Just a quick bit about Vesoul. The tourist information place is really helpful and provides a small map of the town and some directions for walking around it. These are well worth getting and read like an audio tour, pointing out little features of all the things.
Also take a walk up the hill and see [...]

continue reading.....

Besançon is a very nice place to visit but apparently doesn’t get too many tourists. A shame as it’s definitely got a day’s-worth of wandering in it. It’s a very old town with huge fortified alls still standing all over, some towers down near the river, a Roman gate and a huge citadel overlooking it.
I’d [...]

continue reading.....

YouTube’s being a bit crap and not allowing more than a handful of videos to appear in their new “channel” things. So, the best way to look at my new stuff is to go to the page with all my videos on and pick the ones you’ve not seen yet. There are a few from [...]

continue reading.....

Several times in two days, in fact.
From Geneva, I hiked back to Nyon to replace the video that got destroyed when my memory card fritzed on me. From there, up into the hills and to La Cure which straddles the French/Swiss border. I stopped for a drink in a hotel there (l’Hotel Franco-Suisse) which actually [...]

continue reading.....

Just some stuff that’s come bubbling brainwards as I’ve been walking. First off – cars. The Swiss as a whole, but Genevois in particular seem to love their autos. Geneva is rather affluent and it shows. If you see a Golf, it’s more than likely a GTi (or even an R32). A Ford Focus? ST. [...]

continue reading.....

Geneva has them all and more. I’m going to rush through everything here as I don’t have much more time to add to the blog before I have to set off. A shame as there’s so much to tell! There are a few videos on my YouTube "MoshTour" player so go to my default channel [...]

continue reading.....

The next couple of days were more of a blur as I walked on single-personned. I strolled off west through Morges and Rolle, making it to the cute Nyon by the end of the 16th. Here I was to make another slight diversion to my plan, in a bid to provide variety and to add [...]

continue reading.....

As I had company, I decided to stay an extra day in Lausanne and be a tourist. There’s not a tremendous amount to see (the self-guided tour on the free map takes around 20 minutes if you don’t stop to take too many photos) but it’s pleasant enough. The only real downside is that it’s [...]

continue reading.....

Not so smart… I seemed to be infested with bedbugs overnight, which was particularly annoying as I’d spent money on a hostel to ensure a good night’s sleep after the recent camping. Instead, I was up and around at 3am trying to find another bed to sleep up, covered in insect bites. Not good.
The breakfast, [...]

continue reading.....

I’d been warned about the mountain roads round here so was tempted to get the bus up to where the old road began prior to the St Bernard Pass. Thing is, I’d been told the wrong bus stop so the thing thundered past me without so much as pausing.
I returned to the campsite to rethink [...]

continue reading.....