Geo: 46.6855, 7.8559We got up early on Thursday and drove to Lauterbrunnen. It looks a little bit like Yosemite, with vertical granite walls on each side of a flat valley. We took a cable car up to Gimmelwald. And I do mean up, almost straight up 2500 feet up the vertical granite wall. Gimmelwald is a small hamlet at the top of the cable car. Very cute. We walked around the hamlet for a while and then headed to the cable car for the second leg to Murren. This is a larger village right on the edge of the cliff. We walked around there and then took a funicular to Allmendhubel about 1300 feet higher up. What views!! Snow-capped peaks everywhere, small villages in the valley, absolutely gorgeous! We stopped at a waterfall that has worn ... read more

Geo: 47.0457, 8.30824We left Sunday morning and headed out to Luzern. It is only about 50 miles from Zurich. We got here in about an hour. We had a last second e-mail from a place we had hoped to get a room and they had one. We drove there and arrived about 11:30AM. We went in to tell them that we would come by later to check in, but the room was ready. We took in our luggage and found the place to be very quaint. It is more like a B&B than a hotel. We walked to downtown, crossed the old bridges, and looked for a laundry that the person at the B&B told us about. Since it was Sunday, it was closed, but it was not a coin op laundry. We have just enough ... read more

Geo: 47.1411, 9.52148 Yesterday we got up and had breakfast and headed for the bus. We took the bus up to Malbun, and then the ski lift up to the top of he mountain. The weather was partly cloudy and cool. We looked around and took some pics and then Stacy rode the lift down and I hiked down the trail to the lift. It was about a mile and a half, all downhill. Boy, my legs were burning by then. I guess I need some more time on my elliptical. We got up this morning, jazzed that our bartender the night before gave us directions to a laundrymat. We drove over to Buschs and after several trys we found a laundry for an apartment, but it was locked. We were dissappointed, but knew that we ... read more

Geo: 46.4945, 9.90103We left Lake Lugano on Saturday and drove to Lake Como, which is back in Italy. We came to the town of Mennagio and stopped and looked around and had lunch. George Clooney wasn,t home at his Italian villa, so we headed north and stopped in the town of Gravedona. We were hoping for a laundry to be there, but it was not so. Maybe at the next stop. We found a TI and asked about rooms, but they were not very helpful, so we went out on our own and found a nice place for 1 night. It was called the Hotel Laura. We also had dinner in their restaurant. It was very good. Got to love that Italian food. This morning, we left to go to St. Moritz area. It is high ... read more

Geo: 46.0036, 8.9534Well, here we are in Lugano. We arrived today after an hour drive in the pouring rain. Right now it is pouring, with thunder and lightning. We walked around in Verbania yesterday in the rain and even with raingear and umbrellas , we still got wet. We couldn't see alot either. The clouds are very low, so we can't see the hills and towns around the lake. But, it is supposed to clear up tomorrow, and be sunny for the next 3-4 days. We hope to get some great pics when the weather clears up. Here are some more pics that we took of Mont Blanc and the Matterhorn and Zermatt that I finally found. Also a few more pics of Verbania.... read more