Hotel Elite Saas-Fee

... br>Deze hebben we eerder tervergeefs getracht te beklimmen in 2004 én 2007.
Helaas ook deze keer zijn we op de helft gestrand...
We hadden reeds 4uur omhoog geklommen van 1620 naar 2050 meter hoogte! Volgens de bordjes zouden we hier echter 2uur over moeten doen; Door de sneeuw was dit voor ons niet mogelijk.
Eerst was de sneeuw nog leuk maar na dat hij tot de schenen en vervolgens tot de knieen was het bijna niet meer te doen ...

... the casualties of the Matterhorn.
Zermatt itself is tiny, with only electric taxis. It is much colder than Lauterbrunnen even though it's on the border of Italy.
Switzerland is strange. It has no language of its own. In Bern, Lauterbrunnen and Zermatt they speak German but in Montreux they speak French, even the train announcements change languages. It gets confusing, so I just stick to greeting people in English most of the time. When I had arrived here I was fuming a bit because I ...

... was small but nice. It was called Le Petit Hotel so everything was ‘petite’! The lift was little, the bar was little, the rooms were little, but it was all very nice. Our room was very comfortable and we thought that it was definitely big enough, it would have been just a little bit bigger than our bedroom at home.

Witek wasn’t feeling very well, he had been a bit sniffly for a few days so we decided to go out for an early dinner then have an early ...

... took Evie back up via the Tram to the top of the Klein Matterhorn just before the last ride at 4:30p. Along the way, they watched a parade of swiss dancers with typical accordian players as they paraded down main street as part of an annual traditional festival.
 
                 

... to climb the Matterhorn the next day. If we had said yes, we would have been awoken at 4:30 for breakfast and began the 7+ hour ascent at 5am. Needlessly to say, we declined. 

Instead, we took the Gondola/Tram/Tram route to the top of the Klein Matterhorn (little Matterhorn) at 3800m for a short ...

On Friday, we continued to "get the most" from our unlimited passes by taking the kids up to 3100m and the top of the Rothorn. Our journey took us up a Cog Railway (entirely inside a tunnel) to a Gondola. From ...

How cool was this weekend?! Talk about middle-of-nowhere type towns... A question that came up at one point was, "Can you imagine living here?" Honestly...no. It's not that I can't see myself trying something like that (it actually seems like it'd be an incredible experience)...but that the concept is so foreign, I have trouble considering what it would actually entail. Oh, good morning! I guess I ...

... there only to find out that the paddleboat place didn't open 'till 1:30 and it was 11:30. Damn. A woman at a nearby hotel told us to try Hilterfingen, so we sat on the sidewalk in the hot sun, waiting for the bus for a few minutes. The bus ride along the side of Lake Thun was gorgeous. The two lakes surrounding Interlaken are both a deep turquoisey-blue color that is incredibly mesmerizing. The bus took us along the side of the cliffs that hang over the lake and through tunnels ...

... wetsuit kept me warm. The next three hours consisted of the following: Sliding, water-slide style, with the river around the rocks, jumping from boulders into the eddy's below (anywhere from 10 to 30 feet), rappelling down short cliffs, hiking through the very serious current, and trying to keep each other from drowning. The highlight was the long (35ft- ish) jump off the cliff, through the narrow chute ...

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