[Yak] Get to Switzerland!

[Tony Raven]

Second that recommendation - we spent four weeks camping touring with 
the family on two full size tandems.  Things you don't really cover are:

The ease of travelling on the trains and boats with bicycles.  We never 
had any trouble with two tandems and with two young daughters and loaded 
tandems plus Bob trailer we tended to take the train over the passes. 
We also took them up the side valleys and then coasted back down.  If 
you join trains, boats and cycling you can cover quite a lot of the 
country with the train taking the strain and the train service is superb.

Switzerland is quite flat if you stay in the valleys (and more so if you 
take the train over the passes).  This is contrary to expectations based 
on pictures of a mountainous country.

Glad you enjoyed it

Tony

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> Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 08:28:55 -0400
> From: Derek & Sharon Wilbraham <dwilbraham at suscom-maine.net>
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>    We just came back from a 3 week trip cycling through Switzerland. It 
> was fantastic! I was on my Bike Friday New World Tourist and my husband 
> was on our coupled DaVinci tandem with our 7 year old daughter.