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Chffing down
... trip round Migros to stock our sad looking fridge. 30CHF doesn't fill even one bag despite buying own brand. It will be a pasta-fuelled season.. . again. Phone topup purchased so shouldn't have desperate run out for a while.
Silly tokens for washing machine purchased and I just about figured the machine out. 3 sets of instructions-in French,German and Italian. I have smattering of each ...
Journey to Interlaken
... group, and then the 4:06 train back from Interlaken to Lucerne. Unfortunately, it was too dark to see much scenery. On the upside, though, we have massive seats on our last first class train! Lisa, Renee and I got some groceries from the “Coop” (pronounced like a coop, not co-op) and then headed back to Renees where Lisa and I made tortellini and salad for dinner. We had a relaxing dinner, followed by some red wine and marshmallow ...
Day 15 - Down the Jungfrau
... 5 miles downhill in 4 hours. We're not done, we realize. There's are almost 2 more hours of walking to go, yes, but none of it downhill. It's all flat walking the 4.4 miles from here to Lauterbrunnen. Cake.
Directly across from us we can now see where the hang gliders come in for a landing. Looking way up we can see them spinning. They come down and land in a small gravel lot across the road. Far off on our side of the cliff we can see the waterfall that ...
Leg One Switzerland
... put on an incredible show, flying through the mountain passes, sometimes below where you are viewing. It is always a highlight of my visit to the race each winter. Precisely at 1:20 literally out of the blue, they arrived scarring the **** out of me, but I had my camera ready and for the next half hour, a tremendous show was had by all. After the show I started to head down to Wengen, the headquarters for the race. Today was a downhill/slalom combination event, and was ...
The Return of Parental Guidance
... sunshine! A couple of tunnels through the mountains and we're now in Turin Italy where it is 25C and blue skies.
Today we're heading for the coast near Genoa or Portofino and will be doing a bit of replanning of the next couple of weeks of the trip. There is the chance that we may not get to Austria in time to do the Sound of Music tour. Mike can barely hold back the tears. Although they may be happy tears.
The hills are alive...
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