Hotel Gletschergarten Grindelwald

... werden we verast met een dik pak sneeuw!! <br>Een wandeling van Riederalp langs Blausee, vervolgens door de heuvel-bos-rug naar Rieder Furka was een wandeling van 4 uur, met onze schenen in de sneeuw, was een goede start van onze wandel vakantie:)<br><br>Zeer fijn waren onze mooie nieuwe waterdichte en dus warme bergschoenen!<br><br>De volgende dag stond ondanks de nieuwe sneeuw welke de nacht gevallen was, wederom de Eggerhorn op het ...

... zig-zag. Stones called schindles sit like heavy checkers on old rooftops, awaiting nature's next move. These stones protect the slate from the violent winter winds. Gimmelwald's biggest building is the school in which 2 teachers share one job. There's nothing but air between Gimmelwald and the rock face of the Jungfrau a mile or two across. Kick a soccer ball wrong and it ends up a mile below on the Lauterbrunnen Valley floor. Gimmelwald ...

... atmosphere. And the libraries I frequent have tons of really interesting books on the topics I am studying, which is always a plus. And, it's pretty cool to walk around sporting a UN library badge. I always feel really important just walking through UN security like I have an important international mission that I need to research. Tuesday was also spent at the library, but I had lunch with a friend<br>from school who is also studying in ...

We were then supposed to take an overnight train to Bern Switzerland but I managed to **** that up royally and booked the train to Berne Germany, which is in the opposite direction... Jon was not impressed... and I only realized this 1 hr before our 10 pm train. So after hours of trying to rent a car (impossible during Oktoberfest) we got really lucky and found a car that needed to be returned to Switzerland anyways. So after a full day of ...

Today was a rest day. Where better to do it than the most beautiful most relaxing place I've found so far on this earth. Grindelwald Switzerland. We've made this stop several times before. Kenzie is an old friend of mine and she married Mandel and moved to Switzerland. It's great to see them and their growing family each time we come. We took a train from Zurich to Grindelwald and plan to bike out of here.

... place, but hey, it's still cool. Or at least I think so! After skiing I was pretty much wiped out ... skiing is a lot of work, especially when you shouldn't be doing it because of your current injuries, but hey ... I wasn't going to pass up a chance to learn to ski on the Swiss Alps! I turned in my rental equipment, I was in too much pain to even consider a second day of skiing, and then I went and took ...

... she also talked the legs off a table as her mum says she doesn't get to talk to many people at home) we also saw a St Bernard dog, with the genuine barrel, took photos, but the owner, the train driver got the hump as the dog was getting the attention she thought she should get, but she just drove a train, on tracks - her dog had a barrel and everything!!! Then we went back to the site..... 12/8/07 Day 14 The day of under achievement. Today we were suppose to go into Bern, I ...

... alot of breaks and more video or pictures. At one point, we even stopped in this patch of grass higher on the mountain to lay down and look at the view of the valley and mountain tops. If you know Erin and I, we of course passed out. So we wake up from sleeping and hear these voices. About 30 ft from us are two guys talking and we stand up to look at what they are doing just as one of the guys takes off running with this parachute ...

... an early morning transfer to Zurich then a very late departure to pick up, so instead of sitting around the airport all day reading and generally doing not a lot with my life, I decided to hop a lovely double decker train (the geek in me) and take the 12 minute train ride into the centre of Zurich. You know it is amazing at how pathetic our train system is in Britain compared to that of Europe. In Switzerland the trains actually arrive bang on time and leave ...

... continuous. Evening, Maria and Franck had wine and cheese dinner for Ian, Monika, and us. Fifteen kinds of cheese; two wines. Red was an excellent pinot noir. Gold medal winner in all-Europe contest. Loved whiskey cheese, cognac cheese, garlic cheese the most. All wonderful, though. Maria baked a wonderful bread to go with it. After, their dog howled for us. Had whiskey, cognac, coffee. Then to bed!