Today was the day we left Interlaken and took the scenic train to Montreux, which is in the west of Switzerland, in the French speaking area, at Lake Geneva. It started not too well with me in floods of tears and CC running barefoot thru town, now with shocking blood blisters on his feet. (Once […]
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Day 17: Schilthorn – Up to nearly 3km!
Today was the day we were originally supposed to do the Jungfrau. I got inspired by it by seeing a picture from that region on one of my fb friends’ wall, and it seemed a good starting point for looking into pretty scenic trains in Switzerland. The Jungfrau is called the “top of Europe”, the […]
Day 12: CINQUE TERRE!
Today was one of the days I’d been most waiting for – Cinque Terre – five little villages on the coast of Italy, between Genova and Pisa, and the national park around them. There is a train linking them, but what many people do is walk it. 11km and 5h, which doesn’t seem too bad. […]
Day 10: A Nice day in Nice FEAT. MONACO
Even though muffins/croissants/pain au chocolats are a tasty breakfast, they’re not exactly filling, but it’s difficult to find anything else in France if you eat out. But, not in Nice! During our morning walk we discovered numerous cafés that did ‘English breakfasts’, which meant: omelettes. So indulged in a relatively scrumptious ‘English breakfast’ in the […]
Day 8: Sète
Got up early to get the 8.20 train out of Toulouse (this time with our backpacks!) as well as recheck the Japanese Garden we had looked around the first evening (I had been very hungry and grumpy and CC hadn’t enjoyed it enough and wanted to go back). Very pretty and we got some hideously […]