Hotel Lauberhorn Grindelwald

Weekje sneeuw en RELAXEN<br><br>Wat een heerlijke week!!<br><br>Hij begon wat gehaast en het bezoek aan de SEATdealer (knipperend dashboardlampje); was ook niet echt bepaald gepland..<br>Onderweg veel werkzaamheden op de duitsesnelweg wat tot de nodige vertraging zorgde maar .. waardoor we ook van mooie herfstkleuren hebben kunnen genieten.<br>Na 12uur rijden kwamen we in het donker aan in het wel vertrouwde huisje Wengi.<br><br>De volgende ...

... of Gimmelwald. An excerpt from his travel book: <br><br>"The traffic-free village of Gimmelwald hangs nonchalangly on the edge of a cliff high above Lauterbrunnen Valley. This sleepy village has more cow troughs than mailboxes. Many travelers say, 'If Heaven isn't what it's cracked up to be, send me back to Gimmelwald.' Gimmelwald is a community in the rough. Take a walk- you can tour it in 15 minutes. Its two streets are a 700 year ...

... the Montengro Mission to Geneva. I got to see the Ambassador of Montenegro speak AND the Director-General of United Nations of Geneva. On Friday I went to a great lunch with my girl friends and one of my friend's parents who were in town and visiting. It was fun to recap all of the semester's adventures in story form to her parents. That afternoon I had an interview with the project advisor to India at Terre des Hommes. It was a great interview ...

... there, exploring. We bought bread, cheese, and salami, went to a beautiful park in the middle of teh city and had lunch. We met some random Swiss girls that asked us to take pictures with them for an art project. Later on, we took shifts of chilling at starbucks/watching the bags while the other two people got to walk around the city. I loved it! We met a couple shop owners who had really cute shops...one shop had a 12th century ...

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 ...

... The key thing to be able to do is to go down a mountain heel-edge; that's looking down the mountain rocking on your heels to keep a steady pace. Toe-edge you look up the mountains so it makes it hard to see where you're going but is a little easier to balance despite the extra strain on your legs. Our night was spent washing our tonsils with beer and dining back at the hotel on pork steaks. Schnitzel!

... tourist map which every second person seemed to be referring to. Rob bought cargo pants!!! doesn't sound like a big deal but ever since he decided he wanted some we have looked everywhere, like moving house and all you can do is admire boxes, we looked in the windows and beyond of every clothes store we saw. Robs requirements were quite specific, multiple pockets front and back with a mixture of zips and Velcro would be a bonus, they must unzip to go from trousers (its hurts ...

OK, So my plans were to ski on my 40th birthday and I was able to do that but, in the end, that was the only day of the entire trip that I really got any skiing in (tried one other day and it was pretty bad). The reason for this was the weather. Here we were in one of the most popular ski areas of one of the most famous ski ...

... and could carry on a 1 minute conversation with people with a lot of gesturing. Here, my first attempt at asking for directions failed miserably. Well... at least I found my hostel. That's what counts. I like Switzerland keyboards much better than French ones. It's a lot more familiar and I can actually type with decent speed now. Only the "y" and "z" are flipped. The numbers all are where I ...

... I have to go round the long way. Everyone falls asleep except me of course and we roll in at an ungodly hour of 3am. Straight to be for me to get up 3 hours later to take another family back to the airport!!!! Luckily this things only happens occasionally and I have now become immune to any sleep!!! Well that is the end of this update, I have loads of pics to put in and will do so soon. I have started another entry for you to read so watch this space. Laters, Sheff