Bye Switzerland

This morning we had a "sleep in" which I think meant that Grant and Bea woke up about 8. Good luck trying to convince me that that (man english is messed up sometimes) is a sleep in. Grant and I went for a run and we went up to the table where we cooked sausages (3rd time for me, pretty sweet table). I showed Grant where the geocache was and he took a travel bug to take home to New Zealand. Now he is committed to buying a GPS and doing some caching. We decided to do some explore running on the way home and set off down a wee track. We seemed to be going pretty good with our route finding until we went down a track that petered out completely. This felt familiar to me from the other day. Since bush bashing had gone so well before we decided to do it again. I said "the worst thing that can happen is that  we get bluffed out" and then we got bluffed out. It wasn't too bad though, not real bluffs, just wet steep slippery slopes down to a river and a creek. We could see the road from the top so we backtracked up the creek and found somewhere to get down that minimised potential injuries. Then just as we got close to the road we had to go across another creek and up a steep bank through a tangle of blackberries. Needless to say: the bush bash didn't go so well this time.

We then went to look for presents for staying with the Eckerts and pick up Bea from Winterturgh (about 15min away from Pfungen. Unfortunately when we arrived we rang Beas phone and it did a weird beeping thing. We carried on with the rest of our plan and got a dry bag and a pack cover for Werner. Then we tried Beas phone a couple more times to no avail. We decided that her phone must be broken and pulled the pin on the rescue Bea part of the plan. On the way home Grant was optimistic that she would be back at the house magically, but she was not. So we started lunch without her (Ridiculously tasty sausages and shredded potatoes). Luckily a bedraggled Bea (it had started raining pretty hard) turned up 10 min later and explained her phone company had cut her off because she hadn't paid the bill. She had caught a train home. Speaking of rain, we were so lucky with the weather, apparently some of Werners friends had gone hiking somewhere close to where we had gone (the day before) and it was pissing down.

So we packed up our stuff and left Werners house. I am so grateful that we had such an awesome place to stay and feel pretty lucky that I got to go to see a small part of the Swiss alps. Werner said I could go back and stay with him and he has a friend that has done mountain guiding before that could take me into the serious mountains. I just might have to take him up on that some time, anyone else keen? Looking at you Rowan, Vaughn, Micky D. You are invited too Jimmy but I know how you feel about walking/being overseas.

So I have just got to Heathrow from Zurich and I am waiting for a flight to Edinburgh to hang out with Gary Sinclair for a while.