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Published: August 14th 2011
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The tunnel to get to the waterfall I saw my first ever REAL fox this morning! Steve and I went to brush our teeth before going to bed and he took a long time so I was standing outside the boys bathroom minding my own business when out from the bushes appeared a fox! It walked the other way but I wasn't sure if I saw things right so I went and asked one of the bar workers who was sitting outside if I saw things right... And I was!
Brekkie was a nice time today (wasn't until 9am – yah big sleep ins for us). Today was a free day so Steve and I headed to the cafe that had free Internet, problem was it wasn't working!
The Swiss Alps were truly amazing, we were staying in between the Alps and the cliff faces had about 5 waterfalls. The one that was closest to the camp site had a track so you could walk about half way up the cliff and walk underneath the waterfall so we did that and that was a nice view. After this I said to Steve that I thought it would be awesome to go paragliding over the Swiss Alps even though
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Views from the sky I am freaked about heights! 3 hours later we had caught 2 rail gondolas and walked 10 minutes all going straight up and were harnessed with a professional paraglider. One of the instructors told us we were allowed to choose who we wanted to jump with so I choose to go first (found out when we were on the ground again that my professional paraglider is a world champion – I think he is 2nd in the world). As much as I am afraid of heights I think that this is the ebst experience I have ever had in my entire life! The view was stunning, the weather was gorgeous and what was meant to be a 15 minute ride ended up being a 25 minute ride because the conditions were so good! We even did some tricks where the parachute ended up being lower than us! Steve took our camera with him and got some amazing shots of the glaciers and scenery... truly magnificent!
After that amazing experience we headed back to the camping ground. It was quite cool because the boys had created their own little 'click' and the girls were up by reception bonding too. Tonights dinner
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More views from the sky was chicken cordon bleu and pasta...yum yum.
After tea the other camping ground was having a folk dancing/music type festival so we all headed over there and had a boggie and drink. That finished and as we were approaching the campsite we were greeted by our camp cook (I think he was sitting in the bushes waiting for us) and because we were not in the bar at the camp ground they closed early – we ended up at the local pub that I thought was called the 'Horney Pub'... turns out it is actually called 'Horner Pub'. Good night there then to bed again as we are leaving early tomorrow!
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