Switzerland and getting ready for the Alps
Four days after our
departure and we are already in Switzerland! Going through Basel we
fill that the atmosphere is different. People are relaxed, having a
drink, enjoying their company, and eating some finger food. It's
Saturday evening and we feel it while biking along the Rhine river.
In Switzerland, we
begun to realise what we were doing. We realised that we are maybe
not enough prepared, that we have limits, that we need each other and
sometimes outside help as well. We started to talk to people, who
were coming to us or whom we were looking for:
Sunday, for sure the
hardest day until now, is also the one where we had the greatest
encounters. The day was rainy, cold and we had to bike a lot.
Switzerland wakes us up with a warm 7,5CHF coffee!!! Deal with it! We
forgot it quite fast while cycling on the hilly roads. Every moment
can be ours and we enjoy each part of the trip. We improvise breaks
for having lunch or just some fun.
The hilly road becomes
more steep and rain also comes to provoke us. Through the Jura hills
we push our bikes and put all our forces into it. Some nice lady
gives us some band-aids and some hazelnut cake. Simple things can be
seen as treasures when they arrive in the most needed moment.
Later
in the evening a wonderful mother warms us up with a tea and protects
us for the rain for a while:
We continue that endless day until
arriving to Judith and Thomas, our first Warmshowers experience. It's
already night for long but we made it. We thought we didn't have any
energy left until having seen the delicious home-made cheese fondue
that they prepared for us. Miummyyyy!!!
They are a generous
couple of cyclists in their fifties, biking during their holidays in
Europe and Middle-East. Good luck to them and hope you others will
have the chance to meet them :)
Switzerland is also
full of lakes, of which we enjoyed the shores. We needed some rest
after this rainy day and before climbing the Alps. The sun is back on
our side and we love it. Sempach lake or Vierwaldstättersee we will
miss you and maybe you will miss us!
Altdorf, Erstfeld,
Wassen, Göschenen (a.k.a. Gotham), Andermatt are our next
checkpoints now! Each one higher than the other, they will lead us to
the Gotthard Pass and to warm and tasty Italy!
We bike along the Reuss
river that refresh us in the morning and sings us before falling
asleep. Surrounded by mountains, Ayana already found her favourite,
the Bälmeten! Temperatures are getting down in the night but our
skins burn during the day! We still find some time to make a tortilla
or hang our hammock somewhere. After 3 days camping through the Alps
we reached classy Andermatt. We arrived in the evening and
hesitating to reward ourself with a hotel room or a nice restaurant
and a powerful breakfast. For sure we choose the food!!! But
incredible lucky us, while asking here and there for a camping spot
in a garden we got invited by Iggi/URI and his family in their comfy
studio by their beautiful house. This family born and raised in
Andermatt really charged our batteries with their generosity and
Swiss chocolate.
Röstis and beer were
delicious! We are now ready for the final climb!
Will we make it?
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