Friday, January 18, 2013

14th Jan- To Gornergrat and then to Zurich

After the Hotel Breakfast we walked around town for a short while and discovered that the special train up the steep mountain to Gornergrat was leaving in then minutes and so splashed on two return tickets at no small cost.
The train journey takes about half an hour and takes you quite high up to about 10000 feet and there were many skiers in the train waiting for their chance to break a leg or something. We arrived at the top and found a that there was a big hotel there and so had a cup of coffee overlooking the mountains before then getting back to the train station and the return journey  to Zermatt.
We collected our suitcases an following a misunderstanding between the porter and Jennifer, our lift to the station cleared off and so we had to drag our cases though the snow for about 15 minutes, just what my gamy leg needed and its a pity that I did not have any rum to rub in. The train jounrey to Zurich meants a change in Visp which was a thing charging from one platform to another and we arrived in Zurich and met by our host Otto who took back to his very nice house outside of Zurich with great views from the large lounge windows.

Ween joyed a very nice light Raclet dinner and chatted away until quite late and then off to bed.