TrackNotes

It took us a while, but we got here in the end. Driving through Switzerland is interesting. You seem to dip into a tunnel every 10 minutes and emerge into a new pretty valley with a pretty lake, and just as you have had a good look, another tunnel, and another valley. Emerging out of the Gottard tunnel, suddenly everything that was German is now Italian, still Swiss, but very Italian at the same time. The services had a self-service restaurant the like of which I had never seen before. Chefs to cook you stuff, piles of colourfull fruit. They clearly care a lot about the food. We settled for little tarts with custard and glazed fruit. Not the best cycling food, but that place deserved it.