De La Foret Crans-Montana

Destination 405

km197'555

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.
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.
Zermatt itself is tiny, with only electric taxis. It is much colder than Lauterbrunnen even though it's on the border of Italy.
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 ...

... room, toilets and showers to myself. I rarely saw anyone and reception was really nice. I then headed to Cully to try the famous Lavaux walk but caught a train that didn't make all the stops so I ended up at Lausanne again. I decided to take a bit of a walk, making my way through Pully and then to Letvy where I caught the train to Cully. The view was great but the vineyards that I stumbled across in Letvey were better because there was noone around and you could really smell the wine.

So my theory of.."you just turn on the gas stove and the van gets warm"...um no Emma. Not when its freezing - literally - outside.
I managed to get a waterproof jacket our first night which was a blessing!!!
Woke up Tuesday at 6.30am! It was still dark but the skies had finally cleared up and as I ran out in the cold to the toilet blocks I was rewarded by a sky full of stars.. so pretty! It was SO cold tho! I had all my clothes on! If I hadnt ...

... be a rest. Then I went up the opposite side of the valley to get a good overview of the marathon hike from the first day, see picture included. The views on this side were possibly even more spectacular than on the first day. I was elated.

On my last day I walked around Interlaken for a bit, only convincing myself that I made the right choice by not staying there.

Being from western ...

... the thrill has glossed over how desparate i was on top of the mountain. Single craziest experience thus far.
Met Alana. We arrived together in gimmelwald. She came with her friend Dan. but they're going their separate ways. She and I decided to travel together - florence, venice, budapest, croatia, then italy. Croatia and Italy fell thru because of her circumstances. she's 19.

... few days here would not be wasted. Dave had been here before so it was a Dave magical tour day, and we got to see the highlights. Lauterbrunnen was stop no. 2 and what a place. The camp site we stayed in was surrounded by mountains and had two waterfalls falling silently from above; I think I had fallen in love. After chilling out for a bit we got a combined ticket and got a few gondolas and trains around the Lauterbrunnen area. It was a great day in ...

... edge of one of those thousand-meter cliffs. Access is via a tram, then an electric light railway along the clifftop to the village. At Mürren we cross the street and are handed the key to room six of the Eiger Guesthouse. Clean and simple, it could be page 328 of the 2006 Ikea catalogue, save for the deck facing out over the valley floor toward the peaks. On entering the room, the jet lag finally slapped us in the face, and we woke up 14 hours later.

... Her Majesty's Secret Service" in which James Bond escapes from the restaurant in an elaborate alpine ski-chase scene before the opening credits roll to some typical Bond scene where he is romancing away with some scantily clad Russian/Scandinavian double-agents at some uber-exclusive tropical hideaway before Moneypenny or Q interrupt his erotic escapades with another mission. Well, our aim was not to recreate this scenario, at least not that day ...

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