Woke up this morning and made a nice breakfast and watched a couple episodes of "Ray Donovan" on Netflix. I don't know if we get the show in Canada but it is quite entertaining. Anyway, my hope of going paragliding was dashed with no openings so I decided to go for a mountain hike up behind our villas. Backpack on, water bottle filled and binoculars in hand, off I go. Up a beautiful trail which overlooks Zermatt even more. I keep climbing and come across a...

Ah switzerland home of those handy little multi tools, Swiss cuckoo clocks and soaring mountain peaks. Woke up and finally can have real north American coffee with one cream and 1/2 sugar, albeit instant coffee. Stepped out on the deck and it was a brisk 1 degree Celsius but sunny . Our villa is a studio apartment with a king bed, small couch, breakfast nook with all the appliances and a beautiful rain shower equipped water closet.....Gone euro with that one ...

Travel day with periwinkle and I splitting Riogimorre like a banana splits at Dairy Queen .. we gone with our train departing at 7:20am for la spezia, then catch a train to Milan, and then to Brig, Switzerland. There, we need to catch a local train which weaves in and around mountain ranches before arriving at Zermatt. We befriended our "ticket please " lady who became our personal guide pointing out glaciers, swinging bridges, mountain ranges and landslide...