Today started with an early breakfast and a packed lunch at 7am. The few of us that had paid the extra then headed down to the skydiving place down the road. I was looking really forward to this part of the trip. A chance to jump out of a helicopter for a 45 second free fall before gliding to the bottom over the Swiss Alps! Unfortunately, the weather was too bad to go which was really unlucky. We waited around for it to clear before deciding to head up the mount...

Today was a long travel day. We headed through France and across the border into Switzerland. We stopped for a picnic lunch and then kept heading in to the Alps where we stayed in a small town called Lauterbrunnen. I have never seen anything so beautiful in my entire life. This place is incredible. The mountains and cliffs are humongous and the countryside is green. Houses here are wooden structures with cute shutters on the windows and window boxes. They almos...