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Grindelwald Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Grindelwald, Switzerland
Day 2: Wake in Switzerland
... breakfast and a very welcome stretch of the legs. After that it was non-stop to Chalet Zollohus in a Swiss town called Grindelwald (which, yes, is probably now mostly recognised as the name of a wizard in the Harry Potter series). Approaching the chalet, ...
I Skied! I Skied!
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 ...
pictures from geneva and grindelwald
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 ...
Switzerland 2007
... through 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 ...
Back in Grindelwald
After arriving back from the Jungrau we hade a coffee at Central Hotel Wolter then bought a few souvenirs before heading back to the hotel for a rest. Went out for dinner at 6.30pm, eating again at Central Hotel Wolter where we tried the Lämpi Rösti ...
Departing Grindelwald
Had breakfast at 8.30am then walked to the train station to buy our tickets to Interlaken Ost for our trip to Bern. We checked out of the hotel at 10am and caught the 10.50am train to ...
trapped in grindelwald
we have 2 rooms here, not interconnecting so expected miss m to be rather unhappy about that. so when our phone rang in the midflemiddle of the night it was not unexpected. however, tirns out that bailey had vomitted in her bed. I let kelsey ...
Hiking in the Alps
Finally made it to the Alps for the day and went for a hike! It was like being in a postcard! ...
The Worst Winter in a Generation
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. ...
Travelling from Basel to Grindelwald
... nbsp; 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 ...
Day 3: Lausanne to Grindelwald
... 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 ...
A Day of Adventure Hiking!
Ok! So Fraser and I left the place in Baden early Sunday morning to catch a train to Grindelwald for some awesome hiking. The train ride took about two hours but we were both asleep for most of it (unfortunate since the views are incredible). When we ...
A Sparkling Switzerland
... ;It also offered views of the Jungfrau, Monch and a dozen other dramatic mountains. Would definitely recommend Grindelwald to future Switzerland travelers. We were aware that Switzerland was going to be expensive, however our first shock was ...
Up to the top of Europe
... the cafeteria (at about 2pm by this stage). Then into the trains for the 35 minute trip back down to the beautiful village of Grindelwald and the long coach trip back to Zurich. We arrived back to our hostel sometime after 8pm. So 'twas a long day, a ...
Wow, what a ski day... 1 1.5 feet of powder
Sunday was snowing all day... <Monday was great snow almost 2 feet of fresh snay... Forecast looks good for the rest of the ...
Gliding gently into 2009, Alpine Style....
... time around, the budget for the ski trip had been upped to allow for something more indulgent, and a ski trip to Grindelwald in Switzerland was settled upon - after all, how can any self-respecting skier ski the world and not include Switzerland on ...
Thank you, God!
... we got to Alpiglen, the trails that we could see were very muddy and wet. We think we made a good decision. We arrived in Grindelwald around 5:15 on the train. (Can you only imagine what time we would have gotten here if we'd hiked part way down in ...
Ski Weekend #1 (Wengen, etc.)
... summer. We finished up in the area where the race had been held, called The Lauberhorn, and then skied back down towards Grindelwald. We grabbed some supplies (mostly beer) and made our way back to the hostel, intending on returning to the town of Wengen ...
Day 3: Long Hike Around A Big Mountain
... upon a tall mountain. But first we had to get there, which involved three trains and a cable car. We took trains everywhere in Switzerland but the following is the only thing I recall of them. One of the Guiders was also mother to two of the Guides. She ...
The passes are closed!!!
Mountains of Europe 12-05-13 Andermatt to Grindlewald Today was to be a nice easy 50 or so mile trip on the bikes then a relaxing day on a train trip to the "Top of Europe" by train. However this easy day turned into a bit of a rather long day of well ...
chf2 each for a wee
... boo hoo hoo. today was modtly a travelling one. boarded our train, tgv lyria, from paris to basel in Switzerland. change trains, pay chf2 each for the privelege of weeing in a swiss dunny, then onto our next train to interlaken, then ...
Swiss Alps - A Winter Wonderland
... across the station, parked the car, put all our warm clothes on, bought our tickets, boarded the 3.35pm train to Grindelwald, ascended to approximately 1000m and disembarked at what looked like a winter wonderland. I have never seen anything like ...
Grindelwald to Interlaken
We decided to go to Interlaken, where we'd meet up with Dallin for dinner. We walked down to the train station and caught a train to Interlaken Ost ...
Time to hike the Swiss Alps
We had always dreamed of hiking in Switzerland, however unfortunately we had never quite worked out where.... So we had spent about 4-5 nights in France researching where to go, how to get there and away easily. Once we had narrowed down our options the ...
Our new home
Spectacular. Our home, the view, everything. 1 metre of snow and more on the way, this is picture perfect Switzerland (without the cows, who are still in the barn). This is so far different to Melbourne in every ...
Zip Line in the Alps
Hey guys, I have a video of me zip lining in the Alps. SOOOOO pretty! I will put up pictures, but that was pretty much my whole day, going up the Alps, Zip Lining, then Hiking half way down the mountain then stopping before my legs gave out!! Goodness!! ...
Day 15: Grindelwald
Jaimie was still feeling under the weather today and this was a perfect place to get some rest. One of the optional excursions was to catch a traditional train up to Joungfraujoch, 3500 metres up. It was a little expensive for us considering we've been ...