Hotel Monopol Metropol Andermatt

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Piekobello is hij nu maar het heeft wel wat uren gekost.. Maar had het er graag voor over!
Lester was tijdens mij schoonmaak woede aan het houthakken!! en heeft gezorgd dat er weer een goede voorraad te verstoken is komende wintertijden!!

Via een tussenstop in Frankfurt terug naar huis waar Job en Elana (de katten) ons met luid miauw onthaalden.

Annemarth

Destination 406

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The route across Switzerland is shown at the seperate blog "Switzerland Crossing kohler's Choice" for more exactly details of the route.

After crossing the border to Switzerland in the french part, I faced the big moment. Not only one dream was about to become true, even three dreams seemed to become true!

1.: The scene I was imagine since years of the return to ...

... sunny. Of course. This recent trip was sportier than usual but I am glad to have done it. Upon reflection I recall last years autumn trips. First London and then Majorca. Glamorous much? Well no not really. The hotel we stayed in in London was disgusting (thanks to the school...) and chilly. Majorca was climbing and little bit of shopping at Carolina Herrera.

This year however I'm stuck at home. I ...

... but still nice. We checked into a very budget hotel... you know the ones, a bathroom across the hallway, the squeakiest floors and beds and unfortunately the same place that the contiki people come..hmm great. It started snowing that night which was nice but not enough to land. The snow line was about 1600m and we were at 1000m so it still wasn't too far away. That night the contiki bus arrived. I made sure I went to sleep ...

... weekend. This was actually our 11th and final country. We would be staying for 2 days. Then back to Germany, where I catch my flight home to NY the next morning.

I was super excited when Bart surprised us with Quads. He had mapped out a ride that took us a half hr north. From there we ate a wonderful Polish breakfast ( Bart's Idea) and kept on til we came to these waterfalls. Now the name ...

... around with all our luggage we some how managed to arrive in Zurich, to be honest I really cant remember how we got to Switzerland, but it was a very long day. everyone else managed to arrive safely, Lucy, Trin and Brigitte even got to their station 2 hours early... they are just superstars! The lovely Lizbeth ended up driving Mum, Cilla and I to Lotty ...

... of the clouds and the lakes around us also disappeared into the clouds. We then parked the car and traversed a pedestrian rope bridge spanning a deep gorge (scary). Of all things, the bridge led us to the worlds steepest railway. Although only 1 km long, this railway built by the local energy company averages a 43% grade over the 1km climb!!! The rest of the day was spent making our way back to Lucerne from this incredible part of Switzerland.

... the ski resort of Les Mosses, where my church holds a weekend ski trip each winter, and the postcard-perfect village of Rougemont, with its wooden chalets and flowerboxes and picturesque church and cemetery. From there the road crossed the imaginary border between the French and German speaking parts of the country and dropped down into a densely vegetated narrow gorge, running alongside a long creek which is itself crossed by numerous covered wooden bridges, before the road ...

... Ever!!!! If the hotel at the top had been open I would have stayed to soak up the finest view (even better than the previous day from the top of Jungfrau). Unfortunately it wasn't so we continued on to Andermatt and found another fabulous place the Bergidyll hotel (with free internet). We explored the town a little before enjoying a fine meal of "pancake soup" and chicken salad - topped off with the gratis swig of limoncello - a highly alcoholic liqueur made from lemons.

hello. i should be off to nice sometime tomorrow so i,ll say goodbye from switzerland! it is finally nice here this evening as it has been reainy and cool for 3 days. i forgot to add that on thursady the bar here had live music..a guy and a guitar...he was great, old and new stuff...so that was fun. met some danish gils who turned out to be my roomates. friday was movie and boring...saturday i took train to lauterbrunnen and hiked the valley to stechelberg then cable ...