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Interlaken Slideshow
Interlaken
Travel Blogs from Interlaken, Switzerland
The Golden Pass Train and Montreux
... The public service bus along the lakeshore drives straight back to Montreux. But after being ripped off for coffee and water it was time to get out of the place and take the much faster railway route back to Interlaken via Lausanne, Bern, and ...
Skiing and Driving the Perfect Recipe for Xmas
Hi all and a big merry xmas and a happy new year, Just a quick update today as I am off driving for the next 5 days after I have sent this, off to Flims, Zurich and Zermatt with a bus full of clients. Well xams has come and gone for another year ...
Mike’s 40th Birthday – May 22, 2009
... a day to remember. On the eve of the 22nd after planes, trains, and automobiles, we found ourselves in Interlaken, Switzerland sitting atop a 12-story hotel sipping the local brew, Rugenbrau. The hotel is by far the tallest building in ...
Interlaken: Welcome to Switzerland
... our hearts. But nothing- let me repeat- *nothing* has been as awe inspiring... as breathtaking... as stupefying as Switzerland. We checked into our hostel which is situated on a campsite surround by mountains with a brilliantly green river lazily ...
Heart of the Swiss Alps
For my chance to see a bit more of the Swiss countryside, we opted to stay in central Switzerland located close to some of the biggest ski fields in the country. Lauterbrunnen, a heavily populated area during both summer and winter months, did not have ...
NYE turns into NYD
Well Happy New Year, Crazy times ahead and crazy times just past, well I hope you all had a top NYE whatever you did, not to make you jealous or anything but mine was pretty fab, 1000 metres up in the alps, stood on a ski slope with a clear ski, cold ...
The Alps at last!
... mountain involved several trains and cable cars - the Swiss seem very good at both. First we take the train from interlaken up Lauerbrunnen - and we finally see snow-capped peaks! It really is lovely - complete with a waterfall. ...
Skiing In The Sunshine
Hello all, Well as per usual I am in the same internet cafe in Interlaken to update you on my progress and as usual despite trying to get a different PC I always get the one with the caps lock that will not switch off!!! highly annoying I am sure you ...
Travel Day to Vals
... left Gimmelwald today and headed to Interlaken where we could get a working payphone and book our stay at Therme Vals in Vals Switzerland. Turns out the only opening they had for this weekend was tonight so after a bit of shopping in Interlaken's hotel ...
On top of the world.
We arrived in the lovely town of Interlaken mid afternoon and were absolutely blown away by the huge alps that surrounded us. Absolutely breathtaking. We were staying in a lovely hostel called Balmers which had a great happy hour, a kitchen and an awesome ...
Berner Oberland: where Adventure awaits
... apologize." I think to myself, well, that's nice, but does that mean you're just going to leave us here forever, between Interlaken and Spiez, then? Well, to make a long travail short, we finally get inched into the Spiez station on the main line, ...
Finally I Find an Internet Cafe
Hi Everyone, Well after being in Switzerland for over 1 week now I have finally tracked down an internet cafe. I have uploaded some images for you all to look at. The weather here is fab we got snow fall on Sunday evening and it didnt stop until ...
Interlaken
What's up guys, We just got to Switzerland after 22 hours on 6 different trains. It was one hell of a day. This is probably the prettiest place we've been so far. The mountains and lakes are amazing and we are going rafting tomorrow and canyoning ...
The Swiss Alps!!!
This place was amazing - we went swimming in lake Thun and then the next day went up the Jungfraujoch mountain and went toboganning in the snow and then went hiking in the ...
Train Station, Blue Rivers and Paragliders Haven
... gondola down, again walked all the way to Lauterbrunnen, but this time on the actual walking path and not the road. I got into Interlaken fine, and reading the signs, easily walked to Interlaken West trainstation. The hostel was not to far away, but I had ...
Check Out The Photos
Hi Guys, just to let you know that i have uploaded a few images in the previous entry for you all to view. have a great weekend, ...
Quiet time, friendly cats and getting lost.
... and modern so we were very comfortable. I left Witek in bed and went to explore the town by myself and get some lunch. Interlaken was much bigger than Zermatt but is similarly surrounded by mountains. It is famous for all of the adventure sports it has ...
Cutting myself on Swiss Knifes
Interlaken Interlaken is the place in Switzerland where everybody goes to hike in the mountains and para glide and sky dive, etc. I was never going to the hike or para glide or sky dive so I just came here to look at the mountains. Also all the cows wear ...
Another Day Another Snow Fall
Hello there from sunny/snowy Interlaken, Well I have again been sent down the mountain on another useless trip to buy more stuff for our transfers. I dont mind cause it gets me out of resort and means I can waste time in the cheaper internet cafe's, ...
Comp Special
Hi Everyone and dont I feel special so many of you are logging in to read my updates, or it could just be my mum making me feel popular!!!! Well since we spoke last time I have been pretty ill with a virus along with everyone else that I work with, so ...
On Top of the World and Loving It
... strike. WTF. That country is messed up. Honestly, if it wasn't going to cost me $1600 to fly from Geneva, I'd stay in Interlaken and forget about Paris. I went back to the hostel to figure out my options. I found an EasyJet flight for E200 and nothing ...
Interlaken = Beautiful
... two lakes, the Brienz and Thun. This town of 9,000 people is stunningly beautiful. When you think of Switzerland, Interlaken is probably that place that comes to mind. Exiting the train station you are surrounded by beautiful mountains, ...
Loving the Swiss Alps
... small enough to overlook, in a country that is small enough to overlook, but it was well worth the price of admission. Switzerland is an expensive country, but those Francs were put to good use. Interlaken is in a valley, between two glacier fed ...
Seeing Switzerland in a whole new way
... kind of a short entry as it seems like we are having less and less time to get on the internet. But, we are in Interlaken, Switzerland right now at a Hostel called Balmers. The city itself is very small but is right in the Alps and is full of ...
Interlaken
We left Bern this morning for Interlaken. It was another smooth, very picturesque train ride. By the time we arrived in Interlaken (Ost - the eastern station) and checked into our hotel it was lunch time. We looked around the old town part of Interlaken ...
Off to Switzerland!
Caught a train to Interlaken to meet up with Lindsay and Esteban. After we checked into our hostel we went to dinner at Hooters (really random). When we got back to the hostel we prepartied on Kelly Mochos (not sure on the spelling, ...
Jungfrau
... snowed and there is a light coating of snow everywhere in Interlaken. We left on an earlier train this morning to get from Interlaken to Grindelwald. The whole trip from Interlaken to Jungfrau takes about 2.5 hours if you don't stop off anywhere. We got ...
extreme sports central!
... a live band in the nightclub... yeah, thats right, a nighclub... not even just a pub! this club is the place to be in Interlaken, pretty awesome that its part of the hostel... i was only here for a really short while, but i just fell in love with ...
Swizterland
Hello, Switerland is truly beautiful; The weather is really warm, surprisingly. Interlarken is an amazing place, surrounded by snow capped mountians. Yesterday we went up the top of Eurpoes higest peak, Jungfrau ...
Fun in a canyon
... hours talking about everything that you could imagine. It was a good end to a great and adventerous day in the canyons of Switzerland. The next day we got up and wanted to go visit some of the high mountains that surrounded us. Unfortunatly the ...