{"id":5844,"date":"2012-10-18T19:14:32","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T18:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ourtour.co.uk\/home\/?p=5844"},"modified":"2018-12-18T12:18:14","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T12:18:14","slug":"snowy-mountain-passes-to-cinuos-chel-switzerland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourtour.co.uk\/home\/snowy-mountain-passes-to-cinuos-chel-switzerland\/","title":{"rendered":"Snowy Mountain passes to Cinuos-chel, Switzerland"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dave the motorhome has cold tyres, they’re sitting in the snow at Camping Chapella<\/a><\/strong> just outside Cinuos-chel in East Switzerland (N46.63209 E10.01435).<\/p>\n

Sleep was fitful last night as Dave was\u00a0buffeted\u00a0around by the howling wind, the car park was wide, flat and in the middle of the valley with no protection to be sought anywhere. We went to bed at 9.30 knowing we’d be woken quite a lot in the night. My dreams were of fun-fair rides, driving along a bumpy road and being in an earthquake – no doubt my external surroundings had some bearing on them.<\/p>\n

It turns out we were not alone in the car park last night, another motorhome from Switzerland was parked near us, and judging by the time they got up this morning (as late as us) we figured they too hadn’t had a peaceful night. At less than a Euro it was certainly worth it. Not only had we stopped in\u00a0Liechtenstein’s\u00a0capital ‘city’, but we were in the national football team’s stadium car park!<\/p>\n

As we’d found a free service point yesterday tucked away near the stadium loos, it was showers all round this morning before dumping all our waste water and filling up with fresh. Within a couple of minutes we were back in Switzerland on the other side of the Rhein heading along the motorway towards the\u00a0scary\u00a0mountain passes. The only thing we needed was diesel. At the first petrol station we saw, once we were off the motorway, we splashed a few litres into Dave so he could get us over the mountain. At 1.95CHF a litre it was some of the most expensive (non-service station) diesel we’ve seen, but how we now wish we’d filled up, as every station we’ve passed since the price has gone up – we’re now only seeing over 2CHF a litre!<\/p>\n

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Not much fun – repointing all the walls on the roadside before the snow comes<\/p><\/div>\n

Soon Dave was winding his way along the tarmac with lush green alpine meadows either side of him, these swept up into tree covered mountain slopes whose tops were white as if they had been dipped in sugar. Everywhere direction we looked in was like a scene from Heidi, so we weren’t too surprised to see Heidiland being advertised on the road side signs. The Heidi in the picture didn’t look anything like the Heidi I remember from the TV of my childhood. I figured that undoubtedly Peter the goat-herder was now grown up and the fame would have gone to his head so he’ll be in a rehab clinic elsewhere in the country, so we kept driving.<\/p>\n

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Klosters ski resort – no snow yet!<\/p><\/div>\n

We passed the turning for Klosters, our only knowledge of the place is as a ski resort the Royals like, there was no changing our mind either as the road then went straight into a very long tunnel. When we reached Davos, home of the annual World Economic Forum annual meeting (I really don’t know who they attract around 2500 CEOs, Politicians and Journalists to this ski resort at the end of January every year!) we pulled in for a look around. It didn’t look anything special from our parking spot although for 2CHF an hour to stop there you would like to think it did. The no motorhome signs didn’t appeal to us and the nearby campsite was purse-tighteningly expensive, so we left. I never expected Davos, Klosters etc to be cheap places, but I did like to think they would look something special and they didn’t really – not half as pretty as some of the ski resorts I’ve been to in the past.<\/p>\n

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Snow all around but the roads are perfectly clear<\/p><\/div>\n

It was now time to face our fears and head up the Fluelapass.<\/p>\n