From Shell: So while we are having a pretty long holiday..... we were very focused on only visiting Italy, France and Stephen* in Europe, so that we wouldn't spread ourselves too thinly. So imagine our surprise when we spent four hours viewing the most stunning Swiss country-side yesterday (albeit at 150kph!). It all started with our combined wish to travel via train from France to Italy and resulted in our Eurail pass consultant booking us from Lyon, France to Milan, Italy by way of Geneva, Switzerland. Maybe she had something against the Mont Blanc tunnel?? Anyway, the gods of travel shone down upon us and 1) gave us a Swiss train conductor who overlooked the fact our Eurail pass doesn't cover Switzerland 2) ensured we passed through customs in Geneva undetected. It was, in fact, the
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