After a lot of trouble getting the car out of the narrow road we camped (we had to back up 200 metres because the place that we thought was big enough to turn wasn’t) we drive from Italy into Switzerland again and head north over the Gotthard pass. I actually wanted to go through the Gotthard tunnel to show Alison how it feels to drive 16 kilometres through a tunnel with a whole lot of rock on top of you. But there was a big traffic jam, so taking the pass was much faster, and it’s an easy pass anyway, with wide road and big turns. When we arrive at the other end of the Gotthard pass in Andermatt, we find out that there is still so much snow that the Furka pass is closed. We drive a bit further to take the S¸sten pass but that one is also closed and the Nufenen pass as well.
So the only way to get into Wallis from canton Uri is putting the car on a train and going through a long tunnel under the Furka pass. So Alison got her tunnel after all, although this one wasn’t free.
May 29 2006
Furka
After a lot of trouble getting the car out of the narrow road we camped (we had to back up 200 metres because the place that we thought was big enough to turn wasn’t) we drive from Italy into Switzerland again and head north over the Gotthard pass. I actually wanted to go through the Gotthard tunnel to show Alison how it feels to drive 16 kilometres through a tunnel with a whole lot of rock on top of you. But there was a big traffic jam, so taking the pass was much faster, and it’s an easy pass anyway, with wide road and big turns. When we arrive at the other end of the Gotthard pass in Andermatt, we find out that there is still so much snow that the Furka pass is closed. We drive a bit further to take the S¸sten pass but that one is also closed and the Nufenen pass as well.
So the only way to get into Wallis from canton Uri is putting the car on a train and going through a long tunnel under the Furka pass. So Alison got her tunnel after all, although this one wasn’t free.
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