The next day neima and I bid farewell to my family and without really any planning decided we should get to the train station and see if we could make it to France.  What we found was no good.  Very expensive two day train rides were not very appealing so we got to thinking…Where could we go on the way to France that would be small and cheap…Zurich of course!  Not our wisest decision.  We got in fairly late and had no place to stay.  We wandered a weird deserted wing of the train station thinking it was the main part which made us a bit uneasy for a while.  Eventually we stumbled across the actual train center and started looking for an overnight train.  We found one to Toulouse but the lady at the desk told us the wrong conversion so it sounded way too expensive.  We decided to abandon hope for a night train and asked for the cheapest hotel.  We ended up at Valhalla, I don’t know who considers that much money cheap bit it must be nice…The price made me contemplate not sleeping and just wandering the town all night but my experience of doing that a few years ago in Italy convinced me not to.

That was just last night we stayed there and we are now on a strict diet of bread with bread sammiches to recoup our fundage.  I’m currently on a train from Zurich to Lyon which was about equivalent to the cost of our lovely motel.  Damn you Switzerland.  It doesn’t help that they don’t use the euro and our stay was too short to warrant using the atm, so we were basically helpless to buy water or food at most places.  I would put Switzerland down as the trips first costly mistake, although I had planned on one or two of those to be inevitable.  It is a very beautiful country, but ddddaaaannnnnggggg.