Switzerland

Friday Our all too short visit with Dana and Cedric came to a close today. Deanna and I are sad to be leaving. In a short period of time, I feel like they have become good friends. We started the day with a good old Canadian breakfast of pancakes, sausages and maple syrup. Nice to have a bit of taste of home. Dana was waiting for a call from her Doctor.

Thursday Today we headed to the mountain town of Zermatt. Anyone who skis has heard of Zermatt and the Matterhorn. It’s about 90 minutes from Sion. It’s not possible to drive in the town, we arrived in Täsch which has a huge new car park bought train tickets to take us up the mountain to the town of Zermatt. It’s a short 12 minute train ride to the town of Zermatt.

Tuesday A mostly travel day today. We said goodbye to Felicity and Florian and headed to the bus and train that would eventually take us to Brugg. Not a typical stop for someone touring Switzerland however Dierk had a meeting at the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland where he is teaching. While at his meeting, Deanna and I walked around some ancient Roman sites including the remains of a large Amphetheter.

Sunday We arrived in Frankfurt safe and sound. The plane trip was as expected, long, cramped and diffucult to get any sleep on, but it was fine. After a fairly quick stop at immigration, we made our way through the airport to find our box of goodies. It too arrived intact with the minor alteration that it had been opened by customs (looked to be in Calgary), the contents searched and repackaged.

Saturday Deanna and I are headed to Europe for two weeks! July isn’t our usual time to travel but I have an opportunity to attend JCrete and it didn’t take much convincing to get Deanna to come along. Since we’re travelling all that way, we decided to spend an additional week in Europe. When I mentioned what our plans were to Dierk König (@mittie), he offered to put us up at his house and play tour guide for a couple of days.