Emerson was in her element today, a buffet breakfast! With watermelon! A drizzly cold morning and a tour that doesn't start until after 10 meant she was in no hurry to finish up. Without mobile data we had to revert back to city maps posted on bus shelters, luckily it's all so well organised finding our way to the tour centre was dead easy.Getting to the tour kick-off point meant we visited one of the city biggest attractions on the way, Hauptbahnhof. Wit...

Frankly I think Gab may have forced me to overdo it at Hofbrau, we drag ourselves out of Bed, pack up and get ready to hit the road (if not other things). Great start to the day was getting trapped straight out into peak hour traffic when the GPS instructions didn't match reality. The kids have come for a joy ride with me to collect the van from storage, happily for them the scene of me trying to reconfigure a GPS, maneuver a truck through peak hour traffic a...

I've never seen fresh snow as an adult, let alone held it. This stuff begs to be thrown at other people, so soft! We had an awesome morning up on Pilatus. The cable car ride was breathtaking, a couple of points where you go up and over an embankment and watch the world drop away on the other side. Claude had told me to go to Interlaken to check out the nature, he seemed excited but I didn't get it. Wow! I could have spent a few days up there, perfect clear sunny...

Someone on this tour is blessed with some impossibe weather charming skill. Here in Lucerne it has been raining for days right up to this morning when it suddenly went away and the sun shone through. We arrived from Flroence in the early afternoon and caught a slow sunny cruise across the lake landing in Lucerne itself around 4pm. The captain was busy selling his beers throughout the cruise giving Max and Emerson a crack at the helm, Emerson tried to fishtail, bu...