After yesterday’s incredible hike through the Berner Oberland, we were convinced to stick around and do some more hiking today. Unfortunately, we’d been told by more than one person to expect lots of rain in the morning, so we had gone to bed simply hoping for the best because the peaks here simply aren’t visible […]
Overnight we’d had plenty more rain, so I was a bit tentative when I crawled out of the tent at 6:30 this morning. I poked my head out of the tent and saw nothing but clear blue skies. Excitedly, we got out of bed and began packing up our stuff for our hike. Enjoying another […]
A surprisingly chilly night in Zermatt meant that I was able to break out my orange jacket for the first time since our free camp in the field of stinging nettle clear back in Tuscany. As we milled about the campground last night, everybody was dressed in full winter gear – long pants and big, […]
Today we had a new adventure to conquer- to find the Europcar location in Lecco. For some reason the rental car locations over here tend to move often, be difficult to find, and sometimes be poorly marked, so we weren’t exactly sure how tracking down our rental car reservation was going to work out. We […]
We woke up to the steady drizzle in our drafty room this morning, glad to be indoors. The temperature has dropped significantly since our first arrival in Switzerland to a high of something in the neighborhood of 50* Fahrenheit and a really chilly overnight low. The weather was steady and inclement, as expected. People keep […]
As we fell asleep to the sound of pouring alpine rain last night, I felt my usual annoyance at the weather. We knew today was slated to have the same nasty weather and we didn’t feel much like being stuck at our campground for another day. Rain riding was looking likely and I wasn’t excited. […]
I was excited today to finally get back into the Alps. While even the site of them makes Bree a little nervous, the route we have chosen through Switzerland should have few to no hills. First, though, we had to ride along the coast of Lake Geneva. The ride along the coast was fairly quiet, […]
There was quite the production in our campground last night, complete with a couple of really drunk guys getting in a shouting match sometime around midnight and we think, ultimately getting kicked out of the campground all together. Either way, since our walls are nylon, we got a late start on bedtime. Once awake, I […]
Having been somewhat disappointed with our lack of pictures from the old part of Annecy yesterday evening, the first order of business as we rolled out of our campsite this morning was to roll through the old town in hopes that we might get some pictures that I could live with. When we arrived to […]