Eigerblick Swiss Q Hotel Grindelwald

Weekje sneeuw en RELAXEN<br><br>Wat een heerlijke week!!<br><br>Hij begon wat gehaast en het bezoek aan de SEATdealer (knipperend dashboardlampje); was ook niet echt bepaald gepland..<br>Onderweg veel werkzaamheden op de duitsesnelweg wat tot de nodige vertraging zorgde maar .. waardoor we ook van mooie herfstkleuren hebben kunnen genieten.<br>Na 12uur rijden kwamen we in het donker aan in het wel vertrouwde huisje Wengi.<br><br>De volgende ...

... of Gimmelwald. An excerpt from his travel book: <br><br>"The traffic-free village of Gimmelwald hangs nonchalangly on the edge of a cliff high above Lauterbrunnen Valley. This sleepy village has more cow troughs than mailboxes. Many travelers say, 'If Heaven isn't what it's cracked up to be, send me back to Gimmelwald.' Gimmelwald is a community in the rough. Take a walk- you can tour it in 15 minutes. Its two streets are a 700 year ...

Guten Tag!<br><br>I just returned from a night in Interlaken, the capital of extreme sports. I'll recap my week and then delve into those adventures.<br><br>On Monday we officially started our Independent Study Period and had to turn in our take-home final exam. So, I spent Monday morning in the library. I really love going to the library here, especially at the Graduate Institute, because you're in a room full of students, and it is a strangely ...

... did a small but nice hike in the mountains the next day. It&#8217;s crazy how you lose your hiking skills really quickly. I felt like i was going to fall over every step I took. All over the valley, we could see para-sailers in the sky, it would have been awesome to try except it the damage was at least $170 each... bummer.<br><br>http://picasaweb.google. com/lh/photo/_RXGGfa-cjNcaDADRk_4xA?aut hkey=Gv1sRgCMTOwqr-zZGObA&amp;feat=dire ctlink

... a park at Grindelwald, 20k south of Interlaken called Eigernordwand, this place is a true Swiss mountain village underneath the shadows of the mountains surrounding Jungfau and Schilthorn, cows with bells ringing everywhere and getting herded into their barns for the night. The hiking season doesnt start for a couple of weeks so it is nice and quiet, there is only one other tent in the campground.

... up bright and early, ready to tackle the slopes. The bunny slopes! I've already told you about that, so I won't rattle on anymore, but I learned how to ski on the Swiss Alps. OH! And i skied with Bode Miller. You know, the guy that just won a World Cup race in Switzerland ... Google it ... the race was actually on the next hill over ... Lauberhorn (I think). So I skied with Bode Miller. Not necessarily in the ...

... really angry, maybe they are resentful at all us happy non sweating people?) Feeling a little woozy now - both of us- not just me, we scooted down (if you can scoot through a mountain (over a two hour journey actually), and met a nice Indian family (whose daughter insisted she knew 'secrets' about her mum, as we didn't want an international incident we insisted she kept them to herself). (JENN - They lived in Dubai and the daughter just wanted rain, any rain as they never see ...

... to... thus the late updates from us (from Florence now). During the day in Gimmelwald the main attraction is "wandering" as the locals call it. The mountains and valley are criss crossed with these little trails that make it feel like you are the Von Trapp family or William Wallace trekking on little mountain trails across the Alps. The views were staggering and so was the effect of hiking at that altitude. But no matter, we just ...

... are still some gems to inform you about. The snow here is pretty good and we have had some really sunny days. I have given up on my snowboarding, realising that I don't give it enough time in order to improve my skills and skiing is pretty cool anyway. So I will have to make a proper holiday sometime in the future to get my snowboarding knowledge up to a satisfactory level. Now did I tell you all about my trip to Zurich? I think not!!! A couple of weeks ago I ...

Drizzle. Read in morning. Went for short walk. Rain steady, but fairly warm. Afternoon, met Ian. Rode tandem to Thomas' place in Ringgenberg. Lovely path along river, up hills, through trees. Beautiful view of the lake. No one home. Hung out for a while in the rain. Ian left note on a piece of wood. Left tandem, as it was Thomas'. Paul and I walked back to Unterseen. Path wove around homes and fields ...