On the journey through Switzerland on to Italy there was a tunnel through a mountain. It was just not any tunnel. Right before entering we noticed traffic got very heavy, to the point of stand still. There were traffic light positioned horozontally in the air above the two lanes of traffic. Ever so slowly they let traffic one by one merge together to form one lane. For a reason, the gradual procession of traffic limited accidents in the tunnel, because once it ...

Switzerland is on the border in so many ways, they have their own complicated currency and a wide range of languages. The currency has beautifully coloured notes and many silver coins. The coins are where it gets complicated; CHF5, CHF2, CHF1, then cents: 20, 10, and 1/2. So... 1/5 of a cent? No half a franc. Way to be complicated. In Switzerland the three official languages are French, German and Swiss. In Lauterbrunnen, a tourist town, they speak German an...