Foreshadowing – we are in the final stages of planning for a trip to Western Australia (our first big trip in a little while). We have been told that WA stands for “Windy Always” – we shall see.

Jo has done an awesome job of working out an itinerary that takes in a lot of the sights, loads of wildflowers (’tis the season for it) and we are very excited to get going.

Marked on the map are the places we are staying. The driving distances are huge – oz is such a big island continent

We plan to drive North of Perth initially, then return to Perth and ditch the hire car for a while, then do the south of Perth stuff after that with another hire car. Should be interesting.

Switzerland … what a lovely place to visit – the scenery…wow.

The last 2 weeks was honestly a bit of a blur – fabulous but we were tired, the weather was all over the place and blogging took a backseat to experiencing the journey I am afraid. We took a train to Geneva and CERN, visited, Montreux, moved by train to Zermatt, went up to the Matterhorn. We took the train to Interlaken and visited Harder Kulm, then on to Lauterbrunnen Valley, visited Jungfraujoch, sailed Lake Brienz then travelled to Zurich via Lucerne, sailed Lake Zurich and finished up at Lindt Chocolate.

Lesson learned – 7 weeks overseas is too long, I ran out of puff, did not blog Switzerland, sadly. We did enjoy it however and have some stunning photos, but were much less impressed with the food, sadly, which to us was overpriced and bland – feel free to discuss.

I also learned that I get altitude sickness, discovered the day we went up to Jungfraujoch, although not when we went to The Matterhorn – fun fact.

I will attempt to do better next time.