Time for some relaxing

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Ah, finally out of italy, and finally finding cheap internet in austria!

GRYON, SWITZERLAND:

Lisa and I headed to Gryon after the interlaken-skydiving adventure. We stayed at the Chalet Martin, a wonderful hostel full of many people from all over the world. Gryon is a tiny village in the Swiss Alps (close to Bex), with population 1000...i know...makes pulaski look huge. And, the average age of the town's inhabitants is 60+..so a quiet village it is. We spent 5 nights here to relax.....sort of like a vacation from our vacation.

The evening we got in, we headed to the grocery store for supplies,...finally a hostel with a kitchen! Now, switzerland is outrageously expensive...but because we could cook all of our meals, we saved loads of money.

The hostel offers a wine tasting event every saturday night...cost = 10Euros....but well worth it. The man that runs the chalet....Matt, from australia....thoroughly enjoys socializing with everyone...and if you can keep him entertained with stories....he'll continue to pull out bottle after bottle of wine to keep the night going. The wine tasting consisted of 6 bottles of different wines....we drank all of those...plus an extra 8 bottles. Let's just say it was a crazy night.

We basically relaxed for all 5 days, but made our way to thermal baths (huge pools with really warm water which is cooled from natural hot springs from about 75 degrees celsius to about 35...perfect), and did an easy hike one day. Sorry this is so short, but i have sooo many blogs to catch up on!


Next up: Positano, Italy

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