[Idyllchat] Swiss safety for teenagers

[Linda Leon]

Eleanor,
   
  You all will have a wonderful, easy time in Switzerland, I'm sure.
   
  I was there with my husband this past summer, and three years ago we brought our then 10 year old daughter with us.  Both trips were with Untours.
   
      We saw loads of Swiss children of all ages riding the Post Bus by themselves in our Swiss area of Hasliberg.

   

  It was so safe there that people even parked their bicycles outside where ever they went, and didn't lock them up; apparently they are never stolen!
   
  When we left our camera at a spot where we'd picnicked on a hike, later down the path a Swiss man came up to us and asked us if it was our camera.  He'd been bringing it to the nearest train station's lost-and-found.
   
  When we lost our rail pass we had assumed someone on the train would have found it and used it for themselves, but with Untours' help we notified the train station near our home there.  They located it and called our landlord who was away on vacation and then called us at the apartment there to pick it up! 
   
  Everyone there seems to pitch in to make everything come out all right.
   
  (In case you think we are especially loss-prone, I should explain that we were in Switzerland for seven weeks altogether for those two trips, and on the go traveling on trains to and from our Untours apt. daily.)
   
  My only concern about your plans for your teenagers' independent travel is that I understood that the Family Pass that Untours uses with the Swiss Rail Pass to enable children to travel free in Switzerland is only valid if the children are in the presence of the adults with the regular Rail Pass.  The train conductors checked ours frequently when we had our daughter with us.  You should check it out first with the Untours office here in the U.S.  
   
  Linda
Eleanor Fleming <ellie1953 at comcast.net> wrote:
  We expect to go on our first Untour in June 2007. We will be staying 
in Switzerland's heartland with two teenage grandchildren. We would 
like to allow the kids some freedom to explore on their own. How safe 
is it for a 15 year old girl and a 16 year old boy to travel to the 
next town on the bus, etc. alone? Do cell phones work in that area?
Eleanor Fleming
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