Saturday, 10 July 2010 A visit to the botanical garden is on the program today but first a leisurely breakfast and then a very scenic trainride into the mountains with Interlaken and Thuner See in the background. The trip up was made quite hilarious by some Swiss people who were really enjoying their first outing […]
Friday, 9 July 2010 We consulted the boss at camp and she confirmed it would be a good day to visit Jungfraujoch, also sometimes called the top of Europe as at 3453m is the highest railway station in Europe. The train ride is an experience in itself as you wind your way up the mountain
Thursday, 8 July 2010 Woke up to this amazing sight of the Eiger Nordwand, a place I have heard and read about so much and now could almost touch it. Our camping had given us a card for free use of all the buses in Interlaken which proved to be very convenient to get us
Wednesday, 7 July 2010 Getting quite pro at taking these trams. Back to station and off to Interlaken, first through fairly uninteresting scenery and, just when it started to get interesting, a Swiss lady next to us started chatting to us in Dutch. Turned out she had been married to a Hollander for 40 years
Tuesday, 06 July 2010 Breakfast in the communal kitchen was dominated by our Ukranian friend telling us about his home country and his work at the University of Edinburough with international law, quite a clever man. Then off to the old city centre by tram to do most of the tourist walks, quite well signposted
Monday 5 July 2010 Today the start of our Switzerland adventure. Arcene kindly took us to the boat in Breskens at some ungodly hour making remarks about how crazy we were to carry those heavy packs on our backs. On arrival in Vlissingen it is quite a sprint to get to the train, I think
Sunday, July 4, 2010 I have not blogged for a while as we have spent the last few weeks with family and have mainly rested and done short trips in the surrounding area. Tomorrow we leave for two weeks Switzerland, car, boat, train, plane, tram to Basel where we will spend the night and then
Wednesday, June 23, 2010 Today we saddled our ‘horses’ again and did a nice, long circuit by bicycle. We had set out the route last night, a little bit by instinct as we don’t know the area very well but it worked out tremendously. The first bit was a little bit busy but then we
Tuesday, June 22, 2010 Lidy suggested a short walk on the ravel near their home, I suspect that ravel is a conjugation of randonnee and velo or walking and cycling. In Europe and especially Holland and Belgium they conserve the paths along disused trainlines, canals, rivers etc. for recreation purposes and here we explored the
Monday, 21 June 2010 Lidy, my eldest sister, lives nearby but not so nearby that it is easy to get there and back by bicycle so she kindly offered to fetch us and she also insisted we spend the night. We first had a look at their old farm, quite a bit has changed since