Hotel du Lac Crans-Montana

... control recently has broken down, this was the perfect sign to follow, where I planed to cross the border to Switzerland.<br><br>Just arrived in late afternoon to Aosta, I was not only already entered to the italian part of the alps but also to the point of good bye. Here I decided not to spend another night in Italy and crossed the border to my homecountry Switzerland a hour later at Calle del Gran San Bernardo. <br><br>BIENVENUE EN SUISSE - WELCOME TO SWITZERLAND

... the casualties of the Matterhorn.<br>Zermatt itself is tiny, with only electric taxis. It is much colder than Lauterbrunnen even though it's on the border of Italy.<br>Switzerland is strange. It has no language of its own. In Bern, Lauterbrunnen and Zermatt they speak German but in Montreux they speak French, even the train announcements change languages. It gets confusing, so I just stick to greeting people in English most of the time. When I had arrived here I was fuming a bit because I ...

... room, toilets and showers to myself. I rarely saw anyone and reception was really nice. I then headed to Cully to try the famous Lavaux walk but caught a train that didn't make all the stops so I ended up at Lausanne again. I decided to take a bit of a walk, making my way through Pully and then to Letvy where I caught the train to Cully. The view was great but the vineyards that I stumbled across in Letvey were better because there was noone around and you could really smell the wine.<br>

So my theory of.."you just turn on the gas stove and the van gets warm"...um no Emma. Not when its freezing - literally - outside.<br>I managed to get a waterproof jacket our first night which was a blessing!!! <br>Woke up Tuesday at 6.30am! It was still dark but the skies had finally cleared up and as I ran out in the cold to the toilet blocks I was rewarded by a sky full of stars.. so pretty! It was SO cold tho! I had all my clothes on! If I hadnt ...

... be a rest. Then I went up the opposite side of the valley to get a good overview of the marathon hike from the first day, see picture included. The views on this side were possibly even more spectacular than on the first day. I was elated.<br><br>On my last day I walked around Interlaken for a bit, only convincing myself that I made the right choice by not staying there.<br><br>Being from western ...

... there was silver water bowl at the owner&#8217;s feet. Could you just see us taking Daisy and Crickett into a restaurant for dinner with us?<br><br>One last observation to share (from Dad) is that today is the second time I have seen someone with UNC TarHeel clothing. The kid I saw today was from Switzerland or Germany. The TarHeels have an impressive global fan base. I haven&#8217;t seen a Duke item, that&#8217;s for sure!

... this. We lost count of the number of waterfalls we saw and eventually descended into the far end of the Lauterbrunnen valley at the town of Stechelberg. The last 6.4km was along the flat floor of the Valley back to Lauterbrunnen and meandered through cow paddocks, alongside a small alpine river the whole way. One of the coolest things about being in Switzerland is the cows. For some reason the Swiss put these huge cow bells around the necks of their cows, and ...

Try # 5 on this entry. 3 times yesterday and 2nd today. I got up around 6:30 this morning to check out weather. Joseph and I talked about going to top of Jungfrau or going to Lucerne. When i woke up the valley was covered in low lying clouds/fog and the peaks we couldn't see in the area on Sunday were now visible. I walked the 2 min to the station where they have video of the highest peaks to check out what was up. There was some visibility ...

... ice which was novel, had great fun being ice skaters he he. Luckily by the time we were out the mist had cleared and it was a stunning blue sky day. Hooray!!! We were completely stoked!!! We went for a 45 minute walk along the glacier the Monchsjoch hut, just infront of Monch (monk) mountain, another of the tallest mountains. Had a lovely hot chocolate and some gruyere cheese sandwhiches (tres swiss ha ha) It ...

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