Hotel Central Continental Interlaken

An early start as we intended to go to Lauterbrunnen and then catch a later train to Lucerne. We caught a bus from Lauterbrunnen to Trummelbach Falls and were the only ones at the falls for a while. It was so quiet that we could hear the cow bells. Trummelbach Falls is actually 10 glacier waterfalls inside a mountain in Lauterbrunnen Valley. This drains the water from the 3 major mountains which we saw on Friday-the Monch ...

... into another backpackers. This one was very new and we had bunk beds and 2 single beds pushed together and a bathroom plus a view of a large mountain with snow on it, which we thought was the Jungfrau. We decided that we would go for a walk to a small town called Bonigen but it had started to rain so we just decided to explore Interlaken. We realised that Interlaken was a destination for Japanese tourists as near the casino, the expensive ...

... view changes dramatically. We descended and conitnued on our journey where we bumped into a cool, yet delightfully quirky aussie girl called Mia. She suggested we go off road up the hills to to cliffs and walk across there. Having fared rather poorly from our previous, much simpler of climbs, we were hesitant. But Mia insisted and we obliged. And I am glad we did. We ventured up the hills and found a stream, leading from one of the falls. It was an amazing walk and was well worth ...

Oh refreshingly sweet to celebrate the middle point of our journey (days 57/58) in the centre of 'central' Europe in the middle of the most neutral state on the globe, Switzerland. More importantly the Berner Oberland which gave us the best scenery of the trip to date.

Our first night was spent in Lucerne, slightly to the east of the above mentioned area. Just for one night, to break up travel. A nice small town with a pretty cool bridge and the sight of the ...

... super fit if I lived here, for I would always want to be doing outdoor activities. After such an exhilirating work out session, I had Muesli with milk and banana for breakfast at the hostel. I am pretty much addicted to Muesli now. I took my second shower within about two hours in the sketch little closet shower and put on my professional clothes for our walk to the Victoria- Jungfrau Hotel. It was quite the site to see twenty three college students walking through the ...

Jule, you will be happy to know that I have your pebbles from Switzerland... will try to post when I get to a cheaper country. I've been on a real low over the last 2 days, as my travelpod entries will probably show. But I think I'm coming out of it now, knowing that I'm heading back to Germany. Travelling alone is starting to bore me now, and I'm hanging out for some company that the group tours afford, even though they also have there negatives. There is no ...

... was so neat to be in a place with buildings dating back to 1453, for example. Although I didn't get into the Muenster, I did see the Rathaus which was also quite impressive. If I remember correctly, it dated back to about 1501. And that is about all I have to say about Basel. I plan on going back to Switzerland again sometime, but next time I'll go better prepared: a travel guide and food. Lots of it. Until next time, Danielle

... go and watch the Rugby after they had skied for the day. So I investigated the options and found the only place to be showing the match would be a place in interlaken called Hooters. Now for those of you who have not heard of Hooters it is quite a simple concept in which a bar serves beer and food and shows sport on the TV's along with this all the girls that work there where hotpants and skipmy little tops to show off there ampe busom ...

... I had on me was for Balmer's. We marched through town, I was buzzing hard enough and in comfortable enough company to have no problem stopping every person I passed to hold up my brochure and yell, "Do you know how to get to this place?" Ten minutes later, we were at Balmer's, had to wait a half hour or so to check in, and were able to score a fifteen bed room all to ourselves. Without Emily and Kim, six of us went for a walk. It was unbelievably quiet and calm. Not a soul was ...