Grand Hotel du Parc 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 ...

... busting for the loo it would have been so hard to get out of bed! By the way we slept in clothes and hats along with sleeping bags and blankets..brrrr....<br>So anyway, we got tickets up to a place called Mürren. To get there we took the cable car up to a stop called Grinwald. You could either get the train to Mürren or walk. It was snowy, and icy but not too bad and we had the shoes for it. Was pretty nice 40 min walk. The sun coming up over ...

... 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 ...

... it started to snow! The fields and trees around us were covered with snow, and I was wishing I had my snow board in the back. We stopped on the side of the road at one point to play in the snow and make a snow man, the locals seemed to drive past and shake their heads, but I tell you I saw a few jealous looks coming form the passengers on coaches. And that was Switzerland, short and sweet. Oh I did forget to mention that we tried a dish our friends ...

... this morning and it was bright and sunny, and oh so beautiful. Today I head out to the tourist town of Grindelwald. Then later my town is offering a free lace making class, most people didn't believe me when I said I came here to do almost nothing, just relax, so I think going to a lace making class is just the ticket. Hope everyone is well, and enjoying as fine weather as I am.

... Lauterbrunnen, we started our search.  The first stop Mike and Marla encountered a rather stroppy Swiss woman who made it very clear (through raised tones) that there was NO BREAKFAST included in the accommodation... right, so we'll go elsewhere then.  Mike and Marla ended up at a hotel on one edge of town while Nate ended up with us at the hostel that Jeff and Kat had stayed in on our last visit.  The hostel turned out to be pretty nice, but the ...

... and all of these clouds is doing nothing for my tan! Anyways, they keep telling us that summer is coming, soon (they hope!) Im attaching a bunch of photos for you to check out, these are from the last couple of weeks, hope you like it... Chat Soon CP

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... it. We did what was called the "Murren loop", starting off at the base here in Lauterbrunnen and riding a steep cog railway up the mountain, from where we caught a train to the town of Murren. Like Lauterbrunnen, it's very picturesque and full of ski chalets and whatnot. Also lots of fog. We went to take a group photo of the non-view view (total whiteout), and by the time we finished setting up everyone's cameras on mini-tripods ...