Trummelbach Falls |
However, when it came down to it, we failed again. We had a good could of days driving down through France at a leisurly (for us) pace, stopping in Verdun for a couple of nights. A flappy gearstick later and confidence in the "it'll be OK" diagnosis, using google translator, from a VW dealer in Besancon we carried on.
The we found ourselves in northern Switzerland and kind of decided that actually we should have a look around. It is a beautiful coutry and we bought ourselves a motorway vignette and headed off to Interlaken.
Camping in Stechelberg |
I guess we then decided to move on and seemed to spend the next few days going up and down the Alps. We certainly managed a lot of alpine passes - Sustenpass and St Gottard into Ticino (Italian Switzerland) where we stopped and took in the Madonna del Sasso before getting caught in the mother of all thunderstorms at the campsite.
Climbing in the Busenbrand |
Mountain wildlife |
We continued north into Germany and flirted with the Schwartzwald again staying in St Peter before spending my (40th) birthday driving up to Bingen to join the Rhine gorge up through Koblenz. We then headed across country into Belgium and spent the night at a campsite very close to the Spa Grand Prix circuit, not quite realising that one day later and we'd have been fully caught up in the GP frenzy. The countryside round here is fantastic. Birthday dinner was an interesting selection of deep fried items containing cheese and other indistinguishable content.
Madonna del Sasso, Locarno |
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