no WiFi love in Martigny

OK, so apparently I chose the hotel in Martigny without WiFi. I must have gotten it confused with the other place. The room is nice otherwise. So as I type this I am sitting in a McDonalds and eating a McFlurry (thought about espresso, but it's late). The 30 minutes here at the hotspot cost 7 francs, but hey, I gotta check email and get these pictures posted and let you know that we are alive.

Martigny is nice. It is really close to the St. Bernard Pass into Italy and therefore has a museum focused on the dogs who patrol the mountains above us. Had a lot of fun there today. We also visited a great art museum here in town. They were having a special exhibit on Marc Chagall right now. Good stuff. B especially liked the sculpture garden. She kept wanting her picture taken with the statues (not up yet, but soon).

Something the hotel also was without was laundry facilities. We could have paid piecemeal, but that would have been a fortune. Second problem was that every cleaners in town closed at noon Friday and does not re-open until Monday at noon. Apparently this is normal. So today's travel tip to check on local business practices when you are expecting to do laundry over a weekend in a foreign country. We eventually got a tip on a machine at the camp site on the edge of town. Quite a haul, but we now have enough clothes until Wednesday. Have to find something else quick in Chur! And we have a story to tell about hanging out at the camp site.

Oh, almost forgot the Roman amphitheater here. Have to wait as time is expiring! Pictures coming. Really cool.

OK they are done uploading now, so the first three days of Switzerland can now be found here. Tomorrow we head off on the Glacier Express to Chur. Should be quite spectacular!