Back on tour Paris and Switzerland

Prior to leaving Europe I wanted to see some of Italy, Greece and Croatia. Therefore I went on the net and researched many different ways to get around and found the best way was going to be on a tour bus and I once again booked with Top Deck.
This tour I was the experienced one, I knew what touring in the coach was all about and I was just so excited to be out exploring Europe again. Our first stop after the ferry from Dover to Calais was Paris. We arrived in a couple of days before the Tour De France riders were due to finish, so almost exactly a year to the day I had been there previously.
I had climbed the Eiffel Tour and visited the Louvre so this time around I spent the free day exploring the Catacombs, the Notre Dame and the Père Lachaise Cemetery. I went to the cemetry in search of Jim Morrison's grave. That night in Paris I also went on a river Siene cruise and I felt I learnt so much more about the city this year than when I was there the year before.
The next stop after Paris was into Switzerland where we stayed a couple of nights in Lauterbrunnen. The mountains offer some magnificent views and I was excited to get to the top and have a look around. The easiest and quickest, yet not the cheapest way to get to the top of the Jungfrau is to catch the train. Being on a restricted timeline it is what I opted to do. The train drives through tunnels nearly the whole way up the mountain. To give all passengers a chance to look around the train stops a couple of times on the way up where you can get out and have a look out a glass window. When we looked out the cloud was so low and thick you couldn't see a single thing and it was highly unlikely it was going to change for the day.
When you reach the top you walk out of the station through an ice sculpture museum walkway till you reach the outside. I probably spent a couple of hours outside at the top and walked to a little hut which has been turned into and bar. The cloud did move enough for me to get some grasp on just how big the mountains were. I boarded a train late in the afternoon and headed downard back to our cabins. That night I caught up with more previous bus driver from the tour the year before and enjoyed a massive drinking session with him.