We found out that you can borrow bikes from the city and use them for free during the day. Interesting......Why not?...so we did. We got our bikes, helmets and locks, all free of charge and set off to go "explore". "We" wanted to go along the lake and see the sites and views and maybe run into a vinyard or two. Sure, sounds like a god idea, why not, so we set off to find the lake and follow it east. luckily it was a beautiful sunny day, so no ...

Last night at 11 pm after about an hour of searching on the internet for somewhere to go hiking and after Aline had fallen asleep mid search, I decided that we were going to take a chance and head to an area called Sierre. We didn't know much about the area but I was sure we would figure something out. The internet showed some hiking so we couldn't go wrong. We got up early and were on the train from Geneva at 7:30 on our way to sierra. (2.5 hr train ride) This t...

Aline and I set out at 7:45 this morning to do some hiking in the swiss mountains. The destination was set for Jaun. We obviously missed the first train in a panic but all was not lost, we got on the next train and then were off for our 2.5 hrs travel to the mountains. The trains leaving Lausanne are insane, they ride right along the Lac Leman with the mountains over looking. All along the mountain side, it is filled with vinyards and their grape lots. The trip w...

So I arrived in Paris monday morning at 8:15am after an always eventful standby experience. I was trying for two flights, bolth leaving at 8pm from montreal. Paris and Frankfurt. The Paris flight was over sold by 20 seats and there was 10 other standby passengers trying to get on with a higher priority than me. So, I booked for the Frankfurt and it looked like I had a good chance...."come back at 7pm and wait to see if your name gets called". So I came ...

SO here is perhaps the first entry before Michael arrives to Switzerland. It's been 3 weeks that I have been in Switzerland, anxiously waiting for Michael to arrive. Questions of uncertaintey arise: Will he show? When? And now BA-day has arrived (Beginning Adventure day): he shall try to catch his first stand-by plane today! So if we're lucky, he will get on a plane today and by tomorrow morning he will be in Euope somewhere either in France or in Germany. Whi...