La Diligence Crans-Montana

Destination 405<br><br>km197'555<br><br>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.<br>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.<br><br><br>

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 ...

... deep snow up there for a while till my feet started getting cold. Kathleen hadnt come up but I was so glad I did! Also this place is where they filmed one of the James Bond films.. his majestys service. Cool! After this I made my way down the 3 gondolas to at the bottom. Then took a bus to a place called Trümmelbach falls. Its a series of 10 waterfalls that are partly inside the mountains. Over the years they have carved out corkscrew holes ...

... there were a few people who though it was pretty funny that I went all the way to Switzerland to hike in the Alps and have never done the same in the Rockies. Looks like I have some hiking to do when I get back home. <br><br>The pictures will do a much better job of telling the story than my words.<br><br>Also, this is the first place in my entire trip where I did not meet a single Australian. Whats up?

... to the tourist information center to find some good activities for the afternoon. And get this, we ran into the same couple from Maryland that we had dinner with last Thursday night in Luzern. We both looked at each other, surprised and just laughed. To be at the same place at the same time is so interesting.<br><br>We decided to head to the Trummelbach Waterfalls (http://www.myswitzerland.com/en.cfm/ho me/summervacations ...

... two and end up staying a week or longer. the owners Walter and Petra are amazing they are so friendly and easy to get along with, they actually hang out and interact with you while you stay, they have a big kitchen here and everybody prepares their own meals, such a great time. i am sad i have to leave tomorrow morning to make my way to Munich, but oh well, another journey and experience to have. but i would have to say this place is going to be almost impossible to beat.

... the Interlaken train station. I didn't hold out much hope as they don't typically run for safety reasons when it's been raining but it had only been misting so I'd see. i called alpin raft from the east station in interlaken and they had an opening at 12:30 for 2 so we took it. they picked us up an hour later; took us to their base/shop to get started: we met our first guide rich from australia who was pretty cool and he started us thru all the basics of ...

... all wooden chalets with window boxes full of flowers and perfect rows of vegetables in the gardens - by this point, it was slightly surreal how beautiful and perfect everything was!  We decided to walk back down to Lauterbrunnen, and stopped in a tiny village called Winteregg to spend our return cable car fare on coffee and wildberry kuchen (cake) with fresh berries from the mountainsides....mmmmmmmm...... At one point ...

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