Hotel Lac Salin Spa & Mountain Resort Livigno

So here we are, the first time I have ever been to Italy. The first time I have seen Italian drivers in their natural environment. They are CRAZY!! They pull out in front of oncoming traffic, overtake on blind bends, overtake inside tunnels with DOUBLE WHITE LINES!!!




It was just unbelievable. In fact, when I was ...

... want to arrive at 11, and have to pitch up in the dark, so we decided to drive until about 7 - 8 p.m., and find somewhere to stay, then catch the group up at Val D'Isere the following day. As we didn't have a roadbook for the route, we just had to figure it out. This wasn't too difficult with the maps and GPS, so we set off to see how far we could get that evening.

St Moritz-Bad in Switzerland was amazing, hard to capture on picture/video but did our best! One of my favourite spots so far.

Travelled back to Czech via Germany and Austria. Oh and into Italy for a day at some stage. I then headed to Glasgow to catch up with friends and Jarrad stayed in Karlovy Vary to train for his powerman in Austria this weekend.

Anyway will let the pics do the talking!

Hope all is good with you all
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I climbed a mountain in the Swiss Alps. I whitewater rafted on the Rhine river. It was all amazing. All I could keep saying was "I cant believe Im here. I cant believe Im doing this."

There was so much to do in the last 2 days, and Im physically exhausted. Maybe tonight I can finally sleep, because Ive been habving some trouble with that.

More later.

So I'm staying in the alps in the mountains! The weather is comfortable, the beds...not so much. Had an insanely long "day" yesterday. The flight from NY was delayed and very long. I had trouble sleeping due to the crampyness of the seats and the bohemouth behind me who couldn't stop banging into my seat. Lovely times.We landed in Zurich at 3AM NY time, but it was 9AM here ...

The ski resort of Arosa lies at the head of its own little, but very steep gorged valley a very short distance from Chur. The river which cuts the gorge passes the west side of the old city and recent flood prevention was needed to prevent it entering the streets of Chur!
The little train which does a frequent journey up the gorge leaves the southern most section of Chur Station and travels along the streets of west Chur, sometimes in conflict with ...

... Boxing Day Racing etc.. During late June it proved somewhat damp for us! It rained on us, but then it seems to rain in the early evening in the mountains!
The return route following the Engadine river as pleasant an experience as the rest of the day trip to Poschiavo.

Poschiavo, our destination for the day trip over the Albula Pass was a very nice, tidy town with a good choice of eating places and proximity to some wonderful scenery. A good alternative to the main Swiss resorts. It's also very handy to the Italian lakes Como, Maggiore and Lugano and the train trips of the Simplon entry to Switzerland.
On the day that we arrived ...

8/31/99 Tuesday

Davos to St. MoritzWe woke up this morning to a beautiful, clear, cool morning. We didn't have any large clouds hovering over the mountains like we have had. (NOTE: Today we are off to the winter playground of the rich and famous…St. Moritz, via the Glacier Express. I am really looking forward to this trip.) We have been on the road for about 1/2 hour and the view is "to die for". We are not taking the motorway, instead the mountain roads that wind through ...

... she accompanied me...). (BevNote: I’m no fool, I know my limits. As a matter of fact, while Paul went on, I sat and reveled in the view from where I was sitting. There were several people riding the updrafts with their 'chutes and it was every enjoyable watching them. A nun came up the mountain as I was watching them …she HAD to be around 90…and SHE didn’t have to stop and rest, just put one foot in front of the other and marched up the mountain… ...