Blogs from South-West, Switzerland, Europe - page 118

I got up this morning around 7am. I have neglected to do laundry until now (except a few pairS of socks I washed my dancing on in the bath tub w/ shampoo as I showered in Lyon), so I took it all down to the laundry room, went up took a shower, ate breakfast, and it just finished the wash, so I have another hour and a half before I can pack up to change rooms and leave for the day. The guy who runs the hostel recommended a hike just across the lake which I'm looking forward to, should take about 4 hours plus getting there and back. I had breakfast with a British girl who was coming to the end of a month long trip around France and Spain. She was nice, but a ... read more

That was todays matra from hiking. Wasnt i supposed to be hanging off a glacier? yes, but due to circumstances beyond my control, i will have to wait until tomorow. After that i walked to the train station one past interlaken to take the train up to Lennerbrennan, the hub for mountian expolring, just to find that it "wasnt running". It wasnt running because it is a single track just past that point, and the down hill driver ran a red signal, and slowed down, but the other driver, could slow down in time and they crashed (i found all this out later from a guy who was on the downhill train). This is creadibly uncommon. In this whole waiting and trying to figure out what to do, i met two other Americans, from Jersy city, ... read more

Got to Geneva today. its too hot to hike for now, it was over 34 C today. thats not normal here, at all. I spent the day checking out the festival and trying to avoid the heat. The festival is pretty cool. more later ... read more

As it turned out, we never made it to Switzerland on the day we planned. A baggage handler's strike left us stranded in Santorini (I can hear you all sighing with pity). I added a postscript to the last blog entry if you are wondering how on earth we managed to console ourselves with the devastating news. Anyway, two days later we found ourselves in Interlaken, the alpine playground of the Swiss. From there, we took an overnight train to Venice, then another overnight train to Nice, France, then a few trains along the cote d'zure and into Avignon, a bus to Arle then drove like a bat out of hell to Belves in the Dordogne where we collapsed at the house of our friend Nellie. Whhoooo. Finally we have both access to the internet and ... read more

My sister Sue, my nephew Brendan and niece Alyssa, and her mother-in-law Vovo came for a visit in the Spring following our move to Brussels. After a few days with us visiting sights in Brussels, we decided to drive through France to Switzerland and back through Germany and Luxembourg. We took my youngest sister Carol as far as Paris. Linda decided to stay home, as there wasn’t room in the car. Upon our return from Switzerland, Linda had some great news for us. After digesting the news we visited Brugges, Belgium, and Keukenhof, Marken and Volendam, the Open Air Museum and Madurodam in Holland. Linda joined us for this later portion of our vacation. 16 May 1985 Thursday. Carol joined us for the drive to Paris where we dropped her off with friends. She joined us ... read more