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Marseille → Geneva → Chamonix → Interlaken

Marseille

(12—13 June)

• Missed the last bus and had to walk a couple of miles to the hostel which is in the middle of nowhere.
• Wasn't a big fan of Marseille - it reminded me of Glasgow, wandered around the next morning, but didn't see anything special.
• Took the TGV to Lyon and a connection to Geneva.

Geneva

(13—16 June)

I love Geneva — it is such a chilled out city, spread around the end of the lake with views of the sun setting on Mont Blanc. I spent a few days here, relaxing and getting into the travel mindset, visiting a few museums, CERN and eating by the side of the lake.

Eventually worked up the energy to leave, hitchiked to Cluses and took a train up to Chamonix

Chamonix

(16—18 June)

Stayed at the same hostel that I'd visited before at Les Pelerins. Met a guy that was climbing Mont Blanc the next day. Next morning I bought new shoes, as my old ones were giving me blisters, then climbed Brevent, across the vally from Mont Blanc. Snuck onto the telepherique for the way down. Contemplated staying another night, but the Alps are expensive, so the next day I took a train via Visp to Interlaken.

Interlaken

(18—21 June)

• Stayed at Balmers which is the most American hostel imaginable. Like staying in a frat house.
• Weather sucked - it rained the first day and I barely left the hostel.
• Took a train up to Grindelwald and walked up a hill. Low cloud meant I couldn't see the Eiger — need to go back another time.
• Switzerland is expensive!

So I haven't been very good at keeping my website up to date with my travels.

I'm in Mostar in Bosnia right now. The last few weeks have been pretty intense so I haven't really had time to sit down and write about what I've been doing. Because I have so much to write about, the actual sitting down to do it has become a little daunting.

What I plan to do to solve this is to continue writing longer essays infrequently, posting them out of sequence and after the event, however to keep everyone updated I'll post my itinerary and a few notes of what I've been up to every few weeks/countries.

Expect part one - Western Europe - in the next few days (as long as I don't get kicked off this wireless network)

Thanks for reading!