Believe it or not, but Santa Claus showed up last night!!! A
supermarket bag fill of Asda canned food was sitting outside our van
when woke. Thank you very much to the two Newcastle bus drivers who
obviously rise a little earlier than us. I hope the long trip home
was a good one.
For us it was another day of up-down-up-down-up. First was
Oberalppass to 2,046m, this pass was a little different to all the
rest as instead of the train going through the mountain it went up and
over like the road - quite amazing really.
Then it was down and straight back up to Furkapass at 2,436m After a
bit of lunch at the top, while Marea rested, I took a walk to a
glacier and some very impressive jagged rocks sitting up above.
Finally, after dropping a long way down we reached Visp where we
turned up a valley for our final climb to the village of Tasch - our
launching pad to the vehicle-free town of Zermatt which lies at the
top of the valley. Above Zermatt - the mighty Matterhorn!!! Fingers
and toes crossed that the clouds that have been round today do a magic
disappearing act!!
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