I'm Going on an Adventure (Alastair and Bini's Exchange Blog)

Had breakfast at hostel  Bini had bed bugs last night and got bitten really badly. Over 100 bites on her arms and legs.  Hostel was really good about it and moved her to a different plus washed all her clothes and put her bags in the freezer to kill any bed bugs. Also the hostel moved us into a dorm together which was great becasue we needed to get up super early the next morning.  Left hostel about 11 ish and went into to town.  Had lunch at last night’s curry place. Had one lamb carry to share between us today.  Truly didn’t' do much for the rest of the day. Went looking for souvenirs and also visited a nice church which all the other tourists seemed to be going to. Must have been a main site but I don't remember its name.  After buying all the souvenirs and presents we relaxed on the lake side again and looked up places to have fondue for dinner.  Sadly, all the fondue places were stupidly expensive, and we decid...

Another chill day.  Had breakfast at hostel. Was decent.  Bini had a few weired bites this morning. Weren't sure they were bed bugs yet.  Had a relaxing morning then went into the main town for lunch. I had a sausage ripe for lunch and bini got a sausage sandwich, I also got a hot chocolate which was great! Then we went to the glacier gardens. 13 years ago I remember there being a ball suspended on a jet of water. Sadly that wasn't there. Still we enjoyed the history, mirror maze, museum and the little tower at the top. Had a good sit and talk I'm gardens then went to relax on the edge of Lake Lucerne.  Wrote more blogs and reminisced about the best parts of our holiday.  Bini worked her food magic again and found us a amazing curry place which sold a meal for 10 euro. Curry was amazing!!! Bini's indian standards approved greatly. Went home and slept. 

Pretty chill day  Breakfast went as normal  Got up early and bought train tickets  Went to cable car station bought tickets to klina Matterhorn. Didn't have much  food yet on board.  Saw klina Matterhorn. Was cool. A great veiw from the top bini got great panoramic pictures. Went out to the snow feilds.  Watched a documentary on the animals of zermatt. Found out that we had seen a wolf on the marmot day. Bini thought it was at the time but I didn't  think they had them here.  Ran out of time and headed back.  Got on train from zermatt to visp  Changed in visp smoothly. (Wren we had bought our tickets the lady had given us a card showing all the platforms we needed to be on)  Got train from visp to Bern. Almost didn't get off at Bern ad bini was asleep and I was distracted writing blogs. Made it though my body was screaming at me to get off the train. Nice to have gut feelings.  Got on Tran from Bern to Lucerne.  Went smoot...

Woke up at 7. Got pastries from the bakery for breakfast and brought another baguette plus ham and cheese.  Walked to the cable car towards schwarzee and got on the cable car at 9. Got off at Furi accidentally but got back on and made it to schwarzee where the hornli hut walk started.  Had a banana and a pastry that we'd bought earlier and began our walk. First part of the walk. Was uneventful, had lots of break because bini was struggling and I wasn't feeling 100% yet. Saw some very friendly sheep at a not functioning chairlift station. They were super friendly and came up for scratches to everyone who came past.  Next part of the walk was a bit interesting. We walked along the metal walkway attached the the cliff which was fun. Freaked bini out a bit. A the end of this some of the veiw grates had fallen off so we had a very small path to walk around with cliff on our right and a scree slope on our left. That bit  was interesting. Ah well only went for a couple of m...

Slept I. This morning went down the bakery to get breakfast. Had a croissants of some kind.  The plan today was to do the five lakes walk and go up the gornegrat.  First stop today we went to the tourist office and got some information about what we wanted to do.  We also got some information in the half fare card and discovered that it  would be worth buying just for our time in zermatt.  Bought half fare card. Bought baguette, ham and cheese for lunch  Headed up the the start of the give lakes walk at 2:30, had lunch and headed off the the first lake.  Was a little windy today so you couldn't see the reflection of the he  Matterhorn in the lake. Spent a while here then walked the wrong way out of the lakes.  Once we'd work it out decided we do a loop back down to the main path. Loop took a while but we saw 2 marmots one which was huge and fat and one which had wiskers. They were both very cute.  The loop was interesting ad we walked al...

Woke up. I'm very sick today no surprise.  Had breakfast.  Headed off to station to get train at 11 to Brig. Train uneventful apart from the huge tunnel we went though between italy and Switzerland.  Changed train at brig to zermatt. Just missed the next train to zermatt so had to wait an hour. It was fine. Got some money out and played the piano that was there.  Got to zermatt and got into our appartment. Good apparment. Had a panic when I saw the printed invoice which said we hadn't paid any money and I we'd already paid $420 to booking.com.  Anyway went to the place to pay and argue. All was good just needed to pay the tourist tax. Went home and relaxed.  Bini searched trip advisor for a place to get great cheap food. Found a chicken place that was meant to be good. Chicken place was run by a scary lady that didn't seem to like bini (I was dead). Still managed to buy roast chicken and chips. Went back to appartment and consumed dinner. Didn't make tooooo...