We made Dover in good time arriving about 2 hours early so managed to get on the 10 am sailing after a very pleasant crossing. We drove down through France stopping off in a little village for dinner before carrying on down through Belgium and the Luxembourg where we stayed ina little hotel for the night near a place called Saverene.
Next morning we were off early down back into France and then along the Rhine into Switzerland where we had a minor detour around Basle when Sam took a right turn a bit too early, still a nice brief tour of the city before we found a way back out onto the motorway. It gave us chance to see the Swiss trams tramming along!
It cost us 36 Euros to get into Switzerland to use the roads, they gave us change in Swiss Francs that we spent in a motorway stop, Sam got the coffee that worked out at roughly 7 pounds for a tiny cup that we shared about half a mouth full each and it was horrible to boot, worst coffee we've had all trip!
The trip down through Switzerland was very scenic as we gradually lost the lower land around the Rhine and climbed up into the mountains that still had quite a bit of snow on the peaks. There were also loads of Red Kites about, sometimes up to a dozen or more in view at the same time. The road up to the Gotthard pass was easy with a small queue to separate the traffic but not much to see for the 17km of the actual tunnel then down into Italy through beautiful glacial valleys with high waterfalls, hanging valleys, snow on the peaks and impressive bridges and tunnels. We crossed the the boarder into Italy late afternoon and then headed on down south.
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