Switzerland must have heard our blog comments and put on another beautiful day for us. The tent was dry when we packed up and all the washing too! Yay. This morning we walked along the lake front into Lucerne to 'see the sights' and came across a number of super-sized swans. Our tourist map was kind enough to have camera icons indicating the good photo spots. The first one was not difficult to find with the sea of camera toting tourists crowded in the area tak...

After the disastrous day yesterday, today started a lot brighter. It rained heavily overnight but eventually the sun came out and we had a beautiful warm day. Lauterbrunnen seemed a lot prettier and all in all our dispositions were a lot better too. Yesterday in a small patch of clear weather we went for a walk which took you behind a waterfall. We looked super stylish in our poncho's as you'll see in the photos! Last night while writing blogs we saw that the ...

Disclaimer: This blog entry is a collection of our frustrations over the last few days which we feel the need to get off our chests. We won't hold it against you if you skip on to the happier blog entries which follow. Reason 1a: The roads. After crossing the German border we were met by a not entirely friendly border control man. We were about to pay him 14 Euro as a 6 month pass to use the Swiss highways until he said that it was 40 Euro! Umm, no thanks. The...