Balmer's Herberge Interlaken

I will let the pics do the talking....interlaken was absolutely beautiful. also expensive! so we didnt stay long. paragliding= running off a cliff and gliding in the wind! check it out!!!!

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 social scene. We decided to use our only day free here to head up to Gimmelwald. We had heard it had still had great views and was a fraction of a cost of going up to Jungfrau mountain. It took a train, bus and quite a steep cable car but fi...

Bonjour a tous, Jécris encore avec un clavier allemand donc pardonnez moi les fautes. Cela dit, Ariane et moi sommes presentement a Interlaken...nous sommes parties de Berne ce matin. Hier nous avons monté les 344 marches dune tour dans la cathedrale Munster afin davoir une superbe vue sur la ville de Berne et les alpes...cétait tout a fait superbe... Nous avons aussi eu le droit dassister a une session parlementaire au parlement de Berne...on ne pensait pas pouvoir voir ca mais ce fut le cas...

What an insane few days, what an amazing place and what a great bunch of people... Interlaken has definately been the hardest place for me to leave. After a cloudy first day prevented jumping out of a plane, a split second decision had me launching myself off an 800m cliff doing some paragliding. What an amazing view, soaring over the trees with the feeling that mz feet were only inches awaz from the tops of the pine trees below. With clear skies, the following day looked like all was set for...

Hey everyone. This is going t obe 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 adventurous stuff for you to try. We arrived here Saturday night from Florence (where we did see the Duomo Church but failed to see The David) at about 1030pm. At one of the stops in Switzerland where we were supposed to...

I don't even know where to start. I guess you could say that I didn't know how badly I needed a place like Interlaken until I got here. I've been in city after city after city. Who knew that my favorite place on this whole trip would be a small, quiet town in a valley amidst the Swiss Alps? Nick, Matt, Del, and I drank most of the way there. Nick, Matt, and I talked movies, TV, and Simpsons. They were amazed at the amount of film knowledge embedded into my brain. I was able to settle a year l...

So I went skiing for the first time and it was in the Swiss Alps!! My roommates and I caught an early train to Milan, and then took a connecting train to Interlaken. The ride was beautiful! On the train from Milan to Interlaken we passed Lake Como (gorgeous) and passed straight though the Swiss Alps. Interlaken literally translated means "between two lakes". As our train took us into town, it was amazing to see the enormous mountains and then the huge lakes below that looked like glass. At fi...

The rain was still coming down when Jonas picked me up at the Stuttgart Hauptbahnhof on Sunday. He had big news - he might be able to study in Berlin instead of Erfurt. The downside was that he'd probably only be able to spend one night with Christian, and then he'd have to jet back up to Berlin to sort out his uni situation. The drive to Wetzikon (outside Zurich) was straightforward thanks to some online directions, and it took us maybe three hours to make the trip. Christian, his wife Brigi...

I'm here in Interlaken and loving it :) This'll be a shorter, unedited summary of the past couple days...sorry for any spelling/grammar errors! We arrived late at night on Wednesday after spending a long cold night in a small London airport. We had been hoping to head into London to see the sights at night during our 14 hour layover, but the airport turned out to be 25 miles outside of London.. So we flew into Zurich and spent the day there, exploring. We bought bread, cheese, and salami, wen...

Chris and I are now in Interlaken, Switzerland. Were staying at Balmers Herberge, a hostel that has pretty much everything (laundry, bar, restaurant, etc) EXCEPT free wifi. And their keyboards are weird, I cant find the apostrophe or exclamation point haha. It was nice here, but more for single types who like to party. Interlaken was cool - we renteda scooter and rode up to Grindelwald where we had picnic lunch and admired more awesome views. Our train leaves at one thirty today and well get ...