Arrived in Geneva on Thursday, train ride wicked, the lake just goes on forever! We think its about 70 miles long as it took us an hour to get from Lausanne (at one end) to Geneva (the other end) and trains must go around 70mph surely?? Hostel ok, quite basic and full of schools but we had a whole room to ourselves the 1st night which was a nice change. Got on a tram when we 1st arrived to see if we could get a good look around town, but it took us to the Br...

Arrived at Interlaken about mid day, there isn't a hostel in Interlaken that is approved by YHA, so we ended up staying in one that was advetised in our guide book called Balmers. This is a typical American summer camp place when we arrived it was full of americans and we really weren't too sure at first that we were going to like it. Had a bit of lunch and went for a wander round town. The town is not very exciting as every other shop either sells watches, knive...

Arrived in Bern yesterday, had a wander around the town - shared another sausage and 1st Swiss toblerone, went down a treat! Had bit of a trek to the hostel, nowhere near as nice as Zurich but think thats going to be hard to beat! Went on free tour of parliament building after dropping off our bags, was really interesting and very pretty - fab ar5chitecture and great ceiling paintings. Met a girl from Washington in the hostel - Michelle - she was lovely and we...

Hello guys,How are you? We arrived in Zurich this morning at 10.00 after a very rough nights sllep on the train. It was something different we had both never been on a night train, was good at first until we needed to sleep. We had about 2 to 3 hrs of good sleep the rest was very broken, thanks to guards checking our passports twice, a sniffer dog and a Spanish Dude that insisted on rabbiting on at half past 6!!!!!! SO ANNOYING! They´re really hot on checkin...