Travel Day, getting into the hang of it. Up early, on the bus for the longest drive we have for the trip - 700km's. Not much to say other than nice country side and good tunes on the MP3 player. Got some Swiss francs once over the boarder, will be bank fees but never mind. Switzerland is beautiful and the Conferation of Helvetica in their mind - Switzerland is what foreigners call it. Beautiful place, tour guides gave us guided tour by bus around Interlaken once ...

Free day, tried to sleep in. Went to get Debbie some conditioner early, hard to find when you can't read signs. Got onto the metro after getting lost, language barrier had me buy a two day pass instead of two one day passes. Got the hang of it pretty quickly though. The poverty is pretty bad and got hassled a few times, Debbie pretended to be Russian with a few "NYET" barked at anyone who came close, some asked for money directly, others dropped a ring ...

Early start today, we both woke at 6am. Got up, showered and packed and headed to St Pancras station to meet with the Kumuka tour group and board the Eurostar to Paris. 22 people on the tour, Aussies and Kiwis we have met so far. Lovely countryside, you don't even know you are under the English channel. We were met in Paris Nord station by our tour guide Susan and Kevin the driver (husband and wife), who took us via coach to the Novotel hotel, after dropping ...