//Europa 2006//

Well, here we are in Gryon Switzerland, a small town in the french speaking part of the alps. The change from busy Italy is a huge relief and the weather is much more appealing. This morning it rained until about 8:30 and was a comfortable 14C. The air is very clear and the water tasted great. I knew there was something I liked about Switzerland. The mountains here are a little lower in elevation compared to the ones in Gimmelwald, therefore there are a lot more trees and actually roads with cars. After the rain cleared up this morning there was the mist rising from the hills that reminded me of the smokies.

The hostel that we found is very cozy and homely feeling. They have some good rules like taking your shoes off in the hostel, the upper two floors are quiet after 11pm (very nice compared to our room in Florence were there were loud trucks and scooters all night). This hostel is near perfect except for the lack of wireless internet, they're charging 1 frank for five minutes. Last night one of the people staying here gave us some bread and cheese and some other stuff for dinner and tonight we are have spaghetti with the whole hostel. There is a girl here that is from Asheville that we met last night. She is a grad student that teaches at Wester and works at the Grey Eagle in Swannanowhere. So it's a pretty small world I guess.

I think I am ready to be heading back to Ireland. We were talking to Will and it looks like he'll be spending less then 12 hours in Ireland, which is a same. We fly in at 8pm and he flies out at 6:30 the next morning. I'm also ready to be going home as well, its been a long month.

Until next time,

--gb

# posted by gbruns @ 7:35 AM