Last night was regrettably our final one here, we've never felt more at home since we left as we have here in southern Switzerland. It's clean, friendly, safe and welcoming, something that unfortunately can't be said for some of it's more famous European neighbours. It would be very easy to settle in here for a long time.... This afternoon we returned to Italy on the train bound for Rome. We had to change to a connecting train in Milano but due to a delay on the...

This morning we started our journey to the top of Jaungfroujoch, this would be a full day excursion in order to do it justice. We set out early to get the first train from Interlaken Ost station which would take us to Grindelwald, a town which at an altitude of 1034m was at the foot of the mountain climb. From here we changed trains and headed further up to Klein Scheidegg, at 2061m this is the final stop before the Jaungfroujoch summit train takes over. Whichev...

We woke this morning and eagerly opened the blinds hoping to see the snowy peaks, unfortunately a heavy fog had rolled in and we could barely even see across the street. It gave us a real feeling however that we were absolutely in the mountains of southern Switzerland, a nice change particularly as less than 24hrs earlier we had no plans to be here yet. With the views obstructed for now, we rugged up and headed off the the train station to get information on tra...

After making good time to Milan ( 130-140kph the whole way ) and successfully dropping the car off we made a decision. It turned out our accommodation was (like the Barcelona experience) not where we believed it was. We could see no point in staying this far out for the night, so we cancelled our accommodation and headed straight for the central train station to stand in front of the board and decide where to head next. With Switzerland only a couple of hours fro...

With no real plans for today we took the opportunity to have a sleep in and a relaxed breakfast without the pressing need to be somewhere. We were simply going to spend the day wandering around Verona, sipping espresso's and seeing Juliet's balcony. Not long into the day tragedy struck us! Upon parking the car and gathering our things from the seat our beloved camera fell to the ground, of all the places it's been and survived it drops while getting it from t...