Saturday, July 7, 2012

Greetings from Switzerland

We've stopped at a pizzeria with WiFi, so I thought I'd quickly check in! Yesterday we left Italy after lots of shopping and exploring through beautiful Venice. We stayed at a campground on the beach that had absolutely everything you could ask for right on property. It reminded us of an all-inclusive resort in Mexico. After three nights (€211,70 for the three nights), we moved on heading for Switzerland. On the Italian border we met a wonderful family with a small garden and supplied our RV with tons of fruit. We picked guava off the tree (at least I think it's guava), blackberries, cherries, strawberries, figs, raspberries and two pears. They also grew avacados, Chinese mandarin oranges (which we fed to the horse they had), lettuce and cabbage. They were very-very generous and really friendly. It was a highlight for sure! Last night we parked at a 24 hour parking spot in southern Switzerland and woke up to beautiful Alps views and three spectacular castles. Dennis went for a morning hike and was greeted by a hillside with goats begging for attention and a mid evil castle to poke around in from the 13th century. The kids and I made pancakes in the RV and then explored another castle from the 13th century as well. I've come full circle, back to the pizzeria with WiFi. We're in a small Alps town called San Bernardino. If you get a chance to google it, please do! The journey has been hairpin turns on a back road where I swear we've met our bumper a few times! We've gone from sea level to 5500 feet and it's glorious! We're truly on top of the world! We're now going to hunt down a campground and spend the night in Switzerland again... Next stop Lichtenstein, then off to Paris!

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