TRAVEL STEVES SWITZERLAND -- In the Alps, you will share the trail with cows. Picture credit Rick Steves / Tribune Media Services Rick Steves
Walking high above Gimmelwald, the best Swiss village, with Olle, whom teaches farm young ones in the village college, i usually feel a student that is wide-eyed.
We meet a cow that is massive atop a fairytale ridge, and Olle tells me that even cows become victims of this hills, occasionally wandering off cliffs.
"Alpine farmers expect you'll lose a number of their cows in 'hiking accidents,' " he states. "today cows are double the extra weight of cows one hundred years ago . with no less stupid. The others follow if one wanders off a cliff in search of greener grass. ...