Gryon-Zermatt

Today was my last day in Gryon. I headed out early to make it to Zermatt. I took the cog train back down the hill to Bex. I only had about 5 minutes to make the train connection in Bex, otherwise I would have had to wait around another hour. To complicate things, I needed to buy a train ticket in Bex as well. I got off the cog train which was 2-3 minutes late (so much for the Swiss running exactly on time) and went into the ticket office. There was one guy ahead of me who I think was getting a refund or something like that and it was taking a while. As I was waiting my train arrived. The guy in front of me finished, I quickly purchased my ticket and ran out to the train. Luckily the train waited at the station for 3-4 minutes, otherwise I would have missed it. The train headed up the Rhone Valley towards Sion. At Sion I caught another train to Visp. Somewhere along the way we went from French speaking Switzerland to the German speaking part. The language of the train announcement suddenly changed, but there was no real geographical boundary like a mountain range or river. I arrived in Visp and had to catch the glacier express (another cog train) to Zermatt. It sounds like a lot of trains, but all of the rides were short.