Funny Farm Hotel Interlaken

Switzerland- A few days after Florence, we left for Switzerland to go skiing in the Swiss Alps. It was Jessica's twenty first birthday, and we all went as a group to celebrate. We took a train to Brig, which was the most adorable little mountain town. The train ride was very scenic, it was amazing to see mountains of that size. The buildings looked like they came from Disney land with brightly colored roofs and cool architecture. Connor and I walked around the town and took pictures beside t...

Well... I'm gonna start of with this... One word can describe this place "beautiful", wait... i'll try it again... "PPEERRFFEECCTT!!!!" As we moved from Venice on the long train ride here, we went from nothing too special to some scenic places as we headed north of Italy heading towards the Swiss border. As we got close to the border i started to see some mountains building up. Now coming from Adelaide, Australia - I'd tend to say they were very very reasonable sized ones, as we dont have any...

No time to rest!!! UP YA GET!!!! :o) We were up at 8 to go canyoning! Heh - i'm looking forward to this one. We waiting outside Funny Farm where the instructors picked us up. "Outdoor Interlaken" was the company taking us. They dorve us up the road to some shed where we all grabbed our gear. Wetsuite, 2 jackets, wetsuite socks and a halfmet! All 11 of us then got back into the van and we headed off. My name was "Pirate" on the helmet - so thats what i was known as for the day!! - "AARRRRGGHH ...

We went to Interlaken for a weekend trip. It was filled with Canyon Jumping for me, a spa trip for some other girls, Hooters, and seven girls to one room: We left Thursday at 6pm for an 8 hour bus ride to Interlaken. We watched Super Troopers, I am Legend, and Beerfest on the way there. Crossing the Swiss boarder was actually really easy, there was no showing of passports or anything...welcome to the land of neutrality. We got in at 3am and had to get our room keys and get into our rooms. we ...

Dear Friends and Family, Yet another amazing opportunity has landed itself in my lap! My good friend Heidi who I met in Guatemala offered me a 400 dollar first class ticket to Europe....last Tuesday night. It was an offer I could not refuse! So after 36 hours of travel I have found myself gazing at the Swiss Alps from the dorm room at the Funny Farm hostel. I was originally going to fly into Italy, but it did not work out, so I ended up flying to Zurich, Switzerland and taking the train to In...

We took a night train from Rome and arrived the next morning in Bern. We took a few hours to check out Bern before heading to Interlaken. In Interlaken we stayed at Funny Farm backpackers, a great hostel converted from a former 4 star hotel. It was a little quiet there in October and a little cold but we still some met some other travelers and had some nice sunny days. The owner had a huge St. Bernard dog named splif who came and went as she pleased, pushing open the heavy doors with her huge...

We arrived in Nice at midnight and no hostel would have a bar of it. We had to splash out and stay in a hotel for the night. Ow! We had a lookie around Nice the next day and hung out at the beach fully clothed, people watching, because we had stored our packs while waiting for the train out. geeks. Our train to Interlaken was meant to be 11 hours but there was "an accident" somewhere along the way and we were almost 5 hours late. We actually had to take a train all the way around the top of f...

I have been super busy the past week and a half celebrating my birthday and taking a long weekend trip to Switzerland with Alison! Last Wednesday on my birthday I had a lot of fun, didn't stay out too late because I was tired and realllly full from dinner, but anyway.. The restaurant that we went to was SO AMAZING, they give you complementary champagne and huge plates of appetizers!! I had been there on a previous visit to Florence, so I knew it would be great :) Their pasta is handmade every...

I decided to go to Interlochen and spend a few days there. I did an awesome Canyoning tour while I was there and just hung out at the pool.

I guess Switzerland is known as the "midwest of Europe" for the attitude and niceness of the people. I found this to be exceptionally true. After an 8 hour bus ride, I was anxious to see all of what Interlaken had to offer. It is the extreme sport capital of the world, offering skiing, skydiving, canyon jumping, night sledding, and paragliding. Even though Joey did skydiving through the Swiss Alps, I took the less extreme version and went paragliding. It was absolutely amazing and made me wan...