All aspects of trip preparation and planning. Wondering thorough Europe. Biking and Hiking.Sights and sounds. Travel journal.
Finally, on Saturday, August 21, 2010 it was time to take our first hike into the mountains. Back in Boston I picked a path going up towards Monte Bianco (Italian) from Italian side. It was a day trip starting from 1,500m parking lot and going as high as 2,590m at […]
On the morning of August 20, Friday we woke up in Geneva. You have to show your hotel receipts at the kitchen counter to get your breakfast. Lots of people of all ages. Some tourists, but some looked like ready to take off for work. As usual, the roads were […]
A new mode of camping was adopted for this trip. My camp was off a very remote section of the White Mountain Forest. Plus, road was blocked by construction. My base camp was 0.6 miles on bike from the car, and then another 0.4 miles on foot. That was far […]
07:00 – I remember waking up very early and planning in my head how to break the camp most efficiently. There was no rain, but everything outside was dripping wet. First to be folded and packed were sleeping bag and pads, food and clothes, kitchen and bath bags. Among first […]
Morning and early afternoon on Wednesday, August 18 we spent in Fribourg (Freiburg in German). This town is a perfect model for Disney World for adults. It simply has everything. It is the capital of a canton (like a state in US). It has upper town and a lower town. […]
Woke up at 05:51 – the record and without any hesitation I was ready to leave the camp in just half an hour. 06:31 start excursion number 4 – “Pond of Safety” Road is a mess. All 5 yards of it. Road is very wide here, but it has no […]
This was the only sunny and even hot day of this trip. Wake up at 7AM. As today will be rain-free, I will put on old boots and leave new boots to dry out on sticks all day in the camp. Large new back pack all this time just having […]
07:20 wake up and put on dry socks and dry boots. Second breakfast of fallen birches – cantaloupe from Walmart cut by machete. 08:55 depart of an “excursion” number 2. I did not even take paper map with me – there is everything on iPhone GPS topo maps. Today’s trip […]
This is a summary article about the rules and tradition that we discovered are very convenient and important to follow. Italian – Learn and use basic Italian words. Do not be a mute foreigner. At least spice up your inability to speak with a bright smile and Buon Giorno […]
Next morning Monday, August 16 rain continued, but for us it was time to move on. First we visited a local Migros Genossenschaft in Adliswil – their supermarket, where we had breakfast + lunch and loaded on food and water supplies for the road ahead. We felt like we were disturbing […]
Rain all night, but I am dry in the tent. Raindrops from the trees still pounding on the tarp, but earplugs softening the noise. 05:55 Awake, but it is raining. Decided to continue to sleep Very slow morning – no reason to venture out while it is raining. 07:55 Wake […]
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