Day 34: Towards Switzerland

For this day I had nothing special planned. Biggest issue was to find a cheap hotel in Switzerland as it was looking quite expensive. But after breakfast I made the decision and finalized the route for today.

My bike is starting to look like it would need a wash. Usually I have been washing the bike during these journeys at least once, but now I have not done that.

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Just after 08:00 I was out on the road again and heading towards Switzerland. Weather was not promising very good, dark clouds were everywhere around but I did not bother to put rain suite on before it was really starting to rain.

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On one of the small passes near Chamonix it started raining, but it was not that heavy rain so I just continued. Route around this area would have been just great if the sun would have been there. Need to go there again some year.

In Martigny I finally needed to take a break to get some fuel and again the usual amount.

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From here I simply drove to the hotel and some 100km before that I finally needed to put rain suite on as it was raining too much.

After driving 539 km in 10 hours I finally arrived in small hotel called Hotel Post in Emmetten. Hotel room price was a bit over my designated limit, but close enough.

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Hotel was a bit far from the route, but as alternatives were a bit short I decided to take this one. Wi-Fi in this place was not that good in the room so again I sat quite a long in the restaurant having dinner and planning for the next day. I managed to get the Wi-Fi working in the room finally as well by taking off power from the repeater in the hall and connecting through my phone which I left outside connected to Wi-Fi in the restaurant, sharing the internet connection via Bluetooth.

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I had seen on the way lots of the hotels that had a name ‘post’ in their name and this one I chose was also originally some sort of home for postmen in the old days.

Total for the trip is now 11133 km.

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