Kandahar Crans-Montana

Destination 405

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Not entirely shure, if I spend my last day in a foreign country, I head towards north. A stopover at Novi Ligure provides me finally the opportunity to send a notification to all family and friends about my remaining itinerary before return back home. The date has been fixed to the 29.
The ride up to Vercelly in the low lands was not that exciting like the sighting of the mountain of Mont Blanc in the far. Since my ...

... 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.

I decided to change hostels because I really didn't like this one. I am not fond of the international hostels. They're like hospitals, although the buffet breakfast was nice and I liked their cat. I was woken up by screaming, unruly kids. Some parents aren't parents. I was happy to change. The sun had also come out and so I snuck on the train from Montreux Tilletet to Veyvey which is only 5 minutes away. The place is much nicer and has free food and a kitchen. I actually got an entire 6 ...

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.
I managed to get a waterproof jacket our first night which was a blessing!!!
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 ...

... Bill said how elated he was with our surroundings, and I can’t disagree either. We were right up close to the three famous mountains of the region (Jungfrau, Monch, and Eiger), Europe’s highest train station, and the place where 007 movie “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service” was filmed. After gradually gaining 1000m in altitude, we found ourselves at the top of a very ...

... crossing ordeal, with passports at the ready. The border was manned. The guard mosied over and asked 'where are you going?'. I mumbled something about visiting Leichenstein and Switzerland. He waved us through without a word or a document inspection. That was it.

Switzerland does not look like a real country. It looks like a park. It looks like a contrived landscape, something a very idealistic landscape architect would design if he had not regard ...

... Cappadocia recommended, jam and cheese on bread, not too bad I must say. Now after a day camping in a car park in France I decided that I had had enough and was ready to go back to London. Dave talked me into going to Barcelona and after a day and a half of driving we arrived. We did stop at Lyon on the way, a nice enough city, and watched some cool street performers, but other than that it was driving, lets hope Barcelona will be worth it. Miles so far:

... ago. They had a smoke house for the salami they made from the cows that grazed on site which they sold in the on site deli. They sold bread made on site using wheat grown and milled on site and cheese and chocolate made from the herds of milking cows they grazed too. It was wicked. We spent the whole afternoon and still didn't get round the whole place. It was cool to do something different from just looking at ruins or a mediveial town from the ...

... cemetary.  The walk was great, but very wet when you actually got behind the falls.  In the afternoon, Mike, Marla, Kat and the two of us decided to take the cable car up to the dizzingly high alpine village of Gimmewald, and from there walked to the even higher village of Murren, with spectacular views down the valley and around the mountain peaks that surround Lauterbrunnen.  The villages were (of course) beautiful ...

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