sense to buy a drink and use the loo for free!<br><br>The last stretch of our walk had another small ...

... off a cliff, but it made an enornous roar and was really cool to see and hear. Walking uphill in the snow was hard work but it was so much fun running and sliding down. We went up the Sphinx lookout and chatted to fellow Aussies while taking (hopefully) excellent pics. The Ice Palace was great too, with lots of ice sculptures. We came back to Lauterbrunnen on the last train of the day, complete with a very large cow bell that I think will get my classes attention :-) <br><br><br><br><br><br>

... one of which was obviously our target. With lots of sign language, some French mixed with German, we got the idea over, and landed the photo. But we couldn't persuade him to do the handcuffs, so we didn't push our luck.<br><br>We crossed the border into France shortly afterwards and travelled along the Col du Petit Saint-Bernard (which, for some reason, google maps won't recognise as a road, although it shows it as a walking route!), and found ...

... took Evie back up via the Tram to the top of the Klein Matterhorn just before the last ride at 4:30p. Along the way, they watched a parade of swiss dancers with typical accordian players as they paraded down main street as part of an annual traditional festival.<br> <br>                  <br>

... we go to the restaurant for diner and a happy hour beer. It was a very good meal and lots to eat!<br><br>We took hot water bottles to bed with us, it wasn't too cold inside.<br><br>Traffic lights in Switzerland and Germany are before the intersection, not after it as in Canada and the US. This makes it impossible to creep forward into the intersection as you will not be able to see when the light changes to green.<br><br>

... issued me with a ticket, which was half price with my pass. At about 8 quid it was no skin off my nose as the views were absolutely amazing. It was a narrow gauge track, so sometimes there were huge drops just the other side of the window with water just cascading down the side of huge rock faces into the rivers at the bottom. Excellent. When I got to Zermatt (1620m above sea level) the hostel was quite easy to find and was very nice, modern and ...

... us... the only reason we got through the tunnel was because one nice old man on a vesper stopped the traffic coming the other way and we managed to squeeze through... The Italian roads really are quite pathetic and their tunnels are even more pathetic, tiny and falling apart with m************s in them and leaking water... it does not make you feel particularly safe. We decided to try and get back into Switzerland to get away from rude Italians and their terrible roads. We drove ...

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