Hotel Cabana Grindelwald

... face. Australian would never let that happen, we're too safe, you'd probably need a harness.
After about 40 minutes the snow disappears and your on an easier path deep in the mountains. It was arduous though. All up the trip was only about 3 hours but my toes were sore from all the downward motion and I desperately needed to go to the toilet. It was beautiful the whole time, and it was nice to get away from the toursists. I was the only one on the trail with noone else ...

... 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 style, we think that it was probably 40 minutes for any non-Swiss person. Bonigen was so quiet, hardly anybody was about but it was a good opportunity to see different styles of the ...

... had the Swiss speciality icecream). We looked through what was mainly outdoor shops and then caught the train back to Interlaken. We had gone all day thinking that it was Saturday but realised it was Friday when just before we went to bed, I checked the weather forecast for the next day. I also found out that it was going to rain most of the day, so we decided that maybe we should postpone our trip up to Lauterbrunnen.

... for 20 Swiss Francs and then we found a supermarket to buy food. Guess what they had – gloves for 7 Swiss Francs- Tara who is the real economist has given me a hard time since about not getting the best deal.

We had an early night as we were planning to get up early to go to the Jungfrau- providing that the weather was clear- there was a TV screen in the backpackers which showed views from webcams on the Jungfrau and Schilthorn.

... there were a few people who though it was pretty funny that I went all the way to Switzerland to hike in the Alps and have never done the same in the Rockies. Looks like I have some hiking to do when I get back home.

The pictures will do a much better job of telling the story than my words.

Also, this is the first place in my entire trip where I did not meet a single Australian. Whats up?

... via Milano and under the mountains to Interlaken. Just bye the bye, if you are ever driving in Italy dont try and save money by avoiding the autostradas, they are there for a very good reason!! Now we thought we had seen tunnels, Switzerland has topped the lot, 20k, 10k, 5k,s are run of the mill, and we havent paid a toll!! which reminds me I am supposed to buy a vignette, oops!! We booked ...

... for a long, long time. I was very pruny when I got out, but I felt so warm and wonderful, despite the lack of bubble bath! Then I watched CSI dubbed in german, which was entertaining, because while a couple of the voices actually sounded like the characters, a couple of them were REALLY off, which made me laugh. Sara sounded like Catherine ... Nick sounded like ... Marvin Gay ... it was amusing. Next day ...

... longer and full of more death defying jumps. We booked our canyoning trip for thursday afternoon, so we spent the beggining of the day strolling around and renting bikes around Interlaken. A glorious time, although now I realize the thing to do is rent scooters here, and that would have trumped the bike. But it was nice, we went to the smaller but closer lake and rode around. So we met with our canyoning group in the afternoon. We ...

... resist using loud voices to communicate across the train. Additionally, they chose to make their ethnic music audible to all passengers, and the kids decided to make sounds as if they were dogs. This was definitely worse than Cat Boy from Germany. But, despite the not so exciting end to my day, I was proud to have had the chance to venture up to the Jungfraujoch. As I said to friends and family, the "Top of Europe" would likely be as close as I would ever get to the top of a mountain.

Hello Intrepid Travel Followers, Well like last time it has been a while since I have updated you on all the things that have happened in the wonderful world of Switzerland. I hope you all enjoyed the last instalment, this time I have created a few for you to read and split them up so that you don't get put off by all the long words and paragraphs. After my trip to Austria (yes mum I am still working in Switzerland) things have calmed down a little bit but ...