Some good news & some bad

BA flight to Zurich. We checked in and were directed to oversized luggage check-in as expected. There we met Mr "I don't give a stuff about your bikes" - he oused lack of interest and total lack of people skills. The x-ray machine was not big enough, he tried to stuff Di's through on the conveyerbelt and continued even when it hit the sides. Leave them here and I will sort it later. Yeah yeah we thought. We arrived in Zurich and our bikes had taken a bashing, dragged along the floor and the bags ripped into. We piled onto a train - piled yes as there were no bike spaces - and we totally blocked the end of one carriage. This pissed off a visually impaired woman and we received a number of comments  'bloody foreigners' I can imagine they were saying. An hour later we were in Zug being pampered by  Pat's godson Anthony and wife Mel and Annabel (6months) said hi as well.

Today - 3 train changes and arrived in Oberalppass at about 2.30. Great trains and pleasant journey and rail staff and passengers could not have been more helpful, I guess we are now in the country away from the hustle of city life. . That was all the good news.

The bad. This morning Di slipped in the shower and her wrist/lower arm has swollen badly through the day and it hurts. After a little sustanance the owner of our lodgings sent Di and Pat down to Andamatt (25mins by road) to visit a quack. Yep, you guessed, broken radius, needs to go further down the mountain to Altdorf to hospital. We are awaiting developments.

'Tis now Friday and we have a plan, Di arrived back from the hospital last night with tales of how good the medics were - all sorted via the European Health card. The plan is to ship Di's bike home and for her to follow us by train. I went down to the station with them, they are going to Andermatt to sort stuff out BUT I think they may have got on the wrong train and as I type are speeding down the mountain in the wrong direction.

We are having an extra night in Oberalppass, walking to the Rhine source this afternoon and starting cycling tomorrow.