Hotel Residence 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 ...

... really helpful for my project. <br><br>On Saturday at 5:50 am I left my house to go to Interlaken for a girls weekend. I let my friends plan the trip, since I usually end up planning most stuff, which is how my weekend came to be as it was. My friends used this thing called "Couch Surfing" (it's a really interesting concept, worth taking a few minutes to look into), and traditionally when you couch surf you stay at someone's house for free. Well ...

... in the basement floor...random. ha! Then we caught a train to Interlaken and arrived pretty late (I wanted to shoot myself for getting on the train so late at night...because we couldn't see the scenery on the way to Interlaken!) But we've been here for two days now, and we leave tomorrow night. The night we arrived we ran into some of our friends who were staying in the same hostel....it was quite frankly, one of the worst ...

... and another day of biking around the entire city, we set off at midnight to drive on the Autobahn to Bern. So instead of spending the night on a sleeping train, we took turns driving and sleeping (thank you Alex for the wonderful neck pillow!). <br><br><br><br>We drove into Interlaken around 9, into GORGEOUS views of mountains and lakes (thanks Jess!!). Because we were pooped from almost no sleep, we spent most of the day sleeping ...

... gear you will have to join the carriage at the end of the train so be prepared to walk a bit as these trains are long but luckily with such a large group of us the carriage was empty and we had it all to ourselves. Once we had made it into Grindelwald we arrived to sunny skies and a percussion of instruments celebrating the International Snow ...

... to use that word, so pants to all the Aussies) into shorts. Having spotted a man wearing such pants and noting he had the option of ¾ leg pants as well, that was our target. As it is seen as quite in robs words "gay" to wear ¾ length pants, and Rob had always outright refused to even consider this option before hand, this concept confused me. However he informs me that Europeans all dress "like girls" &amp; he might try them out if the mood takes him. Once found, and for a ...

... and it was 50 degrees. Normally, snow is a meter deep and people are able to ski down hiking trails to their chalets. This year people were using the hiking trails to HIKE and skiing consisted of going down ribbons of artificial snow surrounded by mud and grass. The pictures here can give you an idea of the situation.

... them to be, and the basic punctuation marks such as periods and commas are which familiar reach as well. However, sometimes I still get confused and use the now practiced French way of typing. I wonder if I'll even be able to type with an English / North American keyboard when I get back home. Internet is expensive here... even more so than Paris. However, at least I can type with a decent speed. :)

Hi All, Well I have not forgotten to update you on my trip to Switzerland, but now is not the time as I am abit busy preparing for a transfer and it is snowing busckets down here so no doubt it will be snow chain weather!!! Any how some of you wanted my contact details so here they are: Grund Apartment Grindelwald 3818 Switzerland Home phone number 0041 338535963 Work Mobile Phone 0041 763030109 There you go, Laters, Sheff