Originally Posted by
Doug64
At a campground in Switzerland we left our bikes cabled to that wooden fence and most of our gear stowed in the tent for a day. We walked the 3 miles to town, hopped a train and took it 300 km to a place I have wanted to see since I was a kid. Riding there and back would have taken us an extra week. I thought the risk was low and worth taking. The campground manager did hold our computer for us, and all the important papers and cameras were with us.
Switzerland might have changed in 40 years but when I was there in 1973-4 it was a place where mothers left their babies in their carriages lined up outside a Migros market and a jewelry store break in would rate a banner headline in the Geneva Tribune.