Backpackers Villa Sonnenhof Interlaken

I left Dublin aright (I honestly have no recollection of what day or how long ago - guess i'm finally in the vacation mood:)) and got into Frankfurt Germany. I had been there before and really was in no mood to stay there - it's just a financial city to me. I thought I would have to spend the night there but I walked right to the train station in the airport and they said I could leave in 20 min for a train to Interlaken Switzerland where I had decided I wanted to go. So I got the ticket. I w...

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 bells which makes them look cute and has turned me off beef for a while.

The weather

The weather impacted me quite a lot. Arriving the day on the train the water was very bright blue and the mountains were all clearly se...

The day started off beautifully. I woke up, looked outside, and could see the sun shining. Perfect. My cycling clothes could stay dry when I pack them away for the week. Did I have any doubts that I wouldn't get what I needed, as in a dry morning? Aaaaa...A little bit! Even with all that I've experienced and as much faith that I have in things working out the way they should, I still have, in the back of my mind, that little bit of doubt. How can I not? The revelation that you do create your ...

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This story starts with KB and I on our first and only sleepin car experience... From Rome to Interlaken... it was interestin, fun and well we made it! There were 6 of us in the sleepin car, it was tight, but at least me got a bed, we both had the middle beds... there was an old lady on the train that was funny... when she snored she sounded like a tiger purring! I think KB enjoyed it!
We arrived in Interlaken early in the mornin just like Carcassonne... It was still ...

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We had booked onto the Golden Pass Panoramic train but woke up to rain so thought it mightn't be very panoramic. Despite the rain, it was a scenic trip. We were heading for Interlaken and had to change trains twice. Greg was concerned that the guy at the train station had booked us on these trains and there was only 5 minutes between trains (this is the Greg who has us at the train station an hour before it goes). We didn’t have to worry, in true Swiss style, you changed trains on the s...

Woke up to a cloudy day but it didn't look too bad on the webcam from the Jungfrau so we decided to catch the train to Grindelwald and decide from there whether we went further. As we were on the train, the sun came out so we decided to go up to Jungfraujoch which is called "The Top of Europe". From Grindelwald, we got a cog train to Kleine Scheidegg then changed for the final cog train which would go to the top. Some of the people get off to hike at Klein Scheidegg and the mountains are very...

We let the girls sleep in and then broke the news that we were going to have a quiet day in the hostel because it was raining and that they had to do a few hours of homework. Looking at the screen in the hostel, you could see that it was snowing heavily on the mountains.

By afternoon, the rain had turned to drizzle, so we decided to catch the bus to Bonigen which was a quaint small town on Lake Brienz. The girl at the hostel had said that it was a 20 minute walk but in true Swiss styl...