Hotel Eden Crans Crans-Montana

... another according to the train website the day before, but apparently not everything you see online is true. I had to make a transfer, but luckily, it turned out well. The ride into Brescia was stressful, the ticket man (I don't know his official title) was coming around to check our tickets but the man in the seat next to me didn't have his. A little argument commenced, then some all out shouting, and fingers being pointed and scary looks in angry eyes. I was a ...

... 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>

... Even though the Italy tour hadn&#8217;t been as boozy as the first tour, it was still a busy time with a lot of early starts so we needed a bit of R&amp;R.<br><br>We quickly discovered that Switzerland is very expensive! Most meals were about the equivalent of $40 Australian minimum! We found one restaurant that was a bit cheaper, but we left when I realized I was about to pay $34 Australian for a chicken salad!<br><br>So, we did what I never thought we would do ...

... So I was keeping an eye open for a policeman, and spotted a whole police station( or should I say Carabinieri)!! There must be one in there, we thought. And it's definitely worth stopping. We got a place to park (probably not very legal, but we were following the Italian rules of the road by now), grabbed our Landy Rally T shirts, and went on the hunt for points. It lookead bit locked up, but as we poked around the gate, a couple of people came ...

We woke "late" (8am) and were the last to leave our bunk. Skipping breakfast, we began our 5 hour journey back to Zermatt. We chose a route that would give us a different view of the valley, but involved 1800m of decent. We paid for it for the next few days. We arrived at our apartment and ...

... on the snow with a lovely view from Mont Blanc on one side and the Italian plains on the other. In between there were dozens of skiers and snowboarders enjoying some summer runs. After our snow hike, we took a Tram down to do a 10K hike to Hornlihut, starting at 2500m. Tom was suitably freaked out by the ...

... Gondola, we took a Tram to the top. Each stage of our journey had its own playground! The zipline at 2600 took the cake for the most over-the-top experience. Tom took Tyler home for his nap and returned 1/3rd of ...

Sue and Tom decided late in the afternoon to take advantage of the Tram/Gondola/Train infrastructure of Zermatt and spring for a 4 day "unlimited rides" pass. We took advantage by taking the ...

... you could take the metro to Porta Susa, all the trains stop there next. You could meet your friends and give them their ticket.) -"Si??? GRAZIE SIGNORE!!" Very succesful italian conversation, so off I ran to get on the metro. It was not until I was halfway there that I realized that My purse was on the train, and I had absolutely NO money to buy a &euro;1 metro ticket. MANNAGGIA! So, after an unsuccessful attempt at begging for money (FYI, don't all of a ...

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