Day 34 Wake to another beautiful day, sun shining and hardly a cloud in the sky - jealous yet? Chris has a morning hair appointment so I pack bags and the car and get organized. Chris gets back all shorn and much happier with her Italian hair cut. Not a lot of chatter as the hairdresser has no English. Even though she took the Italian phrase book, it was of no real use. They communicated by sign language and the hair cut turned out as requested. We say farewell to our host and one of the English speaking receptionists who had given us some really good advice on the tourist things, etc. Photos of the hotel, with our latest friend and we decide to go the other way to have a look ath thentinynvillage up the ... read more

Day 32 This place has a nice feel to it so we decide after breakfast to stay another night, have a lazy day today and do the Cinque Terre tomorrow (with some helpful advice from the hotel staff). Chris has decided she wants a haircut, we need to do the washing again and just laze the day. Find the hairdresser but shut for lunch from 1200 to 1530 (nice lunch breaks here - everything shuts up). Go to the laundromat and get the drill from the lady who then packs up for lunch as well. Walk town and finalist the washing. Lucky we didnt want to do the boat trip to Cinque Terre today, too rough!!! Take thE washing back to the hotel then back down the hill to do the shops and sights. Big fortress ... read more

Day 30 Off towards Venice after planning our next few weeks traveling. We had decided to get near to Venice today and do a full day tomorrow. How plans can change!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We drive and all of a sudden we are on the canal bridge into Venice. Time is about 1245 so guess what, we are doing Venice today as well as tomorrow. No drama, that is what self drive holidays do to you.... We park the car or Tronchetta, a purpose built island that has a multi level car park and ferry terminal. Very easy to find (thanks Stella) and we are all of a sudden into the Venetian area. Work out that the public transport system of ferries seems a good option so buy a 24 hour ticket - again like the hop on/off bus ... read more

Day 28 Have breakfast and again sit next to our new Irish friends. They are heading off on the ferry to one of the towns on the lake. We have washing to do (yes, even on holidays) so we hated off to do justice to the laundromat in the next town. Find it (nice new establishment with sub titles in English on how to use the machines - very welcome addition). Washing done while it poured rain. Decided to visit Bellagio by ferry (town on the lake that is supposedly vey nice). Go to the information office to get any other bits of advice and ask the girl at the counter. She straight away picks us as Aussies. Turns out she spent 2 years in Oz a while ago and was pining for that time again ... read more

Day 26 OMG Jungfraujoch - at last. What a day of superlatives. Get up early'ish and have breakfast at the B&B. Irene offers us some coupons for the Jungfraujoch trip that will get us extremely cheap fares as long as we split the difference with her. Good deal so off we go..... Tickets issued at almost half price and we get on the train (after buying some cheap gloves). On our way and alreadynthensigtsbarebcoming thick and fast. By the time we get to our first change of trains I have lots of shots (might be a long trip). Get on the next train and immediately start to climb very steeply. Snow covered mountains, waterfalls, valleys, too many sights to cover so decide to cut back on photos and just look. After about an hour we get ... read more