Scott Battye

It's a bit of a short one today, but don't worry there's a bonus post coming which I've been cooking up for the last few days. The ankle this morning was still a bit sore, better than yesterday but after another 15,000 steps I figured it would be best to actually take it easy today and not do too much walking, especially as I don't know how much I'll need to do getting to the hotel in Stuttgart tomorrow. So I made the decision early this morning that I'd ditch the Gotthard Tunnel Experience...

The ankle brace helped a bit, but the ankle is still struggling. I probably don't myself any favours with days like today. This morning I had a slow start as I wanted to give my ankle a bit more time in the brace before I headed out. I must have got sick of it at some point during the night in my sleep because I'd removed when I woke up this morning. I had some of my emergency supply of snack bars for first breakfast, and picked up the usual pretzel and choccy milk for the main breakfast. I...

The day the ankle cried enough. Woke up this morning at about 6:30, that's been a pretty standard time throughout the trip, and figured I might as well get up and have a shower. As I rolled out of bed I found that I couldn't stand. My left ankle felt like it had been sprained in several directions and wouldn't let me put any pressure on it. Well shit. I had planned a rest day for tomorrow where I would take it easy and find something with a fair amount of sitting to do. After eventually...

Another big day of train travel today. Not scenic trains this time though, I just need to transfer between a few different trains to get where I am going. Destination: Lucerne (Luzern) Before departing though, there was time to do a bit of souvenir shopping and sightseeing before checking out of the hotel. Mind you though, even after checking out I hung around for a bit longer to try and catch a glimpse of the Matterhorn. This was probably the best conditions I got, overhearing a local talking...

Another big day today. I've diagnosed the issue, it was my laptop being out of space on the C: Drive due to temporary files. I've got a backlog of photos to edit and upload. Today was the day, the Glacier Express. One of the key reasons I came Switzerland was to do this train journey after seeing footage of it online. The slowest express train in the world takes 8 hours to get from St Moritz to Zermatt, a distance of around 160km. It winds its way along the Rhone to Visp and then turns to...

Third times the charm. Today was a big day. (I've got more photos to add to this post, my photo editing software is misbehaving though, I'll try and get to it in Zermatt) I haven't even had a chance to sort through any of the photos and videos I took today. There are too many. By my count I took almost a thousand photos on my SLR alone. The phone and DJI Pocket have more photos and videos to go through at some point. But what a day it was. Started with a bit more of a walk around Chur, found...

So this time, it wasn't my fault. Heather and Sean yesterday had put forward the idea of catching the train up to Arosa, a skiing village to the south east that would take around an hour to get there. The information we had received was that the Chur Guest Card from Chur Tourism would give us free travel on the buses and mountain railways for the duration of our stay. As none of us had any other plans we decided to go for it even though the weather was not ideal as you can see in the picture...

Here's a lesson in what not to do: Don't purchase tickets online and then lose your only way to access them by... not being online. It's a bit of a long one but I promise I'll come back to that. Today was the day to depart Zurich and head south towards the Alps. I had booked a lot of my tickets in advance but stupidly forgot the one to get me from Zurich to Chur, figuring I had no idea at that point what I was going to be doing I purchased a day pass before leaving and thought nothing more of...

Well I had a better night's sleep last night after I figured out I could open the window to let some of the cool Swiss air into the room. The air conditioning either isn't working or is intentionally turned so low that it barely pushes any air, and that made the room extremely hot the first night. Today I booked in to a city bus tour and Lake Zurich cruise. It was scheduled to leave at midday so I had the morning to wander around looking at more of Zurich. I decided to head in the direction I...