Hotel Spinne 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 ...

... 3 families: von Allmen, Brunner and Feuz. With 130 townsfolk sharing hte 3 surnames. To keep prescriptions and medical records straight, the doctor in nearby Lauterbrunnen goes by birth date first, then the patient's name."<br><br>It is definitely one of those places where if you were able to located some brocade curtains and stich yourself a pinafore, you could twirl around, channel Maria von Trapp, and belt our a rousing rendition of ...

... 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 ...

... to leichtenshtein... very small country... very quick visit.....just long enough for a photo with the pirate flag.<br> Then into Switzerland and the Swiss Alps... Lots of oooos and ahhhhs as the scenery is breath-taking... more mountains .. more crystal lakes .. unbelievable... then we arrived at grindelwald.. about 6.5 hours travel all up including a few stops for coffeee/tea/ piddle and smokes.... great ...

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 ...

... tourist office, the market, and the rest of the shops that were closed for the day. We set up shop on a stone bench in front of a modern-looking fountain, checked out the hikes we could do tomorrow and got VERY excited about what was to come. There are all sorts of busses and trains and cable cars and gondolas that go up from Grindelwald onto the mountainsides surrounding this tiny little quaint town, but we decided we'd rather save the money and ...

... born with a backpack and sturdy hiking boots. It makes one realize how out of shape the average American can be when you see hordes of people trekking up and down these mountains, then realize that many of them do this nearly every weekend as their hobby. Sunday was another great weather day. Given our efforts the day before we took it a bit easier. We took a cable car to Mannlichen, basically just a ridge sitting at 7,300ft that overlooks Grindelwald on one side and the ...

... on a lesser trip up to Schillthorn from which you can view the Jungfrau for a third of the price. First we decided to go and see Trummelbach falls which is a fifteen minute motorbike ride up the valley. Unfortunately the sun hadn't reached our part of the valley so our fifteen minute ride left us shivering. Trummelbach falls are quite incredible as the water has eroded its path inside the mountain. What is even more incredible is that ...

Welcome to Paradise on Earth! I cannot even begin to describe it. I am still as captivated by the sight of the snow-covered Jungfrau as I was when I first discovered Interlaken two years ago. As the name suggests, Interlaken is a town located between two lakes, Thun and Brienz. Nested in a valley 567 meters above sea level, it offers a splendid view of surrounding mountains, including the ...