After a wonderful night's sleep we had our lovely breakfast in the hostel, packed up our room and called the taxi. The cute little electric taxi took us down to the station and we were able to watch as the Glacier Express pulled in. Unfortunately we never did see the Matterhorn -'twas covered in clouds, even though it is a beautiful sunny day today. It will probably be visible later in the morning, but that's okay, this is about the journey, not the destination! Today we are travelling on the world's slowest express train, from Zermatt to St Moritz - the Glacier Express. Our table was set with a tablecloth and glasses, and the seats are lovely. This journey was free, well, covered by our first class Swiss Rail Pass. Tom and I seem to be the only English speaking people in our carriage (which is not full). There is a mixture of Japanese, and other European people. Our journey initially retraced yesterday's journey to Visp, passing under avalanche covers, and steep hillsides with chicken-wire fences above the train line (I'm sure they must be stronger than chicken wire). Most of the way has a single rail track so we pull in to a siding to allow another train to go by. This train is also equipped with the toothed rack and pinion system of pulling the train up the steeper inclines and to help slow it down going down the hill. The journey is slower when these are engaged. There are many villages along the way in the valley, with cows, goats and sheep. The goats are rather interesting - they are black on the front half and white on the back half. Their name was something like "black neck goats" (but in German). I'm also surprised at how many vineyards there are. They are all over the parts of Switzerland we've seen so far, even on terraces. Apparently they only export 1-2% their wine, it's mostly for domestic consumption. We've been enjoying it! I had some with my lunch (which we had ordered at the time of booking, back home in Hazelbrook). We passed through the valley where Cesar Ritz (of the hotel chain) came from and is buried. During our day's journey we travelled through 91 tunnels - including three spiral tunnels, across 291 bridges and numerous viaducts, including the renown Landwasser-viadukt. Every so often a little chime would sound and through our earphones we would here snippets of information about the area we were travelling through. We arrived just in time for the 3 course dinner included in our tariff. And the St Moritz hostel? Luxury! So new, so spacious and we even have a bathroom floor mat. Score!!!