Ginabelle 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 ...

... 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>

... out the signs and found that none of pointed to the place we were trying to get to, so we must have been going the wrong way. Very disappointing! But on the bright side (isn&#8217;t there always one?!) we had a gorgeous view from up there and the Matterhorn was peeking through the clouds at just the right time. It was the perfect moment to take a breather and some good piccies before our trek back down!<br><br>The trek down took about 20 minutes, it wasn&#8217;t as ...

... 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 ...

... Zermatt is a small quintessential Swiss village sitting in a valley in the alps. Oh, and it is where the Matterhorn is. It is a very touristy town, filled with beautiful hotels and elegant outfitter shops. But it does not feel touristy, because everyone there is to ski, hike, or bike. Zermatt has year-round skiing, but it's skiing only for the best of skiers, a category I will never fall into. After dropping our stuff off at the youth hostel, we took a tram up ...

... 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>

... managed to score the nicer of the 2, but were sharing our room with 13 people! From what I heard about the other hostel, we definitely lucked out! We had dinner, drinks, and went to a "club," but were in bed by midnight so we could be up early to ski. At about 2:30am, the rest of the people staying in our hostel stumbled in. Clearly, they were not quiet about it. However, they were drunk, they were funny, and they ...

... above us? A few minutes and a quick question later we find out that we're not even close. At 2,583 ft. and on top of the Schwarzee tram we quickly descended down to the base of the mountain and decided to ride the "lower portion" of the mountain. The Matterhorn will just have to wait. Here's a map of the mountain http://www.ski-zermatt.com/features/zer matt-skimap.html

May 4 - The Matterhorn Well rested, Gerald and I were ready to see some sights. With so many to choose from, we finally decided to head to the Matterhorn, Switzerland's famous peak. With little help from the tourist information center, we headed off. We remembered that there was a highway somewhat parallel to the winding route that we followed along the lake on Sunday. Mistakenly, I thought that it was a big, fast auto route. Nope. It also went through a ...

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>