We set off for Switzerland on Tuesday 23rd April after having a dress rehersal of finding the right freeway the day before, and then deciding it was too cold and that we were too tired, so we spent Monday in bed.
Hitching seems to be a matter of where is a good pick-up point and drop off point, the rest isn't so difficult. So we found our spot - enough room for a car to pull off the road, good visibility of our sign and not on the freeway. It took us several lifts to get south and it started to rain and then snow and then blizzard. We managed to only get slightly damp, and the bad weather was mainly when we were in cars. At one point however we were ejected onto the road during a raining snow storm, and only high spirits kept us warm. We kept cursing - where is summer? We've "done" winter we've "done" cold, give us something else now. We wanted to sweat and burn in the sun. We started to doubt if they have summer in Europe. Everyone kept telling us that in April the weather is temperamental and May shoul see the summer. Well it has 5 days to get it's act together.
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