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Chffing down
... it together. Had I managed it 8 minutes before I would have not been given a 'time out' by the darned machine. Most of Verbier has a weird habit of turning off washing machines between 11.10 and 12.30 and 13.00 and 20.00. No other applicance, or sauna or ski lift, just the washing machines! Grrr. Anyway, had a nice cuppa with Helen (see Elfabroads Great Adventure for further tales of ...
Journey to Interlaken
Today we left with Renee for her 10:15 am class. She showed us her school very briefly. It is a modern school, built in the last three years, that doesn’t fit very well with the rest of the picturesque town. Lisa and I took the 10:55am train from Lucerne to Interlaken. We used our last Eurail pass for this trip because it makes more sense to buy the one-way ticket to Zurich tomorrow and use the Eurail for the round-trip today. The perk ...
Travel to Geneva
Today we travelled to Geneva as our flight is on Saturday and we were unsure of where the hotel was. Quite a journey and a few back and forward trips on the same train/tram/bus. Once we had found the hotel, a little trip into Geneva to get something to eat. Both of us feeling hungry and unsure what to have - we opted for McDonalds and sweets. A picture of home - Brown ...
Getting to Lauterbrunnen!
... Well, about 1.5 hours later and some really, really nasty thoughts running through my head, we emerge into one of the most picturesque places we've ever been at the "Disneyland" of campgrounds. Seriously, there is so much to do here involving glaciers, hikes, steep cable car rides, and trains to 11,500 feet I don't know where we'll begin. Well, the road is always less traveled with Joe but it's also a wild ride! Love, ...
The changing leaves color the alps orange
... for seven or eight hours walking, up and across a high ridgeline, peaking at a high rocky outcropping that required steep scrambling up a grassy slope. up there i followed large hoof prints that might have been deer or...i'm not sure what other animal, and found an old firepit left over from the summer, possibly.
this was a peaceful day. my feet ...