Grindelwald, Switzerland Travel Blogs

We went to Grindelwald today, the popular tourist and ski town. It's hard to think of adjectives to describe it. There's the Eiger and about fifty other mountains, glaciers, waterfalls, and valleys with more wildflowers than you could count I'm 100 ...

... , easy on the gas 15 July, Friday Start point: Lauterbrunnen (SE if interlaken) End point: Innertkirchen Via: Grindelwald Odom(Km): 46.71 Moving(hrs.mim): 4.35 Ave(Km/h): 10.2 Total Ascent(m): 1299 Max Altitude(m) 1974 ...

... , separating ourselves from every other tourist who visited the Jungfrau that day, we set off down the alpine trail to Grindelwald. Despite the threatening weather and the late hour, the trip was mostly uneventful. We stopped to collect some water from ...

... honest, this city is exatly as i expected. big banks, flash shops on the high street and expensive. wow!!! this is all grindelwald (and the jungfrau region) needs to descibe it. while getting the train from interlaken to here we saw the huge mountains ...

... relaxing in Prague and then it was off to Switzerland for a ski trip. We stayed in a quaint little village called Grindelwald, which is about an eight hour drive from Prague. Grindelwald is a great little village with beautiful scenery of the Alps ...

... just skip over this entry since it is nearly indescribable. However, although I haven't even bought a postcard because it won't do Switzerland justice, I will try to describe a little of what we've seen. As I said before, the mountains are gargantuan and ...

... was a rest day. Where better to do it than the most beautiful most relaxing place I've found so far on this earth. Grindelwald Switzerland. We've made this stop several times before. Kenzie is an old friend of mine and she married Mandel and moved to ...

... , and we havent paid a toll!! which reminds me I am supposed to buy a vignette, oops!! We booked into a park at Grindelwald, 20k south of Interlaken called Eigernordwand, this place is a true Swiss mountain village underneath the shadows of the mountains ...

... it was sooooo worth it! The views here have been amazing. We only hope that our photos can do them some justice. Our time in Switzerland is coming to an end, but we don't want to leave - the people are great, the animals are gorgeous & friendly, and ...

On Wed Sep 3rd, I decided to go to Grindelwald. It is amazingly beautiful. I took a lift all the way to the top of neighboring mountain (have forgotten the name). The views were even more spectacular there.

woke up at 5a to the window shut the horrible smell of feet again and the girl across from T trying to wake the guy up above her and her standing right by Ts head and not appearing to be really quiet. all this of course completely irritates me and i ...

tbc.....

... will be snow chain weather!!! Any how some of you wanted my contact details so here they are: Grund Apartment Grindelwald 3818 Switzerland Home phone number 0041 338535963 Work Mobile Phone 0041 763030109 There you go, Laters, Sheff

... and because of this very expensive, it is £5 for a value meal, now where is the value in that!!! Like everything is Switzerland it is bloody expensive as I will now demonstrate. Down the local Coop you can buy a block of ordinary cheese produce of the ...

Thousands of stars sparkle on the surface of the snow, full moon washes the world blue the earth is shining as I snow shoe to a distant hut for fondue and gluwein (hot spiced wine) with 20 complete strangers. The cold air slaps me awake, despite its ...

... you don't get put off by all the long words and paragraphs. After my trip to Austria (yes mum I am still working in Switzerland) things have calmed down a little bit but there are still some gems to inform you about. The snow here is pretty good and we ...

... them up the train and proceeded to block the aisle. Reason being because someone could steal them, I was like this is Switzerland, they just don't steal stuff (except Nazi gold and Jewish property!!!) however, British mentality and all that aside he was ...

wow Grindewald is amazing! we took a train from Lucerne to Interlaken, then another train from Interlaken to Grindewald. we are up at some of the tallest peaks in all of the Swiss Alps where at the very top there is snow year round. we were going to ...

Oh My God, three updates in one day, how bored am I!!!!! Well actually I am using the internet at work, which your not supposed to do, but hey sometimes you have to live life on the edge!!!! I hope you guys liked my two updates today and found time ...

... that Grindelwald and Interlaken were quite so far apart. I was dropped off in Interlaken and quickly began my foot journey to Grindelwald. (I wasn't acutally staying in the town center of Grindelwald I was up on some mountain). So I began my journey up ...

... today which is not the most pleasant experience when you are camping. Still, undettered we made our way to the small town of Grindelwald which had been highly recommended by many people and is one of the big skiing centres in winter. To be honest I found ...

Well we arrived Grindelwald and I was amazed by the setting of the town. It is warm and welcoming... However we lived quite far away from the ski lift and my suffer begins...

... weekend ! We decided to stretch our legs with a cable car ride and "quick" hike up towards the Grindelwald Glacier. This being Switzerland, everything is done very efficiently. There are hundreds of hikes mapped out very clearly, with signposts as to ...

Really! I did! I skied! I only fell down twice, but one of those times was trying to learn how to parallel turn, as opposed to the "pizza" turning I had been doing, and was rather good at. My instructor, a young Swiss man named Matthias (cute, but not ...

i'm playing catch up in updating entries and pictures...here are some pictures of our field study to geneva and from where we went skiing in the swiss alps ( i stole them since i didn't want to have my camera with me while i was skiing...which was ...

... Metz to our first stop at Grindelwald campsite in the Bernese Oberland, took cycles but although useful in other locations, Grindelwald was far to steep for our cycling abilities. Went hiking on two mountain trails and visited the Glacier Gorge. ...

OK, So my plans were to ski on my 40th birthday and I was able to do that but, in the end, that was the only day of the entire trip that I really got any skiing in (tried one other day and it was pretty bad). The reason for this was the weather. ...

... . The train took roughly three hours and goes from Basel to Bern then onwards through Interlaken and up the mountains to Grindelwald; the price of the journey was 98 CHF. The journey was comfortable but if you have snowboarding gear you will have to ...

... for those who deviate from the standard red Geranium theme. There's no way it's a coincidence. Only 3 hours from Lausanne, Grindelwald seems like a different world. Tonight would be our first night in the German part of Switzerland and it showed. I went ...