What can I say? - we love Switzerland! Switzerland has fantastic long distance cycle trails, and they don’t all involve climbing the alps. You don’t even need a map as all the routes are way-marked and take you to amazing places, into the forest, up by waterfalls, nature reserves, lakes with reed beds or enticing clear water, mountain views, quintessential farm chalets, crop fields, needle top spire churches and of course, cows with bells! Our average daily distance has gone significantly down, partly due to more challenging terrain and unsealed roads, partly due to there being so many nice places to stop and admire the scenery, and there really seems no need to hurry. Having crossed so easily into Switzerland, we did get a bit of a shock on the Brunig pass at 1008m between Interlaken
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