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Interlaken Slideshow
Interlaken
Travel Blogs from Interlaken, Switzerland
Swiss You Were Here
Better Update! Switzerland by far my favourite country. Its absolutely beautiful.I've been going to museums and museums and you see very few alps paintings because theyre so damn pictureperfect already! Haha, Zurich was a nice little-big city with lots ...
Interlaken Switzerland Day 3
Well today was another average day in the beautiful country they call Switzerland. Eric talked me into doing some crazy activity they call canyoning. I wasn't sure whether or not we were going to do it at first but after talking to a couple of the other ...
Alpine Hiking
... for the best anyway, because the round-trip ride to the peak my friend wanted to visit was $90. (Have I complained about Switzerland being expensive yet?) Our next stop was the town of Grindelwald. Grindelwald turned out to be a fairly large resort town. ...
Hiking in Interlaken and the Jungfrau region
We have been spending the last few day's hiking some of the best of the lower mountain hikes Switzerland has to offer. Some of the views we have stumbled across have been magnificent. Glacier lakes, snow capped mountains (Shona's particular favorite), and ...
Interlaken Switzerland was amazing
... and fun so far, but this entry is to finish up the Interlaken chapter. We absolutely loved Interlaken!! We thought we loved all of Switzerland until we reach Geneva for the flight home, and Geneva is very similar to all downtown cities; ...
Heidi, Mary and Ang in Switzerland
Okay, just a quick little update from swiss chalets under the Alps. First things first, Switterland is incredible! I will post pictures soon, but no one will be able to understand the amazing scenery. It is everything you would think it would ...
Interlaken: good for some R&R
... do it was to say I did it. That and I thought it would be pretty and picturesque. Only, here's the thing about Switzerland: the entire country is picturesque. Everywhere you turn is a photo op for a post card. Heck, if you wanted ...
Misty Mountains
... Cinque Terre, then to a hill town in Tuscany (where I'll do day trips around Tuscany and to Florence), and then to Rome. Now I'm really getting excited about going to Italy! One more day in Switzerland, I hope the weather is better ...
Oh Du schöne Schweiz - Oh beautiful Switzerland
... einige Tage zusammen was zu unternehmen. Bis dahin geniessen wir die schönen Tage in Nussbaumen! __________________ Today we drove to Interlaken early in the morning to meet Louise, Jerica & Jamie, three friends from California. From Lauterbrunnen ...
Most Amazing Expedition! - Part 1
This is a top pick! "A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it." George Moore Before I forget, I had forgotten to post my pictures from yesterdays walk around town and my hike with the entry. They are now interweaved ...
Between the Lakes in Switzerland
... needed some cooler temperatures and the peace of the mountains. After referring to the Eurail Map we decided on Switzerland and more specifically, Interlaken. We arrived in town at about 9:00 pm and managed to find our campsite which was just across ...
LUSCERN TO INTERLAKEN, SWITZERLAND
... RV's set up. They also rent out bedding and you can put a refundable deposit down for a kit box with dishes, mugs and cutlery. A bit more than the last place, but we are in Interlaken a very big tourist area. Interlaken River ...
Zurich -Interlaken..Keep looking out the window!
Hello ALL!!!! Switzerland is just fantastic. I cannot even find the words to describe all the beautiful stuff i am seeing here. Its mountains all over the place, tall ones, and so much great flower boxes, and cows with actual bells on them, like i feel ...
Lake Geneva to Interlaken
... to church! Tram Viaduct Camp fire next to the river at the campsite Lauterbrunnenn, in the mountains south of Interlaken, Switzerland 14 July, Thursday Start point: Bern - Swiss Capital End point: Lauterbrunnenn, in the mountains ...
Break Time...
... 't agree and thinks she is even more crazy than before. We did also see a billy goat and are rapidly falling in love with Switzerland. Tonight we walked back into the main town area and we both bought amazing shirts with the Swiss Cross on it. we are ...
To the "Top of Europe"!
This is a top pick! ... this morning is worth the cost of the meal. I walk around town and take a bunch of pictures then head back to Interlaken as I am exhausted from the lack of sleep. Two days ago I wrote that I was lonely. From that point on ...
Soon to be home
... we sighed over the beauty of the Alps. There was a dairy farm up ON the skihill. Don't they have developers here in Switzerland?? It is now snowing, a heavy wet snow and we're organizing ourselves to return home. The van is staying here in Interlaken, ...
Stupidity in Interlaken
... any seats or any descent food. To get from Southern France, Menton it took us four trains and 12 hours to get to Interlaken, Switzerland. We were lucky we made the direct train from Menton to Milan (€30 each, dep 10.28am), that morning as ...
Skydiving in the Swiss Alps (that's right, kids)
... were there and had a look like he would go Scarface on them if they so much as moved). Finally, we made it to Interlaken, which got its name from being situated between two lakes up in the Alps, at about 9. The skydiving people weren't picking us ...
My NOTHING Day!
This is a top pick! Today I planned to do nothing but rest. I wrote this whole entry about "My NOTHING Day!" on the train back to Frankfurt tomorrow. Then I got home and accidently deleted it while deleting my old entries that had been copied here from my Outlook drafts ...
Interlaken
... had to return to someday (and actually stay longer than 1 night). The place is a living postcard. Bordered in mountains, Interlaken is a breathtaking place. We enjoyed beautiful weather one day, hiked around Ginderwald, ate apple strudel in the sun, ...
Interlaken
... did live up to expectations. Travel Tip: Scenic mountain towns may lose of their charm when the mountains are hidden behind fog. Interlaken is not a very pretty town on its own. We had decided to head there because we heard that it was a great spot ...
May 25: Interlaken*
... start really look at the maps and such and realize we cant go to Como as it is not on the train line to Interlaken where i want to go in Switzerland. so then i look and realize that Lugano isn't either. so now i ask T when her return flight is from ...
My First Kiss!
This is a top pick! This morning I wake up and it's raining. I head down to the breakfast room and the TV is showing the view from the top of the various mountains where there are restaurants and touristy stuff. There isn't a view at this time. The snow is coming down hard ...
A Swiss Christmas
Christmas to me has always been a time spent with family and friends. A day of enjoying nice food, drinking lots of beer and having a good time with the people I love. Today though I’m a world away from loved ones and the festivities back home. ...