Aparthotel Helvetia Intergolf Crans-Montana

... control recently has broken down, this was the perfect sign to follow, where I planed to cross the border to Switzerland.<br><br>Just arrived in late afternoon to Aosta, I was not only already entered to the italian part of the alps but also to the point of good bye. Here I decided not to spend another night in Italy and crossed the border to my homecountry Switzerland a hour later at Calle del Gran San Bernardo. <br><br>BIENVENUE EN SUISSE - WELCOME TO SWITZERLAND

... used my final day of my eurrail pass for this trip only to find that the trip from Visp station to the Zermatt was not valid despite being told by two train operators that it was. I also couldn't get through to the girl at the station that my eurrail pass allows me discounts for the train but she kept telling me, 'no, no, you can't use anymore days it's full'. Today wasn't the first time I have been stuffed around by the Swiss. It's hard to believe that Einstein was educated here.<br><br><br>

... mountains, crunching through frozen puddles and the melting and falling off the trees..ahhh.... At I decided I would get the gondola up to Schilthorn... its the 2nd highest mountain in the area. On the other side was Jungfraujoch which has the highest railway station in Europe but it was horrendously expensive!! It was -6 up there but lovely and sunny BUT guess who didnt have her sunglasses. Talk about snow blinding myself! ouch!!! I played out in ...

... drop full of avalanche protection fences for a much less gradual descent. These would also come in handy if either of us lost our footing&#8230; luckily not necessary.<br><br> In the next two days I did a couple more hikes, much easier. I took a walk down to the end of the valley, hiked up a bit of a hill, but nothing as strenuous as the first day. Got some more good views and considered that day ...

... Cappadocia recommended, jam and cheese on bread, not too bad I must say. Now after a day camping in a car park in France I decided that I had had enough and was ready to go back to London. Dave talked me into going to Barcelona and after a day and a half of driving we arrived. We did stop at Lyon on the way, a nice enough city, and watched some cool street performers, but other than that it was driving, lets hope Barcelona will be worth it. Miles so far:

We arrive in the 'Valley of the Waterfalls' and drive up the biggest valley of its kind in the world to Lauterbrunnen. This valley has 72 waterfall in it and as it is springtime all the snow melt is ensuring the valley lives up to its name. We pitch right below the one of the largest waterfalls in the valley. This is an amazing valley with such wicked views right outside out tent. It rains most of the time we are here, but on Wednesday the weather ...

... picked up again and Dan got absolutely soaked running bags up to the room and then looking for Gabrielle and Nate who had found their way to the 'cooking area' we were told about when we checked in.  Turned out that the 'cooking area' was a few camping stoves under a tarp outside.  There wasn't much in terms of plates or pots, and nothing in terms of utensils, but since we already had some travel utensils on us we managed a pretty good dinner ...

Sorry I havent written anything for a while, but since camp has started we have been working long long days. Not much has happened, Helena and I had a day of yesterday and we rode our bikes to Sierre which is 15km from here and 1000m lower elevation than us... so I dont think I peddalade once until we hit the 1st stop light in Sierre:) I'll write more soon CP

www.elodie50a.com<br><br>Here is a video (sorry for the very bad quality)<br>http://www.youtube.com/watc h?v=R5_9hODsqgs<br><br><br>

... taking all the pictures, we looked up and it had cleared up almost completely. Quite a sight. We then took a walk to Schlicthorn and rode the cable car down, which was famous because it was the scene in a James Bond movie. From there, we took about a half-hour walk, with stunning scenery along the way - we followed a stream in a valley with snow-capped peaks all around us and waterfalls everywhere. I kept taking pictures, I ...