Mel's Holiday Blog: BREATHTAKING!!!

Friday the 3^rd September
Well… I have a new favourite location in the world. Perhaps this will change again in the next few days or weeks, but for the time being, move over Great Ocean Road. You are now number 2.

We are in Geneva at the moment, but this morning we woke up in beautiful Chamonix. As I said in my last blog, mountain view room, was wonderful to wake up to! After crawling away from bed with the beautiful view, we ate breakfast and made our way over to the world famous cable car. The cable car goes up the mountains and crosses over into Northern Italy. The summit of the trip is near Mount Blanc, which stands at an amazingly tall 3800m. All I can say, is that was the most beautiful experience I have ever had in my life The whole way you overlook spectacular mountains and it is just breathtaking, literally… You are 4000m up and the air is very thin up there. Brendon and I would walk up a flight of steps and have to sit down because it just exhausts you!

These photos don't even do it justice, it was just amazing. What a way to say goodbye to France! And Brendon had never seen snow before! Well he has now, and he was very excited about it!

Driving into Switzerland took us a little while. We kept going on the scenic routes and ended up crossing the border a few times! I think including Italy we were in different countries 5 times! Blows your mind a bit being an Aussie!! It was amazing! It is just so beautiful around here! There are mountains everywhere, and lovely houses and buildings. The roads are beautiful and windy and it s just the most amazing experience. Although when we got to Geneva that was a different story. There were bikes everywhere and they just ride out in front of you. And it took us over an hour to drive a 5 minute drive. It was pretty but by that stage we were completely exhausted and all we wanted to do was go to bed. After an obstacle course of finding the hotel, we went and found a place for dinner and happened to get seated next to some former Aussie turned Swiss people - so we had a nice chat, then went back to the hotel and crashed.