Another lot of heavy rain overnight. We know its hot and sunny back in auld blighty (grrrr!). We have managed to make things waterproof enough though. As the forecast was iffy and the legs were stiff, we had day off walking and drove the hour to Lucerne. Old town famous for its two covered bridges. Today's cover picture is the view while we had our picnic lunch. Walked through cobbled streets and gawping at the price of things in the fashionable shops. Took ...

An early start as Richard heard an intruder open our camper van door at 5.30 am, so although he grabbed an empty ruck sac no damage done. We got up early and caught the train up the mountain towards the Jungfrau, the clouds were clearing a little by the time we got off half way up the mountain. We walked to Kleine Sheidig with many others then had coffee as the north face of the Eiger emerged in front of us. We decided on the longer walk down to Wengen, it was...

I could have put any number of amazing photos for today's blog. Even with cloud the scenery was fantastic. After lazy start relishing the space we now have. No offence boys. We set off into the village of Lauterbrunnen and caught the cable car to Grutshcalp (just in case you're getting your maps out!). This gets you up from the village so you walk on the 'shelf' that runs high along the side of the valley. Cows with bells, alpine flowers,little wooden chalets...

Our first attempt at an early start, we were up and away at 8.00 with a confident plan to get to Kandersteg by lunchtime. All went well for the first 40 odd minutes when we then speeded past a small sign that must have said 'Austria' and straight into a motorway tunnel. Now we we had been a bit uncertain but thought we would check if we needed some type of motorway ticket as we entered Austria (we knew we needed a Swiss toll pass but we knew we could buy them at ...