Well, we are now in Switzerland, visiting my daughter and some big Swiss sights....like the Matterhorn. We took a day trip up there May13...Friday...an omen. All went well until we were on the second leg of our journey. Traveling with a rail pass means you don't have to pay for tickets for national rail systems. Unfortunately, the trip from Visp to Zermatt was not on a national rail system. I did not know that. When the man came to collect tickets, I whipped out our first class rail pass and gave it to him. He looked at it and leaned in and said, "Sir, this pass is not valid on our line." He then huddled up Dan and I and explained the situation...we were traveling a private line without tickets. He said we would have to buy tickets. He was very nice. He sold us a second class ticket back from Zermatt and allowed us to stay in the first class car for the ride up. He really could have made life difficult for us.
Anyway, the cog train took us to Zermatt, where we bought tickets for the Gornergrat area and rode up to were we could almost touch the Matterhorn! What a view!
We got here on the TGV....France's high speed rail. At some point in the route from Avignon to Lyon, the train was hitting well over 120 mph.... amazing to travel at that speed and not even know it.
Pictures attached include: Dan hanging out his clothes, the TGV in Avignon, the train up to Zermatt, The Matterhorn, two Americans in front of the Matterhorn to prove they were there, a guy who was riding his bike down the mountain.....said it would take 20 minutes!!!
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